Project Grant G20AP00005

This $300,236 National Science Foundation project grant will fund collaborative research exploring the influence of agricultural tile drainage on streamflow and water temperatures in the Midwestern United States. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen the national scientific enterprise, this research will develop quantile regression models to examine how tile drainage alters streamflow and water...

The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) within the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded a $750,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University from June 2023 through May 2027. The grant will fund research to better understand soil erosion processes in agricultural floodplains along the East Fork White River in Indiana. Specifically, the university will directly measure soil erosion on the...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (CFDA 10.902 Soil and Water Conservation), provides $374,182 to the University of Wisconsin System to install and operate edge-of-field water quality monitoring stations. The goal is to enable agricultural producers and scientists to quantify the impacts of conservation activities on water quality. The University of Wisconsin System will install two edge-of-field monitoring stations...

This four-year, $649,915 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310) will fund research at Clemson University to develop strategies for improving phosphorus use efficiency in crop production while limiting the uptake of toxic trace elements from phosphate rock. Through laboratory, greenhouse, and field experiments coupled with geochemical modeling, the research...

Summary: Quaternary Stratigraphy of Hendricks County, Indiana The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) awarded a $245,319 Cooperative Agreement to the Trustees of Indiana University for a two-year project running from September 30, 2025, through September 29, 2027. The project delivers subsurface geologic data and analysis of glacial sediments in Hendricks County, Indiana, to support water resource management, land-use planning, and infrastructure...

The federal Project Grant award of $418,381.00, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (CFDA 10.912), will support research at Purdue University to develop accurate methods for assessing corn nitrogen status using high spatial-spectral proximal sensing. The project, titled "ACCURATE ASSESSMENT OF CORN NITROGEN STATUS WITH HIGH SPATIAL-SPECTRAL PROXIMAL SENSING," aims to provide...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $399,900 to Lehigh University to develop a human-centered modeling approach that simulates best management practices (BMPs) and behaviors under uncertainty to meet water quality guidelines. The project, titled "A HUMAN-CENTERED MODELING APPROACH TO SIMULATE BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND BEHAVIORS UNDER UNCERTAINTY TO MEET WATER QUALITY GUIDELINES", combines...

This $179,640 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) project grant, awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, aims to improve understanding of nitrogen pollution in agricultural watersheds and develop better methods for managing and reducing this pollution. The project uses a combination of field experiments, sensor technology, and computer-based mapping tools to study the causes of post-storm nitrate enrichment - elevated nitrate levels in streams after storms....

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Water Resources Research Act (WRRA) Program (CFDA 15.805) provides $416,267 to Purdue University to conduct research on the impacts of hydrologic intensification on long-term water budgets across the Continental United States. The key project activities include evaluating hourly precipitation data, investigating the historical relationship between rainfall and runoff, and simulating future rainfall distribution and...

This four-year, $1.6 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research into the climate mitigation and adaptation potential of cover crops in Midwestern U.S. agroecosystems. Led by Indiana University, the project aims to examine social, environmental, and economic factors governing the adoption and effectiveness of cover crops as a natural climate solution through intensive field studies, remote sensing, producer interviews and...