Environmental Restoration

SERDP and ESTCP’s Environmental Restoration program area supports the development and demonstration of innovative technologies to characterize, remediate, and scientifically manage contaminants in soil, sediments, and ground, surface, and waste water.

Active Projects List
Project Title Start Date

Developing Quantum Chemical and Polyparameter Models for Predicting Environmentally Significant Parameters for New Munition Compounds

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Project ID: ER-1734
Principal Investigator: Dr. Dominic Di Toro, University of Delaware
SERDP Nov 2009

Full In Silico Calibration of Empirical Predictive Models for Environmental Fate Properties of Novel Munitions Compounds

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Project ID: ER-1735
Principal Investigator: Dr. Paul Tratnyek, Oregon Health & Science University
SERDP Nov 2009

Development of an Environmental Fate Simulator for New and Proposed Military-Unique Munition Compounds

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Project ID: ER-1736
Principal Investigator: Dr. Eric Weber, U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)
SERDP Nov 2009

Fate of Plant Tissue Associated RDX in Surface Soil

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Project ID: ER-1412
Principal Investigator: Dr. Charles Reynolds, U.S. Army ERDC/CRREL
SERDP Dec 2004

Mobility of Particulate and Dissolved Munitions Constituents in the Vadose Zone at Operational Ranges

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Project ID: ER-1690
Principal Investigator: Dr. Melanie Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
SERDP Mar 2009

Fate and Transport of Colloidal Energetic Residues

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Project ID: ER-1689
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Fuller, CB&I
SERDP Jan 2009

Improving Understanding of the Fate and Transport of Munitions Constituents to Enhance Sustainability of Operational Ranges

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Project ID: ER-1688
Principal Investigator: Dr. Herbert Allen, University of Delaware
SERDP Mar 2009

New Approaches to Evaluate the Biological Degradation of RDX in Groundwater

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Project ID: ER-1607
Principal Investigator: Dr. Paul Hatzinger, CB&I Federal Services
SERDP Jan 2008

Measurement and Modeling of Ecosystem Risk and Recovery for In Situ Treatment of Contaminated Sediments

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Project ID: ER-1552
Principal Investigator: Dr. Richard Luthy, Stanford University
SERDP Jan 2007

Assessing Mercury and Methylmercury Bioavailability in Sediment Pore Water Using Mercury-Specific Hydrogels

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Project ID: ER-1771
Principal Investigator: Dr. Victor Magar, ENVIRON
SERDP Apr 2010

Predicting the Fate and Effects of Resuspended Metal Contaminated Sediments

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Project ID: ER-1746
Principal Investigator: Dr. G. Allen Burton Jr., University of Michigan
SERDP Apr 2010

Mechanisms and Permanence of Sequestered Lead and Arsenic in Soils: Impact on Human Bioavailability

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Project ID: ER-1742
Principal Investigator: Dr. Nicholas Basta, The Ohio State University
SERDP Nov 2009

PAH Interactions with Soil and Effects on Bioaccessibility and Bioavailability to Humans

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Project ID: ER-1743
Principal Investigator: Ms. Yvette Lowney, Exponent
SERDP Oct 2009

Bioavailability and Methylation Potential of Mercury Sulfides in Sediments

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Project ID: ER-1744
Principal Investigator: Dr. Heileen Hsu-Kim, Duke University
SERDP Jun 2010

Determining the Bioavailability, Toxicity and Bioaccumulation of Organic Chemicals and Metals for the Development of Eco-SSLs

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Project ID: ER-1210
Principal Investigator: Mr Roman Lanno PhD, Ohio State University
SERDP Feb 2001

Tracking the Uptake, Translocation, Cycling, and Metabolism of Munitions Compounds in Coastal Marine Ecosystems using Stable Isotopic Tracer

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Project ID: ER-2122
Principal Investigator: Dr. Craig Tobias, University of Connecticut
SERDP Mar 2011

TNT Incorporation and Mineralization by Natural Microbial Assemblages at Frontal Boundaries between Water Masses and in Underlying Sediments in Coastal Ecosystems

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Project ID: ER-2124
Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Montgomery, Naval Research Laboratory
SERDP Mar 2011

Rhizosphere Bacterial Degradation of RDX, Understanding and Enhancement

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Project ID: ER-1504
Principal Investigator: Professor Stuart Strand, University of Washington
SERDP Apr 2006

Characterization of Residues from the Detonation of Insensitive Munitions

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Project ID: ER-2219
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sonia Thiboutot, Defence R&D Canada - Valcartier (DRDC)
SERDP Mar 2012

Dissolution of NTO, DNAN, and Insensitive Munitions Formulations and Their Fates in Soils

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Project ID: ER-2220
Principal Investigator: Dr. Katerina Dontsova, University of Arizona
SERDP Mar 2012