Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS

Amount

$169,820.00

Award Date

7/07/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Soil erosion is the main cause of failure for dams and levees and can have disastrous consequences, such as the catastrophes in New Orleans in 2006 and in Iowa in 2008. According to the latest Report Card for Americas Infrastructure, issued in 2009 by the