Recently Funded Projects
Additional projects are currently funded by the Urban Water Consortium and the Stormwater Group.
Faculty Projects
- The role of environmental buffers in potable water use | Olya Keen, UNC-Charlotte
- Tracing groundwater contamination near and away from coal ash ponds in North Carolina | Avner Vengosh, Duke University
- Nathan Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill | How, where, when, and why: Defining Eutrophication Related Trends in Water Quality for the Middle and Lower Cape Fear River Basin
Student Projects
- Racial Disparities in Access to Clean Water in North Carolina: Communicating Health Risk to Private Well Owners | Frank Stillo, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Assessing Resilience among Vulnerable Populations Impacted by Flooding in Eastern North Carolina: A Mixed-Methods Approach | Jasmine Hayes, East Carolina University
- Distribution and Concentrations of Antibiotics in Rural Wells and Streams | Austin Gray, UNC-Greensboro
- Decontamination of Heavy Metals in North Carolina Groundwater Using Manganese Oxide Nanofibers | Yaewon Park, NC State
- Nutrient Dynamics of the Lumbee River Basin post-Hurricane Matthew: Closing the data availability gap for basin residents | Justine Neville, NC State
- The Impacts of Multiple Environmental Stressors on Fish Populations Native to Estuaries along the Eastern Shore of the United States | Casey Lindberg, Duke University
- Managing Nitrogen Removal Capacity in a Stormwater Wetland | Regina Bledsoe, East Carolina University
- Understanding how land use characteristics affect the prevalence of antibiotic resistant, virulent E. coli and host-specific markers in watersheds with and without swine CAFOs | Elizabeth Christenson, UNC-Chapel Hill
- Field testing of mesocosm-scale derived nitrate removal models to verify water quality improvement potential of restored coastal forested wetlands | Jack Kurki-Fox, NC State
- Computational Development of Composite Packed-Bed Nanofiltration for High-throughput Desalination | James Peerless, NC State
- Kirsten Studer, UNC-Chapel Hill | Howard Weinberg, Faculty Sponsor | Impact of Hospital and Patient Discharges on North Carolina Surface and Drinking Water Quality as Measured by Iodinated Contrast Agents
Past Projects & Research Results
WRRI has funded research since the 1960s. A complete list of projects and associated results and report information can be found below. Research reports are housed and accessible through the NCSU Technical Reports Repository.