U. S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) Program is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU Partner for research on water budget monitoring technology.
In-situ based evapotranspiration (ET) measurements are needed for developing water budgets, calibrating
hydrologic models, and validating satellite-based ET estimates.
However, large scale in-situ measurements of ET are expensive and laborious due to sensor and data processing requirements of the traditional eddy covariance approach.
This opportunity will support the evaluation of a promising new sensor technology and advance the overall understanding of how similar technologies could fill the current monitoring gaps.