Soil Distrurbed by Municipal and Agricultural Waste Loads from Natural Storm Disasters: Impact of Nitrogen Trace Gas Emissions in Eastern North Carolina Due to Hurricane Floyd

0000488皮尔斯这是一个支持研究的奖项，旨在促进我们对土壤中氮素生产、转化和运输过程的了解，这些过程是通过研究1999年9月飓风(指定为飓风弗洛伊德)造成的极大扰动而实现的，该飓风对北卡罗来纳州农村和城市地区的环境质量造成了不利影响。导致该奖项的提案是根据NSF拨款提案指南(NSF 94-2)中的SGER(探索性研究小额补助金)特别指南提交给NSF的。这项研究将与根据美国国家科学基金会第98-03746号补助金进行的研究协调进行，在该研究中，调查者正在模拟田间应用的条件下研究污泥改良土壤中一氧化氮通量的意义。预计SGER支持的研究结果将为进一步研究生物强化和加强土壤净化的潜力提供基础，这些土壤已被从地下储罐泄漏的汽油、润滑油和柴油污染，或以其他方式进入碳氢化合物可能污染地下水的土壤。***

0000488 Peirce This is an award to support research to advance our understanding of processes responsible for nitrogen production, transformation and transport in soil that were made possible by studying the extremely large disturbances caused by the hurricane in September of 1999 (designated as Hurricane Floyd) that adversely impacted the environmental quality of rural and urban regions of North Carolina. The proposal leading to this award was submitted to NSF under the Special Guidelines for an SGER (Small Grant for Exploratory Research) in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (NSF 94-2). The research to be conducted under this SGER will be coordinated with research being conducted under NSF Grant No. 98-03746 in which the investigator is studying the significance of nitric oxide flux from sludge-amended soils under conditions that simulate field application. Results of the research supported by the SGER are expected to provide the basis for further research on the potential for biologically augmenting and enhancing the decontamination of soil that has been polluted by gasoline, lubricating oil and diesel fuel that has leaked from underground storage tanks or otherwise entered soil where the hydrocarbons pose a potential for contaminating groundwater. ***