Our Director
Stanley Grant, Ph.D.
Stanley Grant is Director of the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Laboratory and Nick Prillaman Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. An internationally recognized hydrologist and water-quality researcher, his work combines field experiments, environmental sensing, modeling, and stakeholder engagement to address emerging challenges in One Water systems. He has led multiple center-scale research initiatives, including NSF-funded programs on urban water resilience, stormwater reuse, freshwater salinization, and emerging contaminants. Grant currently directs a $3.6M NSF Growing Convergence Research project focused on stakeholder-driven solutions to freshwater salinization using the Occoquan Reservoir as a national testbed. Building on lessons learned from that work regarding coupled infrastructure, watershed, and governance dynamics, he also leads the approximately $700K Water Research Foundation “One PFAS” project, which is developing collaborative, system-scale strategies for addressing PFAS contamination in interconnected drinking water, wastewater, and watershed systems. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 2018, Grant held faculty and leadership positions at University of California, Irvine and the University of Melbourne.