EREF All Scholarships

Scholarship awards below are listed in chronological order, most recently awarded first:

$36,000	EREF Scholarship Grant to Susan De Long in pursuit of her doctorate degree at the University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas (2006). Ms. De Long's research topic focuses on using gene sequencing for enhancing landfill biodegredation.
$24,000	EREF Scholarship Grant to Monica N. Danon-Schaffer in pursuit of her doctorate at the University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada. (2005). Ms. Danon-Schaffer's research topic focuses on mass balance evaluation of polybrominated diphenyl ethers - system models and upstream source characterization.
$24,000	EREF Scholarship Grant to Shahzeen Zahid Attari in pursuit of her doctorate degree at Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2005). Ms. Attari's research topic focuses on the excess of packaging in the United States - interdisciplinary approach with implications of waste minimization, environmental justice and social equity.
$24,000	EREF Scholarship Grant to recent Ph.D. graduate Solenne Grellier, to assist her post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Chicago(2005). Ms. Grellier's research will address both the dynamic water balance and geotechnical stability of bioreactor landfills. She hopes to develop a field validated coupled flo-mechanical model suitable to asses the performance of bioreactor landfills.
$36,000	Fiessinger Environmental Science Scholarship Grant to Nicole Dawn Berge in pursuit of her doctorate at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla. (2004). Ms. Berge's research focuses on determination of optimal environmental conditions and kinetics for in-situ nitrification and denitrification, and the development of an implementation strategy for in-situ nitrification and denitrification at field-scale. Report to come Press Release
$36,000	Fiessinger Environmental Science Scholarship Grant to Bryan Fleet Staley in pursuit of his doctorate at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C. (2004). Mr. Staley's research focuses on mechanisms controlling the production of non-methane organic compounds and microbial community structure during refuse decomposition. Report to come Press Release
$36,000	Fiessinger Environmental Science Scholarship Grant to Michael Sander in pursuit of his doctorate at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. (2003). Mr. Sander's research focuses on soils, specifically the mechanisms of sorption hysteresis of hydrophobic organic compounds in natural and engineered sorbents and the applicability of hysteresis to contaminant sequestration. He will be developing a mechanistic explanation of hysteresis in natural organic matter (NOM) and explore ways in which hysteresis in NOM can be employed to advantage in site remediation. See reports on his studies below. Paper Published 2005 - Charcoal Adsorption Sites Paper Published May 05 - True Sorption Hysteresis Report - Summer 2004 Press Release
$36,000	Fiessinger Environmental Science Scholarship Grant to Mira Stone Olson in pursuit of her doctorate at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (2002). Ms. Olson is focusing on ground-water remediation, examining how chemotaxis (the movement or orientation of an organism along a chemical concentration gradient) affects the transport of bacteria for bioremediation through low permeable materials. See reports on his studies below. Report - Summer 2003 Press Release
$36,000	Fiessinger Environmental Science Scholarship Grant to Alexander Orlov in pursuit of his doctorate at Cambridge University, United Kingdom (2001). Mr. Orlov's Ph.D. research concentrates on new methods for groundwater clean up. See reports on his studies below. Report - Summer 2003 Report - Summer 2002 Press Release
$36,000	Fiessinger Environmental Science Scholarship Grant to Richard Statom in pursuit of his doctorate at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado (2001). Mr. Statom is conducting his Ph.D. research on the evolution of leachate and hydrology of landfills. See reports on his studies below. Report - Summer 2004 Report - Summer 2003 Report - Summer 2002 Press Release
$36,000	Fiessinger Environmental Science Scholarship grant to Molly Costanza-Robinson, a graduate research associate at The University of Arizona (2000). Dr. Costanza successfully completed her Ph.D. program in May 2001 and is now working as a postdoctoral Research Specialist at Northern Arizona University. See a report on her studies below. Report - Summer 2001
$36,000	Fiessinger Environmental Science Scholarship grant to Robert Klee in pursuit of his doctorate at Yale University (1999). Dr. Klee obtained his Ph.D. in 2001 and has entered the Law School at Yale, focusing on Environmental Law. See a report on his studies bellow. Report - Summer 2001
$36,000	Fiessinger Environmental Science Scholarship grant to Kerry Howe, P.E., in pursuit of his doctorate at the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana (1998). Dr. Howe graduated in October 2001, and accepted a faculty job at the University of Albuquerque, New Mexico the summer of 2002. See a report on his scholarship studies below. Report - Summer 2002

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