Project Grant G22AP00029

This Project Grant award of $700,000 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) is focused on improving computational models that describe the relationship between climate and streamflow. The project aims to address uncertainty in these models caused by the influence of human actions on the water cycle, with a specific focus on representing the impacts of dams, which control about 75% of annual runoff in the continental United States. The project will develop a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will provide $500,000 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2029. The project will develop an integrated, real-time forecasting system that predicts water quality in three drinking water reservoirs in Appalachia. By coupling terrestrial and freshwater models, the system will...

This $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a study to evaluate the resilience of small community water systems (CWS) in southwest Florida during Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024. The project, led by Montclair State University, aims to rapidly collect data on the adaptive behaviors of small CWS across six counties through surveys, site visits, and a workshop. The data will be analyzed to assess storm adaptation,...

This two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $180,000 to researchers at Arizona State University to study the present and future flood mitigation services of wetland infrastructure across scales in two cities. The researchers will collect data on and model the stormwater management functions of wetlands in Gresham, Oregon and Valdivia, Chile, which both have extensive wetland coverage. Functions to be examined include surface water...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey's Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) provides $165,000 to Purdue University to develop new computer models and tools that can improve flood prediction and risk assessment capabilities across large geographic areas. The project aims to create detailed maps of river depths, analyze how water moves through urban drainage systems, and integrate this information into a comprehensive flood...

The National Science Foundation awarded $712,190 to Arizona State University under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for the project "CAS-CLIMATE: A NOVEL PROCESS-DRIVEN METHOD FOR FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS BASED ON MIXED DISTRIBUTIONS." The award period is from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The project will develop a new approach to flood frequency analysis that incorporates the effects of multiple physical mechanisms leading to flood generation. Researchers will identify...

This $420,167 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of Virginia to develop integrated drought management policies for the Upper Colorado River Basin. The goal is to evaluate potential economic, environmental and social impacts of droughts under current water management practices versus forecast-informed coordination of water markets and critical infrastructure operations. The research team will analyze impacts using regression models and develop an...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Cooperative Agreement award of $231,304, granted to the West Virginia University Research Corporation, will support a collaborative research initiative focused on mitigating the impacts of climate change and flash flooding in the Appalachian region. The key products and services to be delivered through this 4-year project include: Advancing hydrologic science to better understand the controls of flash floods in disturbed...

This five-year, $460,399 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research and education initiatives focused on improving flood hazard assessments. The principal investigator at Northeastern University will establish a long-term floodplain sedimentation observatory and develop hydraulic models to better understand landscape controls on alluvial sedimentation patterns. This work will help constrain flood hazard estimates through...

This $673,418 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at North Carolina State University to improve understanding of monthly flood dynamics over the southeastern and south-central United States. Specifically, the university will quantify shifts in flood climatology, identify moisture delivery pathways for floods, and attribute sources of modulation for floods' spatiotemporal variability. Researchers will examine historical...