Year 1 Project Summaries

Thrust 1: Hazard Mitigation

• PR1 – Microbial Ecology of Stimulated Ureolytic Biocementation
• PR2 – Upscaled Modeling of MICP for Field Deployment
• PR3 – Stimulation of Native Bacteria for Bio-cementation at Field-Scale Treatment Depths
• PR4 – Liquefaction Mitigation via Microbial Denitrification
• PR5 – Microscale Modeling of Carbonate Precipitation

Thrust 2: Environmental Protection and Restoration

• PR6 – Electrokinetic Transport for Mineral Precipitation and Soil Remediation
• PR7 – Microbially Enhanced Iron-Modified Zeolite Permeable Reactive Barrier
• PR8 – Rehabilitation and Restoration of Degraded Soils Using Liquid Organic Fertilizer (LOF)

Thrust 3: Infrastructure Construction

• PR14 – Bio-THCM Coupled Process Simulator
• PR9 – Root system evaluation for multi-function foundation bio-inspiration
• PR11 – Bio-Inspired Unsaturated Soil Improvement and Reinforcement: Mechanisms and Strategies
• PR12 – Bio-Inspiration for Resilient Earthen Construction
• PR13 – Engineering Applications of EICP
• PR14 – Bio-inspired design of interwoven flow networks under topological constraints for optimizing utilities systems
• PR19 – Tree Root Inspired Foundations

Thrust 4: Subsurface Exploration and Excavation

• PR15 – Microbial effects on mechanical and geochemical properties in porous media
• PR16 – Microbial Metabolic Exploration from Extreme Environments for Bioremediation and Energy Recovery
• PR18 – Enhancing Methane Production from Landfills
• PR19 – A Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment Framework for Geotechnical Engineering
• PR20 – GUSANO: utilitarian subterranean annelid inspired geo-probe
• PR21 – Geotechnics of Bio-locomotion and Self Excavating Systems
• PR22 – Hydrogel-enhanced EICP for soil stabilization