Project Grant 07FG200041

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $378,916.00 and granted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, supports research focused on "Facilitating Fish Passage at Lock and Dam Structures in the Mississippi River." The award was made to the University of Illinois under the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630). This program funds research projects at universities and other non-federal entities that...

This federal Project Grant award of $650,000 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The funding supports 3 Rocks Engineering LLC, a small disadvantaged business located in Cañon City, CO, to develop and test new prototype headgates for stormwater management and agricultural irrigation systems. The key objectives are to create more compact, efficient, and...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $370,000 Cooperative Agreement to Auburn University for the project "QUANTIFYING EFFECTS OF LOW-USE LOCK-AND-DAM STRUCTURES ON RIVERINE FISH". The award is funded under the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630), which supports scientific research with potential defense and civilian applications. The two-year project will quantify the effects of low-use lock-and-dam...

This $411,496 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to understand and predict the evolution of backward erosion piping (BEP) - a type of internal erosion that can cause failures in geotechnical flood protection infrastructure. The research aims to develop novel computational modeling capabilities to mechanistically characterize the relationship between hydraulic conditions and the time-dependent evolution of BEP. Key...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) will fund the replacement of a damaged sluiceway gate along an irrigation canal in Arizona. The $737,735 grant will enable the Navajo Nation Tribal Government to restore fish passage and prevent trapping of fish in the canal. The project will replace the existing damaged gate that was installed to assist with the return of trapped fish to the...

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 Project Grant award of $317,811 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Pittsburgh to understand and predict the evolution of backward erosion piping (BEP) in geotechnical flood protection infrastructure. The research aims to develop a stochastic multiphase computational model to gain mechanistic insights into the relationship between hydraulic conditions, soil characteristics, and the time-dependent progression...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) awarded a $142,500 Cooperative Agreement to Purdue University to support an environmental research project titled "EVALUATING SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF A CROSS-SHORE SWASH ZONE PLACEMENT". The project is funded under the Department of Defense's Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering program (CFDA 12.630), which supports scientific and technological research initiatives with potential defense...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Convergence Accelerator Track M grant to the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to develop a bio-inspired robotic system that can autonomously construct a floating conveyor network to transport palletized goods during flood events. This 12-month project, which commenced on January 15, 2024, seeks to address the growing threat of flooding in the New York City area by leveraging insights from slime mold behavior to craft swarm robot...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $400,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program to the University of Notre Dame to conduct research on the impact loads and damming effects of debris on elevated structures during flood events. The key research objectives are to: 1) Quantify the probabilistic magnitude and frequency of debris impacts, separating the impulsive loading from the structural...