Research Projects

GRAND TOTAL more than $10 Million (as PI or co-PI); Since 2013 >$7 Million

FUNDED:

2023

• USDA-NIFA, Anthropogenic soil memories: Human legacies shape physical, chemical and microbial composition of riparian soils. Inamdar (PI). Total = $750,000.

• Chesapeake Bay Trust. More than dirt: Soil health tradeoffs with stream and floodplain restorations. Inamdar (PI). Total = $214,838.

2022

• NSF, Hydrologic Sciences. Collaborative Research: Saturated, suffocated, and salty: Hotspots of ammonium-N & dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium-denitrification dichotomy in anoxic riparian soils. Inamdar (PI). Total = $764,166.

• Chesapeake Bay Trust. Memories of the soils: Evaluation of soil nitrogen stable isotope as a robust metric to assess floodplain restoration and nitrogen removal effectiveness. Inamdar (PI). Total = $112,000.

2021

• US-EPA, Back from the past? Assessing potential of relict, hydric soils for wetland and floodplain restorations. EPA Wetland Program Development Grants. Inamdar (PI). Total = $228,556.

2020

• USDA-NIFA, Back from the past: Recovery of nutrient processes and microbial communities in relict, hydric, soils following restoration. Inamdar (PI). Total = $499,830.

• USDA-NIFA, Biological nitrogen removal in sediment plumes - a critical but missing component of watershed models, Inamdar (co-PI). Total = $500,000.

2019

• NSF, Hydrologic Sciences. Low-head milldams as hotspots for denitrification and nitrogen consumption: Hydrologic and biogeochemical controls. UD = $ 498,660; Total = $ 719,959. Inamdar (PI)

2018

• NSF-RAPID, Hydrologic Sciences. Draining the landscape: Will the drop in stream and groundwater levels following dam removal increase the leaching of nitrogen (N) from riparian zones? $49,500. Inamdar (PI)

2017

• USDA-AFRI, Significance of Streambank Legacy Sediments as Nutrient Sources and Their Implications for Aquatic Nutrient Cycling. $499,500. Inamdar (PI)

• UD CANR Seed grant. Streambank restoration for legacy sediments: How much improvement in water quality and stream ecology? $50,000. Inamdar (PI).

2016

• USDA-AFRI, AGU Chapman Conference Grant. $50,000. Inamdar (PI)

• NSF-EPSCoR, AGU Chapman Conference Grant. $99,928. Inamdar (PI)

• UNIDEL, University of Delaware, Core Water Laboratory Award, $501,400. Inamdar (PI)

2015

• USDA-AFRI. Large runoff flux and transformation of particulate nitrogen (PN) following large storms: A critical but unexplored component of N cycling in watersheds. $475,000. Inamdar (PI), R Vargas and J. Kan (Co-PIs).

2013

• National Science Foundation (NSF) -EPSCoR Track-2. 2013-2016. "North East Water Resources Network (NEWRnet)" $2,000,000 to University of Delaware ($6M to three-state partnership). D.J. Leathers (PI); A. Andres, D., Levia, S. Inamdar, and K.D. Messer (co- PI).

• National Science Foundation (NSF) -EPSCoR Track-1. Leader for Theme 2.  Total grant amount = $20 Million. Theme 2 ~ $120,000.

• USDA-AFRI, 2013-2016. Coupling Solid-Aqueous-Gas Phases Of Carbon And Nitrogen Across Topographic Gradients And Extreme Weather Events. $499,875. R. Vargas (PI),  Inamdar (Co-PI).

• NSF CRB CZO Extension Grant: Christina River Basin CZO: a whole watershed approach to integrating feedbacks between water, mineral and carbon fluxes in human landscapes. (Inamdar -Collaborator) Funding to Inamdar = $12,105.

2011

• 2011-2014: USDA-NIFA National Integrated Water Quality Program (NIWQP). Amount = $595,000. Inamdar (PI). Water quality and ecosystem services from landscape best management practices that enhance vegetation in urbanizing watersheds.

2010

• 2010 – 2015: National Science Foundation (NSF). Amount = $4,215,610. Inamdar co-PI. University of Delaware Critical Zone Observatory (CZO): Spatial and temporal integration of carbon and mineral fluxes: a whole watershed approach to quantifying anthropogenic modification of critical zone carbon sequestration.

