Penn State Intercom......July 12, 2001

University receives $1.25 million
Department of Energy grant

A three-year, $1.25 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) has provided funding for researchers at Penn State and collaborators at two other universities to further study biological iron(III) reduction for remediating uranium-contaminated soil and groundwater.

The grant represents a continuation of funding from the DOE Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Program for Bill Burgos, associate professor of environmental engineering; Brian Dempsey, professor of environmental engineering; and George Yeh, provost professor of civil and environmental engineering at University of Central Florida (formerly at Penn State). Eric Roden, associate professor of biology at University of Alabama, is a new collaborator.

This October, Burgos and Yeh will be hosts for an instructional workshop on reaction-based modeling at Penn State. The goals of the workshop are to discuss the current types of models available to simulate biogeochemical experiments, and to formally train attendees how to use the software packages developed by Yeh.

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