{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/FT250100311"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"FT250100311","attributes":{"code":"FT250100311","administering-organisation":"Griffith University","announcement-administering-organisation":"Griffith University","scheme-name":"ARC Future Fellowships","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2025,"years-funded":4,"project-start-date":"2026-01-30","anticipated-end-date":"2030-01-29","grant-summary":"Novel tracers of humanity’s impacts on Earth’s largest freshwater resource. This project aims to reveal new insights about contamination of groundwater, Earth’s largest freshwater resource, using a novel set of environmental indicators (tracers), including trace organic micro-pollutants, radio-isotopes and environmental DNA. The project expects to generate new knowledge about the sources and behaviour of contaminants in water from high-value aquifers and connected springs, across gradients of pollution impact. Expected outcomes include a new framework to guide the forensic identification of groundwater contaminant sources using these tracers. This should provide major benefits for practitioners and policymakers, by enabling more targeted monitoring, early detection and resolution of emerging contamination problems.","funding-current":1314708.00,"funding-at-announcement":1286884,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Prof","firstName":"Matthew","familyName":"Currell","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-0210-800X "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Prof","firstName":"Matthew","familyName":"Currell","roleName":"Future Fellowship","roleCode":"FT","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-0210-800X "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"Griffith University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"Griffith University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"QLD"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":true,"code":"3707","name":"Hydrology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"370701","name":"Contaminant Hydrology","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"370703","name":"Groundwater Hydrology","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"180305","name":"Ground Water Quantification, Allocation and Impact of Depletion","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"180306","name":"Measurement and Assessment of Freshwater Quality (Incl. Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water)","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"180307","name":"Rehabilitation Or Conservation of Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["China (excludes SARs and Taiwan)"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Groundwater - the water in underground aquifers, is Australia’s largest available freshwater resource, and it is vitally important for regional communities, agriculture and mining Australia-wide. Groundwater also sustains freshwater springs and wetland ecosystems, including many significant Indigenous cultural sites. Improving our understanding of groundwater contamination sources, and developing new tools to identify where pollutants come from, will be crucial to maintaining and protecting this precious resource into the future. This project aims to improve our understanding of the sources and behaviour of contaminants in groundwater, by analysing a novel set of environmental tracers within groundwater and surface water that are affected by different types and amounts of pollution. It aims to develop new ways to identify the origin of pollutants in aquifers and their connected springs, water supply bores and ecosystems, and better understand how these pollutants impact on water quality. The project will deliver a new framework that can be readily applied by environmental managers and industry, to rapidly identify and resolve the causes of groundwater pollution before such pollution becomes widespread. The framework will be disseminated through engagement with professional associations and environmental regulators. Ultimately, the research will help to safeguard the huge economic, environmental and social values provided by groundwater - our largest freshwater resource.   "}}}