OpportunityTitle: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Piedmont South Atlantic Coast (CESU)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESU&#226;&#191;&#191;s are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be participating partners of Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast  Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Program
Description: The US Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, is offering a funding opportunity to systematically analyze the spatio-temporal variability of land-surface hydrologic fluxes in natural and human-altered watersheds worldwide. The goal is to extend the framework for estimating land-surface fluxes in human-altered watersheds and to relate anthropogenic signatures such as flow alterations and evapotranspiration-induced urban heat island effects using global datasets. Specific objectives include: evaluate existing Budyko frameworks/relationships to explain the spatial variability of seasonal and annual hydroclimatology; quantify the sensitivity of land-surface fluxes to changes in climatic and land-surface controls at global scale; extend the Budyko supply-to-demand framework to capture other signatures of human influence on streamflow (e.g., flow alterations) and evapotranspiration (e.g., urban heat island, irrigation impacts and land use changes); and synthesize the influence of large-scale climate and local/regional anthropogenic influences on watershed-level hydroclimatology.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Contract Specialist
GrantorContactText: Faith Graves 703-648-7356&lt;br/&gt;fgraves@usgs.gov&lt;br/&gt;