Syracuse CoE Request for Applications under the CARTI Program
The Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (Syracuse CoE) seeks applications for competitively awarded “Collaborative Activities for Research and Technology Innovation (CARTI)” projects. CARTI projects will address research questions associated with either air quality or water resource management, in support of the development of technology innovations for improving environmental quality in built and urban environments.
PRE-PROPOSALS
Pre-proposals were evaluated by Syracuse CoE's Scientific Advisory Committee(SAC) and a limited number of pre-proposal applicants have been invited to submit full proposals.
INVITED FULL PROPOSALS
Completed Applications are due 5:00pm(Easten StandardTime) February 22, 2008.
For 2007 CARTI RFA - click here
For Application Cover Sheet click here
For Budget Template click here
Previous CARTI Awards
A total of 13 projects were awarded under the 2005 CARTI program in the previous call.
For abstracts of awarded air quality projects, click here
For abstracts of awarded water quality projects, click here
A total of 16 projects were awarded under the 2006 CARTI program in the previous call.
For abstracts of awarded air quality projects,
click here
For abstracts of awarded water quality projects,
click here
Syracuse CoE CARTI Program Overview
The mission of the Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (Syracuse CoE) is to create innovations that improve health, productivity, security, and sustainability in built and urban environments. The Syracuse CoE conducts projects across the full spectrum of innovation—from basic and applied research to technology application and demonstration—in multiple areas, including indoor environmental quality, air quality, water resource management, and energy systems. The “Collaborative Activities for Research and Technology Innovation (CARTI)” program targets basic and applied research in two focused areas: air quality and water resource management. This program is funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under award X-83232501-0.
The long-term vision for CARTI activities supported through this solicitation is to advance the development of technology innovations required to create envisioned new “Intelligent Environmental Quality Systems” (
i-EQS). The
i-EQS vision includes three primary components:
1) real-time monitoring of conditions at multiple locations across a broad range of scales, from “global” to “local”;
2) analysis of sensor data, including linkages with simultaneous computational modeling;
3) responses that improve an environment, including the services it provides (e.g., occupant comfort in built environments, drinking water and/or recreation from surface waters) and its impact on humans (e.g., health and performance effects) and natural resources (e.g., materials, energy, ecosystems).
Potential applications of envisioned i-EQS include a variety of situations in which assurance and/or optimization of environmental conditions is highly valued. Two applications of current interest to the Syracuse CoE are: (a) control of building systems to create comfortable, more healthy indoor environments, while reducing contaminant emissions from buildings into the surrounding airshed, and (b) monitoring of surface waters that are sources of drinking water and ecological and recreational benefits. Motivations for these applications include improving human health, productivity, and security, as well as promoting sustainability of urban ecosystems.
Achieving the
i-EQS vision will require advances in fundamental knowledge, technology innovation, technology application and demonstration, and system integration. Supported by grants and contracts from multiple sources, the Syracuse CoE is pursuing a broad portfolio of activities to realize the envisioned revolutionary
i-EQS, including extensive research efforts to improve indoor environmental quality and a multi-year collaborative effort to establish a network of water quality monitors in the Seneca River watershed. The Syracuse CoE seeks to extend the breadth of its
i-EQS research efforts via CARTI projects in the specific research areas of interest described below.
See
2006 CARTI Award Winners.