Project Grant DESC0020471

This $650,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of engineered microbial sensors for assessing water quality. The primary objective is to create new low-cost sensing systems that can detect chemicals in water throughout the water cycle, including wastewater treatment, drinking water, industrial use, and stormwater discharges. The project employs a convergence research...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $303,703 to develop a novel approach for characterizing hydrostratigraphy using water level data collected from multi-level monitoring wells. The University of Iowa will collect water level measurements every 10 seconds from 10 to 15 depths in monitoring wells located at a contaminated groundwater site. Analyzing the response of water levels to rainfall and pumping changes will help delineate the...

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 $2,495,019 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development and deployment of a smart, cloud-connected electrochemical sensor network to monitor drinking water quality in several socioeconomically diverse Massachusetts communities. The University of Massachusetts Lowell will work with community stakeholders and sub-awardees Loyola University Chicago, the Young Women's...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $213,430 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Ohio State University to develop a novel, miniature, fiber-optic multiparameter sensor capable of simultaneously measuring critical water quality and greenhouse gas parameters in lakes. The goal is to create an easy-to-deploy, cost-effective sensor that can provide high-resolution, year-round data to better understand the carbon...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) provides $249,965 to Northern Arizona University (NAU) to conduct research and development on an automated image-based flood stage monitoring system, known as HYDROCAMS. The project aims to experimentally address key technical challenges in deploying a scalable, low-cost hydrological monitoring network using compact, grid-independent "HYDROCAM"...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Zepsor Technologies Inc. a $275,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a first-of-its-kind micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)-based proximity sensor with near-zero power consumption. The project aims to create an uncooled infrared detector capable of reliably detecting a hand at a distance of 2-10 cm while consuming less than 1 microamp of current in standby mode. This...

This five-year, $800,071 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the development of an integrated hydrologic model to better understand groundwater dynamics in the Great Lakes Basin. The awardee, Michigan Technological University, will fuse hydrologic modeling with GPS, satellite imagery, and GRACE data to more accurately simulate surface and subsurface flows. Through data assimilation, the project will produce historical and forecast...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $575,089.48 Cooperative Agreement under the SECURE Water Act - Research Agreements program (CFDA 15.560) to Natural Ocean Well CO. on March 19, 2024. The project proposes to install and evaluate a submerged water filtration system in the Las Virgenes Reservoir. Submerged water filtration is an unconventional approach that can reduce energy requirements by leveraging natural hydrostatic pressure, while also protecting the system from atmospheric climate...

This $249,850 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a research project to investigate hydrologic flow in the deep critical zone, the region from the top of the canopy to the depth of the bedrock where water, atmosphere, ecosystems, soils and rocks interact. The project will use time-lapse geophysical imaging techniques to examine the response of the deep critical zone to large precipitation events at a watershed site...