Cooperative Agreement L24AC00101

This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) will establish the groundwork for developing a Global Center to provide real-time water quality forecasts and decision support tools for lakes and reservoirs in the U.S. and Australia facing climate change impacts. The key products to be delivered under this 2-year award include: 1) an American-Australian community of water researchers, managers, industry, and...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), aims to establish a climate change research network to help the Lakota Tribe, Navajo Tribe, and Vermont farming communities manage water quality and quantity issues caused by climate change. The $236,472 award to New Mexico State University, awarded on August 1, 2024, will support the creation of an integrated data science framework, a network of affordable water...

This $1,382,500 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to advance quality and climate-resilient water management in three U.S. regions - the Lakota tribe in South Dakota, the Navajo tribe in New Mexico, and flood-prone farming communities in Vermont. The "Advancing Quality and Climate-Resilient Water Management with Community Partnerships and Enhanced Sensor Network (AQUA-CLIME)" project will create a...

This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the development of a real-time forecasting system to predict water quality in three drinking water reservoirs in Appalachia. Researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) will create an integrated catchment-reservoir model that couples terrestrial and freshwater ecosystem processes to predict how changing Earth system hazards, such as...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.902 Soil and Water Conservation), provides $374,182 to the University of Wisconsin System to install and operate edge-of-field water quality monitoring stations. The goal is to enable agricultural producers and scientists to quantify the impacts of conservation activities on water quality. The University of Wisconsin System will install two edge-of-field monitoring stations...

The University of Maine System, through its University of Maine Division, was awarded a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) with a performance period from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2027. The project will synthesize information on the effects of climate change on the water cycle in the Northeastern United States, focusing on freshwater ecosystems, watershed processes, water...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems provides $148,959 to support the development of real-time data collection and downscaled climate risk models to improve water quality and sustain salt marshes in the Buzzards Bay watershed. Under the official federal grant program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering" (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing and...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $254,976 Project Grant to Resbonds International Corporation through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a digital platform for assessing water quality at urban-watershed interfaces. The platform will integrate physical data from advanced monitoring systems with artificial intelligence to serve as a scalable analytics platform using environmental, economic, and social data. It aims to help cities and utilities finance infrastructure projects...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) provides $249,917 to Colorado State University to expand and enhance the AQUASAT dataset and tools for remote sensing of water quality parameters. The key activities and deliverables include: 1) developing an R package to streamline access to AQUASAT, 2) adding new water quality parameters like total nitrogen and phosphorus, 3) creating a pipeline to integrate...

This $599,998 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to estimate the emergence of anthropogenic climate change signals in snow water resource metrics in mountainous regions. Led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, the project will use an innovative modeling framework including a large ensemble climate model and process-based hydrological modeling. It aims to strengthen understanding of when and how much climate change...