Science Foundation (NSF), and which resulted
in five graduate students receiving mone-
tary awards. The project was featured in
the Louisiana Department of Environmental
Quality publication Discover, and its results
have been disseminated in multiple outlets.
Dr. Chappell's USDA NIFA-funded capaci-
ty-building grant project aims at quantifying
the performance of an artificial peat wetland
structural soil (JAG Soil) in constructed urban
wetlands to reduce flash flood risk. The objec-
tives are to create a unique structural soil
that mimics wetlands natural soils, deter-
mine what constructed wetland design works
best for water quality and holding capacity,
and then quantify nutrient loading, plant per-
formance, and the ability of the constructed
wetlands to act as a phytoremediator.
The NASA project team at a wetland soil sampling day in 2019. Left to right: Simbrey Majors, who
received an M.S. degree in Dec 2020; Zhu Ning—Institutional Principle Investigator (PI); Victor Rivera—
LSU Co-PI; Chris Chappell—SU Co-PI; and Hande Suslu, who received a PhD degree in Dec 2020.
Dr. Chappell collecting wetlands field research data.
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