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Water Resources Research National Competitive Grants
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https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=338699Support Agency:
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USGS Water Resources Research Institutes
1173 Glenn L. Martin Hall
College Park, Maryland 20742
College Park, Maryland 20742
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The goals of the National Competitive Grants program are to promote collaboration between the USGS and university scientists in research on significant national and regional water resources issues; promote the dissemination and results of the research funded under this program; and to assist in the training of scientists in water resources. Successful research topics have included research on improving and enhancing the nation's water supply, developing innovative approaches to water treatment, and the evaluation and assessment of conservation practices.
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Funding AssistanceFunding Range:
Up to $250,000 over one to three year range; 1:1 match requiredRestoration Activity:
Proposals are sought in not only the physical dimensions of supply and demand, but also quality trends in raw water supplies, the role of economics and institutions in water supply and demand, institutional arrangements for tracking and reporting water supply and availability, and institutional arrangements for coping with extreme hydrological conditions.Eligibility:
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
