Cooperative Agreement R17AC00045

This $421,138 project grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the development of a predictive mathematical model for the transport of flocculated mud in rivers by a research team from the California Institute of Technology, University of New Orleans, and Water Institute of the Gulf. The project aims to advance understanding of freshwater flocculation processes and their impact on sustaining floodplains and deltaic wetlands through semi-empirical modeling and field data analysis....

This $412,175 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) aims to improve scientific modeling and water quality forecasting capabilities in the Colorado River Basin. The key products and services to be delivered include: Development of a predictive machine learning model to assess water quality risks in the Colorado River Basin. Expansion of a 3D physical model for the Colorado...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $575,089.48 Cooperative Agreement under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) to Natural Ocean Well CO. on March 19, 2024. The project proposes to install and evaluate a submerged water filtration system in the Las Virgenes Reservoir. Submerged water filtration is an unconventional approach that can reduce energy requirements by leveraging natural hydrostatic pressure, while also protecting the system from atmospheric climate...

This $483,305 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of innovative control and estimation approaches for smart water management systems at the University of California, San Diego through July 2025. Specifically, the grantee will work to quantify distributed sediment profiles in water channels using measurements from gate locations, and develop flow control strategies using continuum models of density gradients induced by moving sediment. An experimental setup will...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Project Grant award, totaling $149,979 and spanning August 2023 to July 2026, supports collaborative research between Kansas State University and the University of Kansas to evaluate the feasibility of using water-injection dredging (WID) to manage reservoir sedimentation. The project aims to generate fundamental scientific and engineering knowledge on the transportation...

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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 awarded a $5,826,000 Project Grant to the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) under the Geographic Programs - San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (CFDA 66.126). The 4-year project aims to: (1) develop strategies to increase beneficial reuse of up to 45,000 tons of flood control channel sediment for habitat restoration; (2) implement pilot projects to restore several acres of tidal marsh and creek habitat; (3) develop visions...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems provides $255,634 to support research advancing understanding of particle-laden gravity currents under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will collaborate with analytical modeling, numerical simulation, laboratory experimentation, and unique field data to develop empirical models predicting transport processes in...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $315,654 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct research on the use of water-injection dredging (WID) to manage reservoir sedimentation. The project aims to evaluate the physical mechanisms, water quality impacts, and ecological effects of using WID to induce turbidity currents and export sediments from a federal reservoir in Kansas. The...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $417,746 to Texas A&M University to develop the SANDPIPER community toolchain. The key products and services delivered under this 4-year project include: Designing and implementing an affordable, open-source hardware and firmware system for geomorphology data acquisition in laboratories worldwide. Establishing a community-backed data standard...