EPA Awards USF Grants to Study Climate Change Impacts

The University of South Florida picked up two grants worth more than $1 million combined from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to research the impact of extreme weather on air and water quality.

One grant of $750,000 was awarded to the universitys College of Marine Science to support the development of tools to predict future water-quality degradation associated with extreme weather events and a changing climate, according to the EPA release.

The second grant of $374,936 will be used to develop tools to predict how climatic variability and extremes will affect water quality by altering waterborne disease risk for wildlife and humans.

The Tampa university was one of three schools in the Southeast to receive such grants from the EPA through its Science to Achieve Results program.

Georgia Tech was awarded $749,859; Mississippi State University received $363,258.