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The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Colorado Plateau CESU funding opportunity (G16AS00078) is a US Geological Survey award offered through the John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis. It supports research and development aimed at improving national-scale understanding and prediction of water quality in U.S. streams and rivers by modeling how physical processes and biogeochemical dynamics interact across river corridors. The core motivation is that hydrologic exchange zones, places where water moves between the main channel and surrounding sediments, floodplains, and subsurface flow paths, can strongly influence how nutrients, contaminants, heat, and organic matter are transported, transformed, or retained. The project is designed to make those exchange processes more visible and usable in national datasets and models so cumulative water-quality effects can be assessed more realistically.

The work is organized around four main deliverables. First, the project will assemble critical new hydrogeomorphic data for the nation s streams and rivers by pulling information together from disparate sources. This means compiling and harmonizing data that describe the physical setting of river corridors, such as channel and valley characteristics, geomorphic indicators related to exchange potential, and other attributes that influence where and how water leaves and re-enters the channel. Second, the compiled data will be processed into a form that can be integrated with the National Hydrography Dataset (NHDPlus). This step matters because NHDPlus is a foundational geospatial framework used widely across federal agencies and academia, and improving the attributes tied to river corridor processes can raise the accuracy of many transport, exposure, and watershed models that rely on it. Third, the improved dataset will be incorporated into a river corridor transport model referred to as NEXSS. The intent is to keep the model physically based, meaning grounded in the underlying mechanics of transport and exchange, while still parsimonious enough to run at nationwide scale. In practical terms, the model should be detailed enough to account for hydrologic exchange zones without becoming so complex that it cannot be applied consistently across the entire U.S. river network. Fourth, the project will use the resulting model outputs to identify key physical and biogeochemical controls on water quality, evaluate cumulative effects across connected river systems, and forecast how water quality may change under different conditions at the scale of the nation.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity issued by DOI USGS and funded through a cooperative agreement, indicating substantial involvement or collaboration with the federal partner during the project. The program is categorized under Science and Technology and other Research and Development, with CFDA number 15.808. The opportunity anticipated a single award with an award ceiling of 100,000. The posting and creation dates were June 2, 2016, and the closing date was June 17, 2016. Eligibility is listed as Others, with additional eligibility details referenced in the full announcement. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as an applied synthesis and modeling effort: it focuses on building a better national hydrogeomorphic dataset, embedding that dataset into a scalable transport modeling framework, and using the improved modeling capability to support national assessments and forecasts of stream and river water quality.

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