| Agency |
Project Title |
Amount |
Duration |
Role |
| Nelson Foundation |
Bioelectrocatalytic Processes for Biodiesel Production |
$5,000 |
7/19-6/21 |
PI |
| National Science Foundation |
Sustainable Development-Research Experience for Teachers |
$575,391 |
6/17-5/20 |
SP* |
| NASA EPSCoR |
Advanced Bioelectrochemical Module (BEM) for Waste-to-Electricity Generation during Long-term Space |
$750,000 |
9/16-8/20 |
Co-PI |
| Department of Defense – Air Force Civil Engineer Center (DoD – AFCEC) |
Basic Expeditionary Airfield Resources (BEAR) Energy Saving Technologies (BEAR-EST) |
$753,911 |
9/14-8/18 |
PI |
| Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. |
Acquisition of LCMS and HPLC |
$80,000 |
1/18-12/19 |
PI |
| DoD – AFCEC |
Basic Expeditionary Airforce Resources (BEAR) Energy Saving Technologies (BEST) |
$100,000 |
7/17-12/18 |
Co-PI |
| GOED, SD |
Rationalization of CRUDE Process for Enhanced Biofuel Production |
$35,000 |
7/18-6/19 |
PI |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) EPSCoR |
Conversion of Space Crew’s Wastes into Biofuel Using Extremophiles |
$48,082 |
1/15-10/17 |
PI |
| DoD – AFCEC |
Solid Waste Conversion to Diesel |
$980,390 |
9/14-8/17 |
Co-PI |
| RESPEC Research Grant |
A Novel Approach to Bioconversion of Natural Gas to Liquid Fuel via Non-Methanotrophic Genera Rhodobacter sphaeroides |
$10,000 |
9/16-8/17 |
Advisor |
| Government of India and Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (GoI-IUSSTF) |
Harnessing the Potential of Extremophiles for Enhancing Lignocellulose Degradation and Electrohydrogenesis towards Microbial Electrolysis Cell Applications |
$39,233 |
10/16-9/17 |
Advisor |
| GoI-IUSSTF |
Development of a Recombinant Thermophilic Geobacillus sp. for Enhanced Biofuel Production |
$15,267 |
9/17-3/18 |
Advisor |
|
GoI-IUSSTF |
Identification of xylose transporters and co-enzyme specificity for xylitol dehydrogenase in Kluyveromyces marxianus |
$5,000 |
10/17-11/17 |
Advisor |
| GoI-IUSSTF |
Development of NADP+ dependent xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) in Kluyveromyces marxianus |
$39,233 |
11/16-10/17 |
Advisor |
| GoI-IUSSTF |
Developing in-house catalytically efficient cellulolytic cocktails derived from Geobacillus sp. and thermophilic fungi for cost effective conversion of lignocellulosics into sugars |
$15,267 |
09/16-3/17 |
Advisor |
| ASM-IUSSTF Indo-US |
Anaerobic Microbial Processes for Energy and Environment |
$5,000 |
12/14 -1/15 |
PI |
| NSF |
Acquisition of a Combined AFM and Fluorescence Microscopy System |
$282,942 |
09/13-8/15 |
Co-PI |
| NSF IUCRC |
Biopolymers and Biocomposites from Extremophile Microbes |
$98,000 |
1/12-12/14 |
Co-PI |
| NSF IUCRC |
Enhanced Lignocellulose Conversion Using DUSEL Thermostable Enzymes |
$99,808 |
6/11-6/14 |
PI |
| DoD AFRL |
Hydrogen Production by Lignocellulose Degrading Thermophiles |
$200,000 |
12/10-12/11 |
Co-PI |
| South Dakota Board of Regents (SDBOR) |
Development of an overexpressing thermostable cellulase strain using a bacterium isolated from the Homestake Gold Mine, Lead, South Dakota |
$82,463 |
8/09-8/11 |
PI |
| NSF |
Acquisition of a High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope for Research and Education |
$631,982 |
8/09-7/11 |
Co-PI |
| U.S. Geological Survey |
Fate and Transport of Biogenic Uraninite in the Environment |
$16,825 |
3/11-2/12 |
PI |
| Nelson Foundation |
Generating preliminary microbial data on the former Homestake Gold Mine to support two NSF proposals |
$5,000 |
7/10-6/12 |
PI |
| Department of Energy (DOE) |
Subsurface uranium fate and transport: integrated experiments and modeling of coupled biogeochemical mechanisms of nanocrystalline uraninite oxidation by Fe(III)-(hrdr)oxides |
$339,015 |
9/7-3/11 |
Co-PI |
| U.S. Geological Survey |
Protein-based mechanisms of uranium detoxification in subsurface bacteria |
$16,771 |
3/10-2/11 |
PI |
| NSF |
Acquisition of a kinetic phosphorescence analyzer for uranium-focused research and education |
$48,750 |
10/8-9/9 |
PI |
| NSF |
Biogeochemical cycling of heavy metals in Lake Coeur d’Alene sediments: The role of indigenous microbial communities |
$330,000 |
8/4-7/9 |
Co-PI |
| Nelson Foundation |
Molecular and biochemical studies on arsenic detoxification by hyper-resistant Micrococcus sp. |
$5,000 |
7/8-6/9 |
Co-PI |
| KL Energy Corporation |
Characterization of DUSEL extremophiles |
$35,250 |
3/9-10/9 |
PI |
| U.S. Geological Survey |
Permeable reactive bio-barriers for uranium removal: Role of iron minerals on uranium fate and transport |
$14,855 |
3/7-2/8 |
PI |
| South Dakota NASA EPSCoR |
Microbial Diversity in the Deep Subsurface Environment of Homestake Mine, Lead |
$20,000 |
8/7-7/8 |
Co-PI |
| South Dakota EPSCoR |
Setting up bioprocessing research labs |
$25,000 |
8/6-8/7 |
PI |
| Nelson Foundation |
Biodegradation of cellulosic materials under thermophilic conditions |
$5,000 |
8/6-8/7 |
PI |
| SD Governor’s 2010 Grant Program |
Generation of energy from renewable biofuels using microorganisms from deep subsurface of Homestake, Mine, Lead, South Dakota |
$55,196 |
8/6-8/7 |
PI |
