Projects

Direct Potable Reuse: Exploring Water Quality Needs and Regulatory Pathways, Collaborative Community Research Grant, NC Water Resources Research Institute, 05/2024-05/2025, E.Z. Berglund (PI), Tarek Aziz, Whit Wheeler

This research explores potable water reuse as an alternative source of water for the City of Raleigh, NC.

Development of Dissolved Oxygen Modeling Guidance, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), D. Obenour (PI), E.Z. Berglund

Water quality modeling is a critical tool for evaluating municipal and industrial discharges to North Carolina’s surface waters. This project will provide guidance on modeling approaches to assess discharger impacts on dissolved oxygen conditions. Recommendations will include suggested model types, model configurations, data input requirements, and model performance standards.

COVID X: Influence on Water Distribution Systems Management, US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, 09/2021-09/2025, A. Ostfeld (PI), E. Berglund

The project will create new modeling tools to assess the impacts of pandemics on water infrastructure management.

A Citizen Science Internship Program to Quantify Racial and Economic Disparities in Lead Levels in Drinking Water Across North Carolina, Water Resources Research Institute, 09/2021-03/2023, C. Cooper (PI), E. Berglund, V. Johnson

Catalyzing Stakeholder-Driven Solutions to Inland Freshwater Salinization, National Science Foundation Growing Convergence Program, 09/2020-09/2022, S. Grant (PI)

Training for Innovation in Smart, Sustainable Infrastructure, VentureWell Sustainable Design Faculty Grant, 06/2020-12/2021, A. Grieshop (PI), E. Berglund

From Consumers to Prosumers: Micro-Trading Rainwater at Households, 2019 UoA-NC State Starter Grant, 02/2020-02/2021, E. Berglund, M. Lambert

Untapping the Crowd: Consumer Detection and Control of Lead in Drinking Water, EPA, 05/2018-05/2022, M. Edwards (PI), K. Pieper, A. Katner, C. Cooper, E. Berglund

Social Media, Information Diffusion, and Flood Response During Hurricane Florence, NCSU CCEE Department, 09/2018-09/2019, E. Berglund

Modeling Lead in Water for Underserved Communities, Private Funder, 08/2017-08/2018, K. Pieper, M. Edwards, E. Berglund

Center for Infrastructure Modeling and Management, EPA, 2017-2022, B.s Hodges, University of Texas (PI)

Smart Management of Water Resources and Infrastructure using the Internet of Things, UNC Planning Grant, 09/17-09/18, E. Berglund (PI), G. Kumar, N. Kaza, M. Anwar, J. Bowen

Water Sustainability under Near-term Climate Change : A Cross-Regional Analysis Incorporating Socio-Ecological Feedbacks and Adaptations, NSF Water Sustainability and Climate, 09/01/12 – 08/31/18, S. Arumugam (PI)

Understanding Effects of Norms and Policies on the Robustness, Liveness, and Resilience of SystemsNCSU Science of Security Lablet, 05/14-07/17, E.Z Berglund, M. Singh, J. Doyle

Adversarial Risk Analysis using Agent-based ModelingNCSU Laboratory for Analytical Science, 05/15-12/15, E.Z Berglund (PI)

Agent-based Modeling for the Analysis of WorkflowNCSU Laboratory for Analytical Science, 09/13-05/15, E.Z Berglund (PI)

A Research Network on Water Solutions (ReNeWS): the U.S. Southeast and Beyond, NCSU Research and Innovation Seed Funding Program, 1/01/15 – 12/31/15, Laura Taylor (PI), S. Arumugam, A. Binder, E. Berglund

An Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Integrate Social Dimensions and Infrastructure Management for Urban Water Reuse, NSF Civil Infrastructure Systems, 09/12-09/15, E.M. Zechman (PI), A. Binder

An Integrated Framework for Assessing the Dynamics of Population Growth, Land Use and Climate Change for Urban Water Resources Management, North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, 03/12-02/13, E.M. Zechman (PI), S. Arumugam

BRIGE: A Complex Adaptive Systems Analysis Approach for Integrated Water Resources Sustainability, NSF Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering, 09/09 – 09/12, E.M. Zechman (PI)

An Agent-based Modeling Framework for Response Planning to Contamination Events for Water Utilities, NSF Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events, 09/09 – 09/12, E.M. Zechman (PI), K. Brumbelow, M. Lindell, and J. Mumpower

Increasing Stormwater Awareness through Development of a Stormwater Footprint Game, US EPA’s P3: People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability, 08/10 – 08/11, E.M. Zechman (PI), J. Barbour, A. Sprintson, Winner of 2011 EPA P3 Honorable Mention Award

Sustainable Hydrologic Management Practices on Texas A&M University Campus, US EPA’s P3: People, Prosperity and the Planet Student Design Competition for Sustainability, 08/08 – 08/09, E.M. Zechman (PI), Bryan Boulanger, Radu Stoleru, Georgianne Moore.

Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Signal Coordination of Oversaturated Networks, Texas Transportation Institute, 08/08 – 12/09, E.M. Zechman (PI) and L. Quadrifoglio