The following are some examples of our funded projects:
US Department of Agriculture: Fate and Transport of Viruses at Great Lakes Beaches - Field Observations and Modeling (Mantha) 2015-2017
US Department of the Interior (USGS): Improving and Providing Restoration Strategies for Nearshore Great Lakes Waters (Mantha) 2013-2017
Ottawa County, Michigan: Ottawa County Water Resources Study - Phase 2 (with S. Li, CEE and D. Lusch, GEO) 2014-2017
National Science Foundation: CyberSEES: Type 2: Towards Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems: A New Adaptive Sampling and Data-Enabled Monitoring and Modeling Framework (with X. Tan, Elena Litchman, Hayder Radha and G. Xing) 2013-2016
US Department of Agriculture: An Integrative Decision Support System for Managing Water Resources under Increased Climate Variability (with Stephen Gasteyer, J. Bartholic, others) 2013-2017
Indiana Department of Natural Resources: Modeling Remediation Scenarios for Bacterial Contamination at the Jeorse Park Beaches, East Chicago (Mantha) 2013-2015
US Army Corps of Engineers: Modeling the Impacts of Chicago River on Lake Michigan: Dynamics of Dissolved Oxygen, BOD, Suspended Solids, Chloride and Temperature in the Nearshore Region (Mantha) 2011-2013
NOAA: Modeling Nutrient and Bacterial Transport in Regional Great Lakes Watersheds Using a Physically-Based, Distributed Hydrologic Model (Mantha) 2011-2017
US Department of Agriculture: Modeling Nearshore Bacterial Fate and Transport in the Manitowoc River Plume in Lake Michigan (Mantha) 2012-2013
US Department of the Interior (USGS): Interactions between Sunlight, Suspended Sediment and Indicator Bacteria in the Nearshore Region (Mantha) 2009-2013
NOAA: Linking Statistical and Mechanistic Models for Improved Beach Closure Forecasting (Mantha) 2009-2013
NOAA: Improved Understanding and Forecasting of Viral and Bacterial Sources and Transport in the Great Lakes (with Joan Rose, Fisheries and Wildlife, MSU) 2010-2013
USDA: Developing Nutrient, Sediment, Flow and Temperature Estimates for Fish Community Condition Prediction Across the Agricultural Regions of Michigan and Wisconsin (with Amirpouyan Nejadhashemi and Jon Bartholic, MSU) 2009-2010
NOAA: Influence of Combined Sewer Overflows on Cryptosporidium and Giardia Accumulation on Sediments and Impacts on Water Quality (with Joan Rose, Fisheries and Wildlife, MSU) 2004-2009
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Center of Excellence for Great Lakes and Human Health (with NOAA scientists and Joan Rose, Fisheries and Wildlife, MSU) 2004-2009
NSF (Biocomplexity in the Environment): Quantifying the Role of Mixing Interfaces in Biogeochemical Cycling in a Contaminated Aquifer-Wetland System: Linking Hydrogeological, Microbiological and Geochemical Processes (with Jennifer McGuire, Univ. St. Thomas and scientists from USGS) 2005-2009
NSF: A hierarchical and patch dynamics paradigm for modeling complex 3D groundwater systems across multiple scales (with Shu-Guang Li) 2005-2006
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality: Schoolcraft Bioremediation Project (with Mike Dybas, Shu-Guang Li, Tom Voice and David Long 2002-2005
