This $281,419 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research to generalize drag estimation for rigid and flexible vegetation canopies and quantify their interactions with water flow. The University of Illinois, the primary awardee, will conduct experiments and numerical simulations to investigate how different types of aquatic plant canopies affect water flow and drag forces. The research aims to enhance the ability to...
This $259,328 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at Tulane University to develop novel methods for real-time streamflow estimation and forecasting. The University will integrate direct measurements with numerical models to more accurately capture short-term flood wave propagation effects and seasonal impacts of riparian vegetation changes. Researchers will combine experimental, data-driven, and physics-based modeling to enable...
The University of Minnesota will receive $446,973 from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct experimental and numerical studies of bubble entrainment by breaking waves from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The research aims to advance understanding of the physical processes controlling bubble generation and dispersal in ocean waves and their dependence on factors like wave scale, slope, wind forcing, and salinity. Researchers will leverage...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $443,794 Project Grant from the US Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes federal grant program (CFDA 15.805). The grant will support research analyzing sediment transport and legacy phosphorus mobilization across spatial and temporal scales in agricultural watersheds located in Minnesota. Specifically, the university researchers will assemble and collect hydrologic and water quality data across...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA 47.041 (Engineering) provides $490,525.00 to The Regents of the University of Minnesota, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, to conduct research on stochastic modeling of turbulence over rough surfaces. The goal is to develop a new model that can accurately represent the velocity field and dynamics of near-surface turbulence, which is critical for applications like wind energy and pollution...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,841 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Duluth under the agency's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The purpose of this 2-year project, starting March 15, 2024, is to evaluate the effects of urban soil profiles and water infrastructure on surface-subsurface hydrologic processes in urban watersheds. The research aims to improve urban hydrologic models and quantify the costs/benefits of infrastructure rehabilitation...
This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences totals $407,205 to fund research titled "FLOODPLAIN ECOGEOMORPHIC PROCESSES: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FLOODPLAIN FOREST CHARACTERISTICS, WOOD ACCUMULATIONS, AND HYDROGEOMORPHOLOGY." Awarded August 1, 2021 to the University of Colorado with completion by July 31, 2024, the funding supports the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic...
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...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $368,342 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the project "MCA: Multi-Scale Considerations of Climatic Signatures on Debris Flows and Alluvial Fans" from August 1, 2021 to July 31, 2024. The Geosciences program aims to strengthen understanding of Earth's integrated system through basic research support in atmospheric, Earth, and ocean sciences. This three-year grant will support...
This $553,400 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a multi-scale experimental and numerical investigation of the impacts of turbulence and vegetation on flow and solute transport in the hyporheic zone. The Regents of the University of Minnesota will combine laboratory flume experiments, numerical simulation, and field experiments in an outdoor stream to quantify how vegetation and turbulence affect surface-subsurface exchange and influence water quality and biogeochemical cycling. The results are intended to improve predictions of contaminant transport and biogeochemical cycling in streams and other aquatic ecosystems. The project will also support graduate and undergraduate student training, including for underrepresented groups, and develop a hands-on demonstration activity for K-12 outreach. The work will be performed in Minneapolis, Minnesota from December 1, 2022 through November 30, 2025.