Thrust Areas	Ecosystem	Water Institute Classification Level

Water Institute Program Initiation Fund Projects are supported by, or resulted from support by, the Water Institute Program Initiation Fund.  The goal of this fund to encourage interdisciplinary working groups consisting of UF faculty, graduate students, and key external experts to scope problems, engage stakeholders, write proposals, develop knowledge and propose solutions for complex water issues that have state, national and global importance. For more details see Classification Policy.

Project Title	Project Investigator
A Framework for Assessing The Hydrologic Footprint of Large-scale Bioethanol Production	Cohen, Matthew J
Coupling of Advanced Oxidation and Adsorption Processes onto Silica-Titania Composites for Low Level Capture of Metals from Water Effluents	Mazyck, David W
Environmental Consequences of Nutrients and Organic Matter Injection into Carbonate Aquifers; Implications for Water Quality in Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Technology	Zimmerman, Andrew R
Evaluation of Pre-Treatment Techniques and Operational Schemes for Controlling Arsenic Mobilization during Artificial Recharge (AR) and Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR)	Annable, Michael D
Exploring coupled social and hydrological uncertainty within adaptive water resource management in the Appalachicola Chatahoochee Flint River Basin	Kiker, Gregory A
Integrated Modeling of the Impact of Freshwater Flow on the Salinity inside Apalachicola Bay	Sheng, Yeayi P
Protecting Florida's Water Quality: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Implementation of Low Impact Development (LID) Practices	Clark, Mark W
Research Synthesis: Residential Benchmarks for minimal landscape water use	Dukes, Michael D
Research Synthesis: Conservation and Drought Water Rates	Borisova, Tatiana
Scenario-Based Analysis of Surface Water Withdrawals from the St. Johns River Basin	Boyer, Treavor H
Sediment Transport through Tidal Inlets During Extreme Forcing: Erosion or Accretion?	Valle-Levinson, Arnoldo
Understanding mental models of Springs Working Group members	Monroe, Martha Carrie
Water, Gender And Equity In India	Sanford, Ann Whitney