Funding History

Project Leader or Co-Project Leader for the following projects:
  • Soil water movement in selected Alabama soils (1977-1982)
  • Water transport phenomena in the soil-plant system (1977-1982)
  • Movement and retention of water and solutes in selected southern region field soils (1977-1983)
  • Water and heat movement in soils (1982-1987)
  • Spatial and temporal variability of soil characteristics and material fluxes in field soils (1983-1988)
  • A university program to study spatial and temporal variability of soil temperature, moisture and surface soil properties as they relate to science issues of global habitibility (1984-1986)
  • The collection of data on the movement of selected pesticides used in conservation tillage in Decatur soils of the Tennessee Valley of Alabama (1986-1987)
  • Spatial and temporal variability of soil temperature, moisture and surface soil properties (1985-1988)
  • Multiphase chemical transport in porous media (1988-1991)
  • Water flow and chemical transport in Alabama Soils (1987-1992)
  • Spatial and temporal variability of soil properties and effects on land use (1988-1993)
  • Multiphase chemical transport in porous media (1989-1991)
  • Evaluation of mixing and plume penetration depth at the groundwater table (1989-1992)
  • Physical and numerical model study of the movement and mixing of dense leachate plumes in groundwater in homogeneous and heterogeneous porous media (1991-1993)
  • Subsurface transport and mixing of dense leachates near the groundwater table (1992-1994)
  • Surfactant enhanced transport of nonaqueous phase liquids in heterogeneous porous media (1993-1995)
  • Surfactant effects on multiphase contaminant transport in porous media (1993-1995)
  • Laboratory enhancement for multiphase transport and environmental restoration studies (1993-1995)
  • Graduate Assistance for multiphase transport and environmental restoration studies (1993-1995)
  • Subsurface transport of hydrocarbon fuel additives and a dense chlorinated solvent (1993-1995)
  • A classification system to relate water and solute transport to soil physical, chemical and biological characteristics and landscape position (1993-1998)
  • Investigation of DNAPL flow across porous media boundaries with contrasting pore size (1996)
  • Fate and transport of selected hydrazines and their decomposition products in the subsurface
  • k-S-P models in mixed-wet porous media
  • Investigation of the entrapment and surfactant enhanced recovery of nonaqueous phase liquids in heterogeneous sandy media (1997-1999)

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    Financial Support

    Financial support for the above projects was received from:

     

  • Research Grant-in-Aid, Auburn University
  • duPont de Nemours & Company
  • Cooperative State Research Service (CSRS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University
  • Gulf Oil
  • Soil Conservation Service (SCS)
  • NASA
  • EPA
  • Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
  • Department of Defense (DOD)
  • Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES)
  • Alabama Engineering Experiment Station
  • Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE)
  • The University of Michigan

    • Total amount of funding: 2.42 million dollars (as per 1March 1996)

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