This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $599,107 provides funding from February 15, 2022 through January 31, 2025 to the University of Arizona for the BIORETS program. The program will conserve water resources and riparian biodiversity in the Santa Cruz River through treated wastewater effluent releases. Three teacher cohorts will collaborate with ecologists and natural resource managers over three years to study the impacts of effluent on aquatic and riparian species...
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...
This $430,230 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) will fund a 3-year research project at the University of Arizona to develop the next generation of U.S. water accounting and natural capital accounting methods. The key products and services to be delivered include: Spatially disaggregating USGS water use datasets from 2000-2015 into a high-resolution 30-meter raster data product...
The University of Arizona was awarded a $466,484 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to conduct research related to concentration-ratio-discharge relationships of transient water-age distributions. Specifically, the University will collaborate on research examining the dynamics of water movement and mixing within watersheds and aquifers through the project period of January 15, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The research is intended to strengthen...
This $425,200 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Arizona State University from July 2022 through June 2024 towards understanding responses to climate change and invasion vulnerability in drylands of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The research will combine geospatial techniques such as species distribution modeling with a trait-based methodology to assess amphibian species' vulnerability to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $300,000 to Arizona State University (ASU) to investigate technologies for maximizing the use of water as a resource and extracting resources found in water. The project examines efforts to make wastewater usable through membrane-based filtration technologies and retrofittable fermenters, and explores the social and environmental implications of these...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,275,000 Project Grant under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program to the University of New Mexico (UNM) for the "LTER: SEVILLETA SITE: ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY AT DRYLAND ECOTONES" research project. This 6-year project, running from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2030, will study the ecology of environmental variability in dryland ecosystems, focusing on understanding how changes in the mean and variance of water resources...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $175,324 to the University of Arizona to conduct collaborative research on the fluid dynamics of biological and bioinspired filtering structures. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing open-source numerical software to elucidate the fluid dynamics of filtering arrays, including how the behavior of active...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) provides $449,842 to Arizona State University (ASU) to empower diverse cohorts of undergraduate and graduate students to conduct interdisciplinary, community-based water resources research in the Vilcanota Urubamba Basin in Peru. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Training and empowering three diverse student cohorts from Rutgers...
This award is a Cooperative Agreement from the National Park Service's (NPS) Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program, providing $133,439 to the University of Arizona to develop a detailed synthesis of macroinvertebrates in perennial river systems of the Sonoran Desert (SODN) and Southern Plains (SOPN) National Parks. The project will leverage an existing macroinvertebrate dataset spanning 2012-2023, gridded climate data, and U.S....
This $469,781 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research and educational activities at the University of Arizona focused on conserving water resources and riparian biodiversity in the desert climate of southern Arizona.
The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year grant include:
Collaborations between teachers, ecologists, and natural resource managers to study the impacts of treated wastewater effluent on aquatic and riparian species in the Santa Cruz River. This will involve collecting and analyzing data on aquatic invertebrates, riparian birds/mammals, turtles, and wetland plants.
Development of K-12 curriculum and student participation in ecological studies related to water resource conservation and river ecosystem restoration.
Analysis of how ecological communities change over time as the Santa Cruz River is rewetted using the treated effluent, with the goal of informing sustainable water management decisions in the region.
The grant does not include any sub-awards. The project commenced on May 1, 2025 and is scheduled for completion by April 30, 2028.