Project Grant 2041826

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...

This $1,100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program supports an innovative research collaboration between New Mexico State University (NMSU) and local stakeholders in northern New Mexico. The goal is to enhance the resilience of traditional acequia irrigation systems and associated socio-environmental systems to climate change and other emerging challenges. The project employs a convergence research approach that integrates...

This $420,167 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of Virginia to develop integrated drought management policies for the Upper Colorado River Basin. The goal is to evaluate potential economic, environmental and social impacts of droughts under current water management practices versus forecast-informed coordination of water markets and critical infrastructure operations. The research team will analyze impacts using regression models and develop an...

This Project Grant award of $371,679, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports research and education initiatives to quantify dynamic landscape connectivity and its impacts on water quality across the United States. The project, titled "CAREER: Dynamic Connectivity: A Research and Educational Frontier for Sustainable Environmental Management under Climate and Land Use Uncertainty," will leverage high-frequency aquatic sensors, deep...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $498,012 Project Grant to Stanford University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant supports research to develop new adaptive management strategies for water supply planning that address uncertainty in climate trends, multi-year oscillations, and annual variability. Specifically, the university will design approaches to decompose precipitation uncertainty into different timescales and quantify opportunities to reduce...

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...

This five-year $409,104 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Cornell University to develop physics-informed machine learning techniques for climate adaptation pathways modeling in eco-hydrologic systems. Specifically, the grantee will apply innovative machine learning approaches to process-guided climate simulation, hydrologic prediction, and sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting to examine climate change mechanisms influencing the Lake Ontario system. The grantee will...

This $166,266 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop integrated drought management policies for the Upper Colorado River Basin. The researchers will evaluate the economic and environmental impacts of droughts on agricultural and urban communities under current water management practices. They will then develop and analyze alternative plans that coordinate forecast-informed...

This $499,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) will fund research at Cornell University to advance optimization frameworks for multi-use water management in the Delaware River Basin. The project aims to clarify tradeoffs and vulnerabilities in the basin's water management strategies under the impacts of climate change, shifting human system demands, and land use changes. Key...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award provides $519,052 to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct research on using real-time control of hydraulic infrastructure like dams to reduce nutrient pollution in river networks. The project aims to develop computational models, estimation methods, and control strategies to mitigate the impacts of nutrient pollution and algal blooms in watersheds, effectively treating them like water treatment plants....