Project Grant 59620630055

This $416,267 federal Project Grant award under the U.S. Geological Survey's Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes (CFDA 15.805) program will support a 3-year research project at Purdue University to investigate the impacts of hydrologic intensification on long-term water budgets across the continental United States. The key activities and deliverables include: Evaluating hourly precipitation data to study the historical dependence of water-year runoff on sub-seasonal...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $713,795 Project Grant under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to develop advanced hydrodynamic and water quality modeling capabilities for the Lower Colorado River Basin. The project aims to use a "backcasting" approach to rigorously define scenarios likely to cause problems for water managers and water supplies in the region. Model simulations across a wide range of drivers will be...

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection Program (CFDA 15.808) Cooperative Agreement award of $200,000 aims to enhance understanding of how varying water availability affects agricultural production and local economies. Awarded to the University of California, Merced (UC Merced) and the University of California, Davis, the project will: Comprehensively review current hydro-economic and agro-economic modeling tools to identify strengths and weaknesses, laying the groundwork...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Reclamation's Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) supports the Headwaters of the Colorado (HOC) Initiative, a multi-stakeholder collaboration focused on building resilient and functioning forested headwaters within the Little Snake and Yampa watersheds in Wyoming and Colorado. The funding will enable the HOC partnership, which includes federal and state land management agencies, private landowners, and local community...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $623,849.55 Cooperative Agreement grant to Hydroinnova LLC on February 9, 2024 under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078). The 2.5-year project aims to demonstrate and deploy two novel methods for measuring snow water equivalent, a critical parameter for improving water supply forecasts in drought-prone regions of the western U.S. Specifically, Hydroinnova will develop, test, and validate a cosmic ray muon...

This $599,998 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to estimate the emergence of anthropogenic climate change signals in snow water resource metrics in mountainous regions. Led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, the project will use an innovative modeling framework including a large ensemble climate model and process-based hydrological modeling. It aims to strengthen understanding of when and how much climate change...

This $499,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) will fund research at Cornell University to advance optimization frameworks for multi-use water management in the Delaware River Basin. The project aims to clarify tradeoffs and vulnerabilities in the basin's water management strategies under the impacts of climate change, shifting human system demands, and land use changes. Key...

The University of Massachusetts, through its Office of Grant & Contract Administration, was awarded a $498,999.38 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805). This 3-year project aims to improve understanding of how climate variability is impacting subsurface water storage and hydrological processes in the Northeastern United States. Key deliverables include: 1) analysis of historical water...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements (CFDA 15.560) program, will leverage technical and hydrologic information to enhance public understanding of hydrology and water management across the 17 western states. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), as the awardee, will create an online portal and data hub to present accessible, interactive content and tools that simplify...

This $485,717 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) to Iowa State University of Science and Technology. The project, titled "AI-Driven Hydrologic Analysis and Communication Hub for Enhanced Water Resource Management in Iowa," aims to develop an innovative, AI-powered platform to transform water resource management across the United States, with a focus on Iowa as the initial...