The University of California, Davis received a $403,545 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on March 1, 2021 to support research titled "CAREER: DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF WATER RESOURCES SYSTEMS TO NAVIGATE UNCERTAIN HYDROLOGIC AND HUMAN STRESSORS." The grant is being administered through the NSF's Engineering Directorate under the CFDA program for Engineering. The funding will support research examining how water resource systems can dynamically adapt to navigate...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $755,416.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The objective is to develop and implement a "digital water management system" that enhances coordination among dam operators to optimize water flow and improve ecological outcomes within a watershed. The key research objectives are: 1) investigating the role of social capital in decision-making...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $553,407 Project Grant to the University of Maryland, College Park to support research titled "Game Theoretic Modeling for Improved Management of Water and Wastewater Resources Using Equilibrium Programming and Feedback Mechanisms." The three-year award, issued on June 1, 2021 under the Engineering (47.041) program, will fund the development of game theoretic models and equilibrium programming approaches to better manage water distribution...
This five-year, $457,099 National Science Foundation Engineering grant funds research and educational activities at San Diego State University addressing the environmental sustainability of wastewater infrastructure along the U.S. West Coast under conditions of sea level rise. Specifically, the project will analyze how sea level rise-induced groundwater intrusion may disrupt sewer systems, examine potential eco-toxicity impacts on marginalized communities, develop machine learning tools to...
This $220,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will fund the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to develop new mathematical tools and computational methods for designing efficient and fair water markets. The project aims to address challenges in the sustainable and equitable management of groundwater resources, which is critical for climate change adaptation in drought-affected regions. The research will...
This $120,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of Georgia to develop nonlinear control and observer designs for flow-transport systems. The three-year award beginning August 15, 2022 will fund the investigation of feedback control approaches to understand mass transport, fluid mixing, and their asymptotic behaviors in flow advection. The research aims to advance knowledge of...
This two-year, $224,990 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research to advance understanding of particle-laden gravity currents. The University of California, Santa Barbara will integrate analytical modeling, numerical simulation, laboratory experimentation, and field data to study the dynamics of gravity and particle-driven currents released...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $254,976 Project Grant to Resbonds International Corporation through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a digital platform for assessing water quality at urban-watershed interfaces. The platform will integrate physical data from advanced monitoring systems with artificial intelligence to serve as a scalable analytics platform using environmental, economic, and social data. It aims to help cities and utilities finance infrastructure projects...
This $299,999 National Science Foundation project grant through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona to develop a computational framework for the design and optimization of dynamic membrane processes. Over the three-year period from June 2022 to May 2025, the grantee will investigate salt retention, fouling, scaling and concentration polarization under transient conditions using computational fluid dynamics modeling. They...
This $1,143,430 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is developing a National Integrated Watershed Evaluation Framework to improve water resource management across the United States. The University of Arizona is the prime awardee, with no planned sub-awards. The framework will integrate diverse hydrologic datasets, from ground-based observations to remote sensing, to provide a...