Cooperative Agreement G10AC00112

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $713,795 Project Grant under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to develop advanced hydrodynamic and water quality modeling capabilities for the Lower Colorado River Basin. The project aims to use a "backcasting" approach to rigorously define scenarios likely to cause problems for water managers and water supplies in the region. Model simulations across a wide range of drivers will be...

The U.S. Geological Survey, through its Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), awarded a $238,550 cooperative agreement to the Arizona Department of Game and Fish for the project "Status and Trends of Fish Community Downstream of Glen Canyon Dam FY21." This two-year cooperative agreement, awarded March 4, 2021 and set to be completed by December 31, 2022, will support research on the classification and examination of fish populations below Glen Canyon Dam. As part of...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has awarded a $238,550 Cooperative Agreement to the Arizona Department of Game and Fish (AZGFD) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808). The purpose of this Cooperative Agreement is to monitor the status and trends of the fish community downstream of Glen Canyon Dam along the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon area. The main objectives are to: 1) Estimate the relative abundance and distribution of key fish species like rainbow trout,...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $146,916.91 Project Grant under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) to the Arizona Department of Game and Fish (AZGFD) on August 23, 2024. The grant will fund a 5-year project to monitor and assess the relative abundance, distribution, and movement of native and non-native fishes in the Colorado River upstream and downstream of the Pearce Ferry Rapid. AZGFD will investigate fish movement in relation to factors such as Lake Mead water...

The University of California, Davis was awarded a $547,077 Project Grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to study stream-lake interactions at Lake Tahoe. The project will involve calibrating and validating revised inflow algorithms within an existing hydrodynamic model, using comprehensive field measurements of the dynamic interactions between two major streams (Ward and Incline Creeks) and the stratified Lake Tahoe. The updated and validated...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.083 - Integrative Activities) will provide $299,789 to the Nevada System of Higher Education's Desert Research Institute (DRI) to develop new understanding of how Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO) can be used to improve ecosystem management while also meeting water supply, flood management, and other high priority objectives in the western United States. The project aims to identify and quantify potential...

This Project Grant award of $700,000 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) is focused on improving computational models that describe the relationship between climate and streamflow. The project aims to address uncertainty in these models caused by the influence of human actions on the water cycle, with a specific focus on representing the impacts of dams, which control about 75% of annual runoff in the continental United States. The project will develop a...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $2,748,947 Project Grant under the Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Program (CFDA 15.580) to the Blue River Watershed Group (BRWG) and the Town of Silverthorne. The funding will support the engineering and design of a project to repair degraded aquatic habitat in the Blue River downstream of the Dillon Reservoir in Colorado. The project aims to address issues such as low flows, below average water temperatures, and lack of sediment and nutrient transport caused...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $999,929 Project Grant under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) program to California Trout, Inc. for a 3-year project. The purpose of this grant is to monitor and evaluate the ecological impacts of removing the Klamath River dams, which will open over 400 miles of previously blocked fish habitat. Key project activities include using sonar, species composition sampling, and radio telemetry to estimate salmon and steelhead abundance and...

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California was awarded a $520,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to expand surface water flow and temperature modeling capabilities for California's Central Valley. The project aims to collect and manage data, and develop new models, to support salmonid restoration planning. The new data modeling tools will be utilized in the Reorienting to Recovery...