The University of Arizona, doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents, received a $1,143,430 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) on September 1, 2024. The grant supports the development of a National Integrated Watershed Evaluation Framework, a community-driven cyberinfrastructure platform to improve modeling, evaluation, and decision-making for water resource management across the United States. This effort aims to integrate diverse hydrologic datasets and provide tools for model benchmarking and watershed exploration by both experts and non-experts. The project will engage water managers, modeling experts, and federal agencies to deliver a comprehensive framework for evaluating the state of watersheds and the performance of water models, addressing the challenge of fragmented hydrologic data and the need for agile tools to diagnose changing watershed conditions. The award reflects NSF's strategic priorities in advancing computational capabilities, enabling data-driven discovery, and supporting research infrastructure to address critical national needs.
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