Project Grant 2125441

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $201,438 to Colorado State University to study the role of large wood in promoting channel-floodplain connectivity for river restoration. The university will collect data from natural channels on characteristics of logjam formations and their influence on hydrologic connectivity between channels and adjacent floodplains. Researchers will use this data to develop guidelines for...

This three-year, $352,826 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at the University of Texas at Austin to quantify river-floodplain connectivity of the Trinity River in Texas. The university will analyze exchanges of water, solutes, and solids between the river and its floodplain by treating channel banks as moving internal boundaries. Researchers will use extensive field observations, LiDAR data sets, numerical modeling and...

The National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences awarded a $180,000 Project Grant to Dr. Bolton Howes for the "POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: EAR-PF: LINKING THE PAST TO THE FUTURE: USING PETM FLUVIAL RECORDS TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON RIVERS" project. The two-year project, running from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2026, will be carried out under the mentorship of Dr. Akshay Mehra at the University of Washington and Dr. Brady Foreman at Western Washington University....

This five-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, totaling $499,120, will assess how human activities have altered floodplain organic carbon stocks across the contiguous United States. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the grantee—the Regents of the University of Colorado—will conduct extensive fieldwork comparing carbon storage in modified and unmodified floodplains. The project will...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support collaborative research to quantify the contribution of wetlands and floodplains to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from streams and rivers. The $300,000 award to Yale University will fund a 3-year project that combines computer modeling and field measurements to determine the magnitude, frequency, and duration of water exchange between these aquatic habitats and adjacent rivers. The...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), is focused on studying the interactions between aquatic plant canopies and water flow. The $213,511 award will fund research to enhance the understanding of how flexible and rigid plant structures in river environments affect water flow and drag forces. The project involves a combination of experiments and numerical simulations to investigate these complex plant-water interactions, with the...

This $403,680 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research to improve streamflow monitoring and forecasting methods. The University of Iowa will enhance protocols for continuously monitoring streamflows to more accurately capture effects of flood wave propagation and seasonal riparian vegetation changes. Researchers will integrate direct measurements with numerical models to enable real-time estimation and forecasting of streamflow...

This two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $180,000 to researchers at Arizona State University to study the present and future flood mitigation services of wetland infrastructure across scales in two cities. The researchers will collect data on and model the stormwater management functions of wetlands in Gresham, Oregon and Valdivia, Chile, which both have extensive wetland coverage. Functions to be examined include surface water...

This $150,939 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) aims to advance research capacity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and scientific literacy to mitigate the impacts of climate change-driven flash flooding in vulnerable rural communities across the Appalachian region. The 4-year project will integrate engineering, environmental science, and social science to: 1) improve...

The National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $998,891 project grant to the University of Washington to study river avulsion risk and incorporate it into floodplain management practices. The project, titled "RAISE: Integrating River-Avulsion Risk into Floodplain Management," will focus on the Nooksack River in Washington and work with local governments to develop actionable solutions for managing the risks associated with river avulsions, which can...