Stanley Grant

About

Stanley Grant is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech and serves as the Director of the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Lab (OWML) in Northern Virginia. His research focuses on pollutant fate and transport through aquatic systems, with particular interest in water supply and water quality, environmental fate and transport modeling, and coupled human-natural systems. Professor Grant and his team have been awarded a $3.6 million NSF-funded Growing Convergence Research grant to study novel approaches for managing inland freshwater salinization.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Geography
• Water resource management
• Environmental science
• Ecology
• Environmental planning
• Biology
• Soil science
• Economic growth
• Business

Selected publications

• Five state factors control progressive stages of freshwater salinization syndrome

  Limnology and Oceanography Letters · 2022 · 43 citations

  influences consequences, thresholds, and potentials for ecosystem recovery. We hypothesize that state factors advance FSS in distinct stages, which eventually contribute to failures in systems-level functions (supporting drinking water, crops, biodiversity, infrastructure, etc.). We present future research directions for protecting freshwaters at risk based on five state factors and stages from diagnosis to prognosis to cure.

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• Environmental Impact Bonds: a common framework and looking ahead

  Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability · 2021 · 39 citations

  Abstract A frequent barrier to addressing some of our world’s most pressing environmental challenges is a lack of funding. Currently, environmental project funding largely comes from philanthropic and public sources, but this does not meet current needs. Increased coordination and collaboration between multiple levels and sectors of government, in addition to private sector funding, can help address the environmental funding challenge. New financial tools and strategies can enable this transitio…

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• Re‐envisioning stormwater infrastructure for ultrahazardous flooding

  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water · 2020 · 34 citations

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  Abstract Ultrahazardous flooding (UHF) occurs on low relief topography at the foot of mountain catchments and is characterized by rapid‐onset, high‐velocity flood flows, large fluxes of sediment and debris, and unpredictable flow paths. 20th century stormwater infrastructure seeks to contain UHF, up to a design level, using combinations of basins, reservoirs and flood control channels. However, these flood control elements may increase the risk of disasters due to: (a) increasingly frequent and…

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• The sanitary sewer unit hydrograph model: A comprehensive tool for wastewater flow modeling and inflow-infiltration simulations

  Water Research · 2023-12-08 · 19 citations

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  Sanitary sewer systems are critical urban water infrastructure that protect both human and environmental health. Their design, operation, and monitoring require novel modeling techniques that capture dominant processes while allowing for computationally efficient simulations. Open water flow in sewers and rivers are intrinsically similar processes. With this in mind, we formulated a new parsimonious model inspired by the Width Function Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph (WFIUH) approach, widely used…

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• Freshwater faces a warmer and saltier future from headwaters to coasts: climate risks, saltwater intrusion, and biogeochemical chain reactions

  Biogeochemistry · 2025-03-10 · 16 citations

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  Abstract Alongside global climate change, many freshwater ecosystems are experiencing substantial shifts in the concentrations and compositions of salt ions coming from both land and sea. We synthesize a risk framework for anticipating how climate change and increasing salt pollution coming from both land and saltwater intrusion will trigger chain reactions extending from headwaters to tidal waters. Salt ions trigger ‘chain reactions,’ where chemical products from one biogeochemical reaction inf…

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Recent grants

• Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for the Global Environment Nutrient Network (GEN-2)

  NSF · $100k · 2018–2021

• CAREER: The Coagulation and Gravitational Settling of Particles in Aqueous Environments

  NSF · $300k · 1995–2001

• Collaborative Research: GCR: Common Pool Resource Theory as a Scalable Framework for Catalyzing Stakeholder-Driven Solutions to the Freshwater Salinization Syndrome

  NSF · $2.0M · 2020–2026

Frequent coauthors

• Megan A. Rippy

  Waters (United States)

  163 shared

• Sujay S. Kaushal

  Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center

  72 shared

• Shantanu V. Bhide

  53 shared

• Jong Ho Ahn

  49 shared

• Brett F. Sanders

  Irvine University

  46 shared

• Sunny C. Jiang

  45 shared

• J. D. Gomez‐Velez

  Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  44 shared

• Emily A. Parker

  Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

  44 shared

Labs

• Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Lab (OWML)PI

Education

• PhD, Environmental Engineering Science

  California Institute of Technology

  1991

• Geology with Distinction, Geology

  Stanford University

  1985

Awards & honors

• NSF-funded Growing Convergence Research grant

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