OpportunityTitle: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU&#191;s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be participating partners of Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Program.
Description: U.S. Geological Survey&#191;s (USGS) Powell Center is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research on &#191;Reanalyzing and Predicting U.S. Water Use using Economic History and Forecast Data; an experiment in short-range national hydro-economic data synthesis.&#191; The project will develop relationships between demographic, economic, climate, hydrologic, and water use data for counties and watersheds within the U.S. Multiple, cross-disciplinary datasets will be synthesized, resulting in production of a reanalysis data product with monthly timescale coverage of county-level water use in the U.S. back to 1960, and with the capability to conduct short-range (quarterly, seasonal, monthly) water-use forecasts based on climate and economic forecast data.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Contract Specialist
GrantorContactText: Faith Graves 703-648-7356&lt;br/&gt;fgraves@usgs.gov