Cooperative Agreement NR212B29XXXXC003

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $399,900 to Lehigh University to develop a human-centered modeling approach that simulates best management practices (BMPs) and behaviors under uncertainty to meet water quality guidelines. The project, titled "A HUMAN-CENTERED MODELING APPROACH TO SIMULATE BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND BEHAVIORS UNDER UNCERTAINTY TO MEET WATER QUALITY GUIDELINES", combines...

This $386,729 Environmental Protection Agency Formula Grant funds the Indiana Department of Environmental Management's statewide water quality management planning program through June 2025. The program aims to improve impaired waters and protect unimpaired waters across Indiana through increased public awareness and regional watershed planning. Per the Water Quality Management Planning program (CFDA 66.454), 40% of funding will support the Twin Creek-Lick Branch Watershed Management Plan...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $199,045.75 Project Grant under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to coordinate the development of a restoration plan for the Salt River Watershed in western Wyoming and eastern Idaho. The project will involve meeting with landowners, conducting habitat surveys and water quality monitoring, and developing a prioritized project list to address degraded aquatic, riparian, and wetland habitats within the...

The Moulton Niguel Water District (MNWD) in Laguna Niguel, California was awarded a $472,835 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507). The grant will enable MNWD to partner with Orange County Public Works to develop a strategy to divert urban runoff and stormwater within the Aliso Creek watershed. The goal is to improve downstream water quality and increase local...

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 $300,000 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Reclamation's Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) supports the Headwaters of the Colorado (HOC) Initiative, a multi-stakeholder collaboration focused on building resilient and functioning forested headwaters within the Little Snake and Yampa watersheds in Wyoming and Colorado. The funding will enable the HOC partnership, which includes federal and state land management agencies, private landowners, and local community...

This $2,646,047 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is developing a national integrated watershed evaluation framework to improve water resource management. The framework will bring together diverse hydrologic datasets and provide tools for advanced model evaluation and exploration of watershed conditions. The project, led by Princeton University, will engage a diverse community...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Water Resources Research Act (WRRA) Program (CFDA 15.805) provides $416,267 to Purdue University to conduct research on the impacts of hydrologic intensification on long-term water budgets across the Continental United States. The key project activities include evaluating hourly precipitation data, investigating the historical relationship between rainfall and runoff, and simulating future rainfall distribution and...

This $558,005 Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) will fund a 3-year study on the occurrence, bioaccumulation, and biomagnification of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in natural and constructed wetlands. The key objectives are to: 1) understand if PFAS concentrations increase through the wetland food chain and evaluate the ability of wetlands to remove these chemicals; 2)...

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) was awarded a $119,687 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Water Use and Data Research (WUDR) Program to enhance the quality and usability of West Virginia's water use data. Under this 2-year project, WVDEP will identify and implement several improvements to their Large Quantity User (LQU) database, including establishing a one-to-one primary facility key to resolve duplicate facility IDs, integrating the...