• 2010-2012: University of Delaware – Delaware Water Resources Fellowship, Amount = $67,500.

2009

• 2009-2012: USDA-AFRI. Amount = $399,950. Inamdar (PI). Fate, transport, and changes in the potency of hormones, antibiotics, and their degradates at the watershed scale.

2008

• 2008-2011: National Science Foundation (NSF) Hydrologic Science Program. Total Amount = $540,634 (UD share = $331,920). Principal Investigator. Collaborative research: Evolution of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen (DON) from the Headwaters to the Catchment Outlet: Sources, Variation with Scale, and Differences with DOC. Inamdar (PI)

• 2008-2011: United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) International Science and Education (ISE). Amount = $100,000. Inamdar (PI). Sustainable agriculture and watershed management in developing countries: Enhancing international education, research, and extension opportunities.

• 2008: University of Delaware Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). Amount = $3500. Principal Investigator.

2007

• 2007-08: Starrett Foundation. Amount = $56,000.  Principal Investigator.  Microclimatology and biogeochemistry of a mid-Atlantic Watershed located in southeastern Pennsylvania. 

• 2007-2010: ISEQ and ABC Graduate Student Fellowship. Amount = $60,000. Principal Investigator.  Transport and Fate of Hormones and Trace Metals from land-applied Poultry and Dairy waste.

• 2007-2008: University of Delaware Research Foundation. Amount = $25,000.  Principal Investigator.  Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) fluxes from catchments:  Controls of wetlands and hydrologic flow paths.

• 2007-2008: CANR Seed Grant Program. Amount = $10,000.  Principal Investigator. Transport of hormones from agricultural fields receiving manure and poultry waste: What are the controlling factors and mechanisms?

2006 and before:

• 2006-2009: USDA-CIG Grant. Subcontract to Inamdar = $38,500.  Demonstrating sustainable integration of value-added manure products into 21st century farming.

• 2004-2006: Great Lakes Commission, Ann Arbor, MI. $29,945.  Co-Principal Investigator. Erosion caused by ice- how significant is the contribution to watershed soil erosion and sediment budgets?

• 2002 – 2005:  USDA National Research Initiative New Investigator Award, Amount = $170,000. Principal Investigator.  Catchment-scale nutrient export patterns during storm events – Investigating the controls of Variable Source Area (VSA) dynamics and connectivity.

• 2005: Incentive Award, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY, $6704. Principal Investigator. Identifying the controls of watershed units on storm-event solute chemistry.

• 2005: Niagara County Economic Development, $3000. Principal Investigator. LULC development for the 18-mile creek watershed.

• 2003 – 2004: Great Lakes Commission, Ann Arbor, MI. $30,610. Principal Investigator.  Relationship between sediment concentrations and benthic habitat indices.

• 2002 – 2004: Great Lakes Commission, Ann Arbor, MI, $25,028. Principal Investigator. Assessment of modeling tools and data needs for developing the sediment portion of the TMDL plan for a mixed land use watershed.

• 2002 – 2003: Great Lakes Research Consortium (GLRC), $6,816. Principal Investigator. Identifying sediment source areas for a highly polluted urban creek.

• 2004 – 2005: US Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, Buffalo, NY. $112,000.  Principal Investigator. Assessment of sediment loads for the Eighteen-Mile Creek watershed.

• 2002 - 2004: US Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, Buffalo, NY. $97,000.  Principal Investigator. Modeling sediment transport in the Buffalo River watershed.

• 2002 – 2003: US Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, Buffalo, NY. $30,000.  Co-Principal Investigator. Watershed Planning in the Buffalo River Watershed.

• 2003-2004: US Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, Buffalo, NY. $51,886.  Co-Principal Investigator. Chemistry of suspended sediment in the Buffalo River.

• 2001: National Science Foundation (NSF) Contract Grant from SUNY-ESF. Amount = $3525. Principal Investigator .Watershed Modeling and Analysis for Arbutus Watershed. Period: Summer 2001.

• 2001: NASA Travel Grant from American Geophysical Union (AGU). Amount = $650. Principal Investigator. For AGU Chapman Conference for the State-of-the-Art-Hillslope-Hydrology.

Participation/Collaboration on grants (not included in total):

• 2001 – 2002: Collaboration with SUNY-ESF on NSF funded grant: Sources and Sinks of Nitrogen within a Forested Watershed. $650,000. PI: M. J. Mitchell.