IGA STUDENT GRANTS
The IGA offers small grants
to partially support student research on groundwater or related topics. Applications
are evaluated on the basis of scientific merit, capability of the applicant,
and the level of requested funding as it relates to the proposed work.
These grants are open to any graduate or undergraduate student registered at
an accredited Illinois college or university. A condition of the
grant is that grant recipients present the findings of their research at an IGA
meeting.
NOTE: The 2008 application is now available in MS Word format. The scope of the grants program was slightly expanded last year to include research relevant to Illinois groundwater, not just groundwater research at sites within Illinois. The next deadline for grant application is September 26.
For
more information, contact the IGA Student Grants Coordinator, Ed Mehnert.
| Year | Awardee | Title | Amount |
2008 spring |
Carol Glennon,
MS student, ISU, Department of Geography-Geology, Normal |
Evaluating the role of sinuosity in the removal of nitrate from Little Kickapoo Creek | $500 for analytical costs |
| Andrew Greenhagen,
MS student, NIU, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences,
DeKalb |
Fate and transport of pharmaceuticals in soil and groundwater | $500 for constructing laboratory columns | |
2007 fall |
Joyce Harris,
MS student, ISU, Department of Geography-Geology, Normal |
Recovery of hyporheic function in modified agricultural streams over time, Headwaters of the Mackinaw River, Illinois, USA | $500 |
2007 spring |
Kathleen Giambeluca,
BS student Augustana College |
Assessment of prevalence of heavy metal concentration at Giant Goose Conservation Education Workshop, Fort Atkinson, IL | $500 for analytical costs |
| John E. Keller, PhD student, SIU, Department of Geology, Carbondale | Investigation of the theoretical and practical applications of the direct push permeameter (DPP) methodology on the determination of hydraulic conductivity | $500 for software and field travel |
|
| Samantha Lax, MS student, ISU, Department of Geography-Geology, Normal | Creating a model to predict stream chloride concentrations resulting from change in land use | $500 for analytical costs | |
| Lisa Rauh, BS student, NIU, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, DeKalb | A hydrogeologic site investigation of the former Monarch Foundary, Plano, IL | $500 for field supplies & analytical costs | |
| Dominic Strezo, MS student, ISU, Department of Geography-Geology, Normal | The role of beaver dams on hyporheic processes and the quantification of nitrogen across the associated looping flowpaths | $500 for analytical costs | |
2006 |
Anirban Basu, ISU, Department of Geography-Geology, Normal | Quantifying nitrogen cycling between groundwater and surface water using numerical modeling and mass flux calculations | $500 |
| Kristine Karuhn, NIU, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, DeKalb | Impacts of high-density septic systems on surface and groundwater quality and quantity | $500 | |
2005
|
Samuel Gillet, NIU, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, DeKalb | Field-based estimation and characterization of shallow aquifer recharge in DeKalb County: A pre-urbanization baseline study | $450 |
| Katrina Hall, SIU, Department of Geology, Carbondale | Surfactant enhanced remediation of a LNAPL spill | $500 | |
2004 |
Kathleen Bryant, NIU, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, DeKalb | Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Halogenated Compounds on the Chemistry and Matrix Structure of Clays in Northern Illinois | $295 |
| Amy Schwarz, NIU, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, DeKalb | Site Characterization of Two Southeast Rockford, Illinois Sites Contaminated with Chlorinated Solvents and Heavy Metals | $400 | |
| Cole Bertsch, NEIU, Department of Earth Science, Chicago | Comparison of Chemical and Hydrogeologic Properties of Groundwater Extracted from Hollow-Stem Auger and Direct Push Monitoring Wells | $400 | |
2003 |
Becky A. Ciske, NEIU, Department of Earth Science, Chicago | A Study of the Effects of Precipitation on Methane Production and its Relationship with the Chemical Composition of Leachate at a Landfill Site | $300 |
| Diane M. Lamb, ISU, Department of Geography-Geology, Normal | A Study of Nitrate Transport in the Vadose Zone in a Central Illinois Agricultural Area | $300 | |
| Steven Kroll, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | Influence of Oxygenates on the Fate and Transport of BTEX Compounds in Fine Grained Soils | $300 | |
