Cooperative Agreement W9126G2020041

This $180,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research quantifying evaporation in the Mono Basin watershed of eastern California. The grantee will combine isotopic geochemistry, hydrologic modeling, and sediment core analysis to better estimate historic and current evaporative water loss from Mono Lake. This will improve hydrologic models and understanding of how climate variability has impacted the critical Sierra Nevada water...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805), will fund the Desert Research Institute (DRI) to research and enhance evapotranspiration (ET) mapping and modeling capabilities for national-scale consumptive water use estimation and reporting. The $1,300,000 award, effective from January 17, 2025 to January 16, 2027, will support activities such as: 1) assessing CONUS404...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) provides $875,000 in funding to the Desert Research Institute (DRI) at the Nevada System of Higher Education. The key objectives are to: 1) integrate evapotranspiration (ET) water use estimates into national and regional hydrologic modeling, 2) advance open water evaporation estimation and system integration, 3) improve data processing,...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,094,619 Cooperative Agreement to the Desert Research Institute (DRI) at the Nevada System of Higher Education under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078). The project aims to enhance water supply forecasting in the western U.S. by deploying a novel non-contact infrared snow temperature profiler (STP) to measure vertical snow temperature profiles during federal snow survey operations. This data will be used to validate and improve...

This $621,463 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes (CFDA 15.805) program aims to improve national-scale estimates of poorly constrained water budget components. The award to Oregon State University (OSU) will leverage precipitation stable isotope data and hydrologic models to diagnose biases in evaporation and transpiration fluxes within advanced operational models. The project will focus on four...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $619,990 Project Grant under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) to Oregon State University (OSU) to develop a comprehensive hydrologic modeling framework to enhance flood resilience and water resource management in the Willamette River Basin. The key activities include collecting atmospheric and streamflow data, setting up and calibrating a physics-based hydrology model, coupling the model with machine...

This $430,230 federal 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 research project at the University of Arizona to develop the next generation of U.S. water accounting and natural capital accounting methods. The key products and services to be delivered include: Spatially disaggregating USGS water use datasets from 2000-2015 into a high-resolution 30-meter raster data product...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,003,256.99 Cooperative Agreement to Applied Research Team Inc. on January 4, 2024 under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078). This project aims to demonstrate how the combination of weather radar data and ground-based monitoring can effectively measure snow water equivalent (SWE) at high resolution. The project will focus on multiple headwater watersheds in the Upper Colorado River Basin and the Rio Grande River Basin, utilizing both...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) provides $289,379 to the University of California, Berkeley to conduct research on characterizing evapotranspiration across wetlands in the contiguous United States. The project aims to leverage eddy covariance measurements and remote sensing models to enhance the accuracy of wetland evapotranspiration estimates, addressing the challenges posed by the...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $1,953,858 Cooperative Agreement to the Utah Division of Water Resources to implement Airborne Snow Observatory technology in the Weber River watershed. The 3-year project, which will be completed by September 30, 2027, aims to enhance snowpack measurements and streamflow predictions to optimize reservoir operations, mitigate drought impacts, and better allocate water resources in the region. The project involves conducting airborne LiDAR and spectrometer...