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Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program FY 2024
The United States Department of the Interior (Department), Bureau of Reclamation’s (Reclamation) Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (Program) aims to improve the skill of water supply forecasts via enhancing snow monitoring through the deployment of emerging technologies to complement existing
monitoring techniques and networks.
This program was authorized in December 2020 by P.L.
116-260, Sec.
1111, Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program Authorization Act.
The program was authorized for FY 2022-FY 202 6. Reservoir operations and related water management decisions rely on estimates of current and future water availability.
These estimates depend on technologies to observe basin conditions such as snowpack.
In many Western basins, snowpack and subsequent snowmelt runoff constitutes a significant portion of the annual water supply.
Accordingly, monitoring snowpack is of great interest to water managers and water users alike.
Traditionally, basin snowpack information is based on a sparse network of observing stations across large watersheds.
These networks provide high quality information at station locations but extrapolating that information to an entire watershed is a challenge.
This challenge, in large part, motivates the Program.
As such, the NOFO invites proposals from eligible applicants that are invested in and capable of demonstrating emerging or deploying existing snow monitoring technologies and/or use of snow monitoring data to enhance water supply forecast skill.
Considering this and the Act’s emphasis on partner agency coordination, strong applications will have partnerships with water management and forecasting entities to facilitate transfer of knowledge, foster use of data in forecasts, and evaluate utility of information for informing water management decisions.
This supports Department of the Interior priority of addressing the drought crisis by providing water managers the best available information to inform the management of this scarce and critical resource.
Applicants must submit technical proposals in the required format and length as specified in Section D.
2. 1. 4 Project Proposal as well as with the required content.
Eligible projects must include the implementation of aerial LiDAR snow surveys.
This program was authorized in December 2020 by P.L.
116-260, Sec.
1111, Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program Authorization Act.
The program was authorized for FY 2022-FY 202 6. Reservoir operations and related water management decisions rely on estimates of current and future water availability.
These estimates depend on technologies to observe basin conditions such as snowpack.
In many Western basins, snowpack and subsequent snowmelt runoff constitutes a significant portion of the annual water supply.
Accordingly, monitoring snowpack is of great interest to water managers and water users alike.
Traditionally, basin snowpack information is based on a sparse network of observing stations across large watersheds.
These networks provide high quality information at station locations but extrapolating that information to an entire watershed is a challenge.
This challenge, in large part, motivates the Program.
As such, the NOFO invites proposals from eligible applicants that are invested in and capable of demonstrating emerging or deploying existing snow monitoring technologies and/or use of snow monitoring data to enhance water supply forecast skill.
Considering this and the Act’s emphasis on partner agency coordination, strong applications will have partnerships with water management and forecasting entities to facilitate transfer of knowledge, foster use of data in forecasts, and evaluate utility of information for informing water management decisions.
This supports Department of the Interior priority of addressing the drought crisis by providing water managers the best available information to inform the management of this scarce and critical resource.
Applicants must submit technical proposals in the required format and length as specified in Section D.
2. 1. 4 Project Proposal as well as with the required content.
Eligible projects must include the implementation of aerial LiDAR snow surveys.
Who's Eligible
Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
NSF Publication 24-555
Additional Information of Eligibility:
*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies and similar organizations located in the U. S. that are directly associated with educational or research activities.
-Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) - Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf of their faculty members.Special Instructions for International Branch Campuses of US IHEs: If the proposal includes funding to be provided to an international branch campus of a US institution of higher education (including through use of subawards and consultant arrangements), the proposer must explain the benefit(s) to the project of performance at the international branch campus, and justify why the project activities cannot be performed at the US campus.
-Tribal Nations: An American Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges as a federally recognized tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994, 25 U.S.C.
§§ 5130-5131.
Full Opportunity Web Address:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf24555
Contact:
Agency Email Description:
bor-sha-fafoa@usbr.gov
Agency Email:
Date Posted:
2024-03-05
Application Due Date:
Archive Date:
2030-03-15
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