2002 |
Rosa Leal-Bautista, NIU, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences | Sorption of MTBE on Clay-Rich Deposits in Northern Illinois | $300 |
2001 |
No grants awarded | ||
2000 |
Allen Oertel, SIU, Department of Civil Engineering, Carbondale | Evaluation of Subsurface Dentrification Potential at a Biosolids Disposal Site | $200 |
1999 |
Craig Perciante, Wheaton College, Department of Geology, Wheaton | Hydrogeologic Characterization of the West Branch Fen of DuPage County | $200 |
1998 |
No grants awarded | ||
1997 |
Matthew A. Barner, Wheaton College, Department of Geology, Wheaton | A Wellhead Protection Study for the Fisherman’s Inn Restaurant near Elburn, Illinois | $150 |
| Leo M. Kurylo, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | Effects of Fluid Chemistry on Calcite Overgrowth Morphology | $100 | |
| John J. Noyes, NEIU, Department of Earth Science, Chicago | Electrokinetically Enhanced DNAPL Removal: Implications for Cleanup of Contaminated Soils | $200 | |
1996 |
Kurt Kraske, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | Movement and Evolution of Nitrogen Compounds in the Prairie Aquigroup and Alexandrian - Maquoketa Aquifer in Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois | $50 |
| Yanzhong Liang, U of I, Department of Geological Sciences, Chicago | Speciation and Complexation of Lead in Contaminated Surfaces and Ground Waters | $200 | |
1995 |
Rebecca Reid, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | Hydrogeological Characterization of Ground Water at a Wetland in Van Pattern Woods | $300 |
| Reynald De Castro, ISU, Department of Geography-Geology, Normal | Groundwater Chemistry Across a Buried Anticline in Douglas County, Illinois | $200 | |
1994 |
Jinnan Ahou, U of I, Department of Civil Engineering, Chicago | Effect of Slug Hydrodynamic Efficiency on the Accuracy of Field Hydraulic Conductivity Tests in Highly Permeable Formations | $275 |
| Jacqueline N. Morrison, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | Influence of Buried Bedrock Valleys in North-Central Illinois on Recharge and Groundwater Flow in the Prairie, Upper Bedrock and Midwest Bedrock Aquigroups | $350 | |
| Richard Poland, NEIU, Department of Earth Science, Chicago | Field Comparison of Three Methods of Measuring K in the Vadose Zone | $200 | |
1993 |
Daina Hardisty, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | Geochemical Characterization of Groundwater in Glacial Drift Aquifers in Northern Lake County, Illinois | $300 |
| Timothy A. McDonald, SIU, Department of Geology, Carbondale | Guelph Permeameter Variability and Development of an Inexpensive Automated, Modified Guelph Permeameter | $300 | |
1992 |
Sandra L. Kubilus, NEIU, Department of Earth Science, Chicago | Hydrology of Lake Michigan Tributary, Lake County, Illinois | $250 |
1991 |
Chittaranjan
Ray , U of I, Department of Civil Engineering, Urbana |
Solute Transport in a Dual Porosity System Resulting from Plant Roots, Root Channels, and Other Macropores | $210 |
1990 |
Edward Mehnert, U of I, , Department of Civil Engineering, Urbana | Aquifer Characterization Using Earth Tide Response in Wells | $200 |
| Georgia G. Brown, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | Geology of an Illinois Riverine Wetland Complex | $230 | |
1989 |
Martin C. Keeley, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | Mallard North Landfill, Fractured Clay Cover Study | $200 |
| Elaine C. Schwartz, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | The Ground Water Flow Regime and the Extent of Agricultural Contamination in DeKalb County, Illinois | $200 | |
1988 |
Paula Sanford, U of I, Department of Geology, Chicago | Groundwater Movement near a Small Pond | $230 |
| Erik D. Spande, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | Impacts of Subsurface Coal Mining on Local and Regional Groundwater Flow in the Illinois Basin | $200 (declined after receiving research grant) | |
1987 |
Pamela A. Aubuchon, SIU, Department of Geology, Carbondale | A Geophysical and Hydrogeologic Investigation of an Oil-Field Brine Plume located in Western Saline County, Illinois | $200 |
| Bethany C. Price, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | Infiltration and Leachate Production at a Landfill in Northeastern Illinois | $210 | |
| David A Schumacher, NIU, Department of Geology, DeKalb | Groundwater Flow through the Galena and Platteville Groups in DeKalb and Kane Counties, Illinois | $295 |