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Integrated Field Challenge Site

Anticipated Outcomes

Assessment of Bioremediation Status Using Protein Expression

  • Specific proteins identified for quantitatively assessing microbial community status
  • Field deployable chip array

Minimally Invasive Monitoring of In Situ Redox Status, Minimizing Sampling and Analysis Costs

  • Combined resistivity and microbiological assessment
  • Groundwater sampling needed only when redox status meets a pre-defined level of change

Effective Prediction of Natural Attenuation of U and Other Redox Sensitive Metals

  • Incorporates microbial reductive processes
  • Supports key DOE-LM need to assess sites on 100 year time scale

Prediction of Effectiveness of U Bioremediation Site-Specific Conditions

  • Output of comprehensive biogeochemical reactive transport model
  • Incorporates dominant processes operating at field scale

Rifle Colorado Site

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