Cooperative Agreement G11AC20333

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program ($937,251) funds research into scaling climate connectivity and communities in streams. Led by Pennsylvania State University from March 2022 through December 2023, the grant supports a three-year field study across 10 regions in the southern, central, and western U.S. Researchers will collect streamflow and biological data to investigate differences between intermittent and perennial streams. The University...

This $300,236 National Science Foundation project grant will fund collaborative research exploring the influence of agricultural tile drainage on streamflow and water temperatures in the Midwestern United States. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise, this research will develop quantile regression models to examine how tile drainage alters streamflow and water...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology awarded a $653,498 Project Grant to Montana State University to conduct collaborative research with the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) on how continued warming and increasing drought will influence stream ecosystems. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) investigate whether physiological adaptations to warming can compensate for reduced invertebrate carbon use efficiencies at high temperatures,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) provides $410,014 to the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies to continue a long-term study of ecosystem processes in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in New Hampshire. The project will examine how forest ecosystems are recovering from acid deposition and responding to climate change, using a 60-year record of precipitation and stream chemistry data. Key research questions include the...

This $374,473 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program to Conservation Science Partners, Inc. supports a collaborative research project to investigate the impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems in National Park units. The key activities under this project include assessing trends and drivers of climate impacts on stream temperatures, estimating thermal...

This Project Grant award of $207,353 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research by Lafayette College to link hydrological processes and landscape form to the riverine thermal regime in the Mid-Atlantic US. The key objectives are to: 1) develop a framework and conduct time-series analysis of river temperature observations; 2) use models to describe water movement and energy exchange; and 3) clarify the role of hydrology in determining stream...

This Project Grant award of $190,296 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to Susquehanna University supports a study evaluating the effectiveness of Beaver Dam Analogues (BDAs) in improving the health and management of urban streams overwhelmed by stormwater. The project, titled "EMBRACE-EAR-SEED: Reshaping Environments: Low-Tech, Process-Based Restoration with Beaver Dam Analogues to Enhance Watershed Resilience in Human-Modified Landscapes," will...

This $295,186 federal Formula Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Cooperative Forestry Research program (CFDA 10.202) supports a research project focused on assessing and evaluating coal mine reclamation practices on stream water quality in reforested, previously disturbed watersheds in Central Appalachia. The project employs a paired-watershed study approach, continuously monitoring water chemistry, hydrology, and...

Florida A&M University (FAMU) will evaluate molecular biomonitoring methods for assessing water quality and stream health under a $299,593 three-year Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA). The grant falls under NIFA's 1890 Institution Capacity Building Grants program (CFDA 10.216), which aims to build research and teaching capacity at historically black land-grant universities. Specifically, FAMU will compare...

This $1,082,076 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) aims to study the effects of climate change and land use on stream biodiversity in the Appalachian region. The project will use high-frequency sensors and underwater video technology to link dissolved oxygen levels in stream microhabitats to the behavior and reproductive outcomes of the Eastern Hellbender,...