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The Climate and Water Resources Research and Related Technical Support opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number BOR DO 16 011) is a U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (DOI-BOR) discretionary funding notice that uses a cooperative agreement to support targeted research and technical assistance tied to water management challenges in the Western United States. The Bureau of Reclamation is specifically seeking to partner with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Research Applications Laboratory (RAL), housed within the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, because RAL has established capabilities for designing, developing, and carrying out applied climate and water research that aligns with Reclamation's mission and also supports other federal, state, and local agencies. The emphasis is on producing actionable science and practical tools that water managers and other practitioners can actually use, rather than purely academic research.

The work envisioned under the cooperative agreement is organized around project-based efforts that strengthen the scientific foundation for effective water management. A central theme is improving understanding of atmospheric and climate processes and how they affect the hydrologic cycle, with direct relevance to water supply and water use across the Western U.S. In practice, this can include advancing methods, data, modeling, or decision-support approaches that help explain or anticipate climate-driven variability and change, and then translate that information into something operationally meaningful for planning and management.

In addition to climate and atmospheric drivers, the opportunity highlights the importance of the broader set of interacting systems that shape hydrology and water availability. This includes physical, biological, and social systems that influence the hydrologic cycle and the resulting water supplies and uses in the region. The framing suggests an interest in interdisciplinary work that connects climate signals and hydrologic responses with ecosystem dynamics, human demands, and management constraints, reflecting the reality that western water decisions sit at the intersection of natural processes and human systems.

Another major focus area is uncertainty: not just quantifying scientific uncertainty, but characterizing it in ways that can be clearly communicated and used in decision-making. The notice explicitly calls out the need to better frame and inform water management decisions through improved treatment and communication of uncertainty. That typically means work that helps decision-makers understand what is known, what is uncertain, why it is uncertain, and how to incorporate that uncertainty into risk-aware planning, rather than treating scientific outputs as single deterministic answers.

Financially, the opportunity lists an award ceiling of up to $2,500,000 and anticipates a single award. The activity category is Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and it is associated with CFDA number 15.560. The posting and creation dates are March 21, 2016, with an original and current closing date of April 5, 2016. While the eligibility field is broadly labeled "Others" with additional clarification referenced elsewhere, the narrative makes clear that Reclamation intends this as a partnership with NCAR RAL based on its specialized capabilities. Finally, the notice indicates that projects will generally be chosen to align with well-established water resources management needs, including those documented in relevant references, and selected by Reclamation as high priority, reinforcing that the funded work is meant to directly support pressing management challenges rather than open-ended research topics.

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