r seven awards will support groups of three to five investigators at Johns Hopkins University, Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, University of California at San Diego, University of Kentucky, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Each will address a specific aspect of environmental science, such as the development of "green" processes for chemical reactions involving halogens, the binding and release of contaminants in soil and water, and the study of airborne particulate matter.

This year's awards follow the initial establishment of three EMSIs in 1998 at Columbia, Northwestern and Princeton Universities. Those institutes, also funded for five years, are studying problems such as the role of catalytic oxidation in waste clean-up and emission reduction; the molecular mechanisms determining the fate and effect of trace metals in the environment; and how metal-based enzymes, important in global nitrogen and carbon cycles, affect marine ecosystems.

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Contact: Amber Jones
aljones@nsf.gov
703-292-8070
National Science Foundation
30-Oct-2000

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