FUNDED GRANTS and CONTRACTS

(CSUF total to date through 2023: over $ 3,000,000)

2016-2020

  • California High Speed Rail Authority ($500,000); Oversee Groundwater issues as they may pertain to construction and operations of the California High Speed Rail. Including groundwater modeling review and deep groundwater monitoring.

  • Water Replenishment District of Southern California ($5,000). Grant to develop full proposal to deal with groundwater outreach education instruction.

2004 – 2014

  • Mojave Water Agency ($2,099,000); Grant for work on Water Resource Evaluation and Mapping – Mojave Desert Region (Alto, Este, Oeste and Centro Hydrologic Sub-areas).

2003   

  • Mojave Water Agency ($217,000); Water Resource Research within the Mojave Desert.  Part of this project is to development a GIS/Database inventory of all wells, groundwater elevations and hydrogeochemistry of each basin within the boundaries of MWA.  Specific portions of the grant have been set aside to collect and analyze data from a 2,500-foot-deep multiport monitoring well in the vicinity of Oro Grande Wash.

  • Friends of the San Gabriel River ($32,000); Citizens Monitoring Program Development and Implication. This was funded through a State of California Grant (Prop 50).

2002   

  • Mojave Water Agency ($57,405); Groundwater Investigations to look at potential recharge areas throughout the Southern Mojave Desert Area.  Establishment of digital well log inventory and bibliographic search of all documents pertaining to MWA water agency.  CSUF was also charged with developing a key well program for Lucerne Valley based on groundwater basin recharge.

  • CSUF Service-Learning Mini-Grant ($1,500); The integration of Service Learning into Advanced Environmental Geology.

  • Earth Consultants International, Inc. ($3,000); Geologic Interpretation of borehole geophysics.  Involves the gamma-ray logging and interpretation of subsurface geology.

2001   

  • CSUF Service-Learning Mini-Grant ($3,000); The integration of Service Learning into Advanced Hydrogeology Sampling.

  • San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy ($35,000); Sediment Quality and Depositional Environment of San Elijo Lagoon.

  • Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board ($31,000); The Santa Clara River Watershed; GPS and Observational Report on the Santa Clara River

  • Grant to develop a web-based model on Distance Calibration of Earth Images ($800). This was part of Advanced Technology in Science Learning Environments Grant through the Department of Biology.

  • CSUF Summer Support Assistance ($5,000); This was summer support money to aid in the sampling of water and soil throughout Orange County, California.

2000        

  • Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board ($25,000); The San Gabriel River Watershed; GPS and Observational Report on the San Gabriel River from the Whittier Narrows region to Seal Beach.

 

IN-KIND DONATIONS for Research / Projects  (with grant section)

  • Supplies for Screen and Gravel Pack Analysis (est. $4,000); Donated by Johnson Screens.

  • DJI Phantom II (est. $2,500); Donated by Earth Forensics Inc.

  • Cave Bear, misc fossils (est. $200,000); Donated by Gregg Family Foundation

  • Woolly Mammoth (est. $500,000); Donated by Gregg Family Foundation

  • Software (Visual Modflow) ($2,700); Donated by Earth Forensics Inc.

  • Soil sampling supplies and equipment ($2,500); Donated by GeoProbe.

  • Deep Multiport Westbay Monitoring Well ($300,000); A deep multiport monitoring well was installed on the northwestern portion of campus in order to develop a long-term monitoring program for groundwater in the north Orange County groundwater basin. The well was installed with sampling ports at 6 different zones to a total depth of 850 feet below ground level. The entire project was donated.

  • Miscellaneous equipment, supplies and laboratory analysis has been donated for a multitude of different projects ($50,000). These donations have been used for student thesis research and classroom activities.

  • Sampling Truck (value $30,000). The vehicle is specially designed to collect water samples downhole – equipped with twin generators and large capacity hydraulic system. Donated by Earth Technologies, Inc.

  • Ford F-250 Pickup ($8,000); Donated by URS Corporation.

  • Generator ($2,500); Donated by Aquifer Science and Technology.

  • Software (Waterloo Hydrogeologic – Visual Modflow, AquiferTest and Aquachem) ($10,000).

  • Software (Groundwater Vistas) ($2,500).

  • Conference table and chairs ($500); Donated by URS Corporation.

  • Arboretum Groundwater Study (approximately $10,000); Drilling and installation of 3 monitoring wells for the purpose of developing curriculum for general hydrogeology. These wells are part of a larger project to interpret the hydrogeology of CSUF and the local area.