This $620,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) supports South Dakota State University in developing a scalable decision support tool (S-DST) for equitable water resource allocation and drought mitigation in the Missouri River Basin.
The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year project include: (1) analyzing climate change projections to assess drought risks, (2) developing physically-based hydrologic models and machine learning algorithms to integrate climate data and predict drought, and (3) creating an open-source, user-friendly S-DST tool for water resource managers to optimize allocation and prioritize adaptation strategies. The S-DST framework will also serve as an educational resource for vulnerable communities to quantify site-specific climate risks and identify effective mitigation measures.
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