OpportunityTitle: Water Resources Research National Competitive Grants Program
CategoryExplanation: The U S  Geological Survey in cooperation with the National Institutes for Water Resources requests proposals for matching grants to support research on the topic of improving and enhancing the nations water supply including evaluation of innovative approaches to water treatment infrastructure design retrofitting maintenance management and replacement exploration and advancement of our understanding of changes in the quantity and quality of water resources in response to a changing climate population shifts and land use changes development of methods for better estimation of water supply both surface and groundwater including estimation of the physical supply and of the economic supply of water development and evaluation of processes and governance mechanisms for integrated surface ground water management and the evaluation and assessment of conservation practices
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Awards are available only to Water Research Institutes or Centers established pursuant to the provisions of section 104 of the Water Resources Research Act and listed at  (http://water.usgs.gov/wrri/index.php). However, any investigator at an institution of higher learning in the United States is eligible to apply for an award through a Water Research Institute or Center. All portions of the preproposals must be submitted through their State Water Institute  or Center by the deadline established in this announcement. The invited full proposal along with the SF-424 and SF-424B and budget forms must be submitted through grants.gov (  http://www.grants.gov) by the university at which the Institute or Center is located. Each invited full proposal will then be authorized for inclusion in the national competition by the Director of the Institute or Center in the state in which the university of the principal investigator is located. Proposals requesting matching funds from an Institute or Center are authorized at the discretion of the Institute or Center Director.
Description: Section 104(g) of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 requires that this competitive grant program focus on water problems and issues of a regional or interstate nature beyond those of concern only to a single State and which relate to specific program priorities identified jointly by the Secretary of the Interior and the water resources research institutes
GrantorContactEmailDescription: kdove@usgs.gov
GrantorContactText: Grant Specialist Kimberly Dove 703-648-7487&lt;br/&gt;kdove@usgs.gov&lt;br/&gt;