Lower Mississippi River Sediment and Ecohydrology Studies — Dept. of the Army -- Corps of Engineers funding opportunity
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Lower Mississippi River Sediment and Ecohydrology Studies

Background: The development of the Mississippi River and its floodplain for navigation and flood control has been ongoing since the 18th century, with the most concerted efforts occurring as a result of the Flood Control...

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Award $0–$450k Deadline 2322 days ago Location Alabama Type grant Level Federal Closed posted Feb 21, 2020
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  • Who can apply: Federal-level applicants (see eligibility for details).
  • Funding amount: up to $450,000 (total pool ~$450,000).
  • Next deadline: April 10, 2020.
  • Issued by: Dept. of the Army -- Corps of Engineers.
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  • Eligible applicants: see the Eligibility tab for the criteria from the official announcement.
  • Where: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, District of Columbia.
  • Award: $0–$450k. Total program pool: $450,000.
  • Matching funds: not required.
  • Deadline type: Fixed.

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Dept. of the Army -- Corps of Engineers is a federal-level funder.

Award amount
$0–$450k
Deadline
2322 days ago
Apr 10, 2020
Total pool
$450k

About this opportunity

Background: The development of the Mississippi River and its floodplain for navigation and flood control has been ongoing since the 18th century, with the most concerted efforts occurring as a result of the Flood Control Act (FCA) of 1928 ( Congress 1928) following the Great Flood of 1927. The Mississippi River and Tributaries (MR&T) Project that was spawned from the FCA of 1928 has produced a massive, comprehensive system for flood control and channel stabilization that includes levees, channel improvements, and floodways, as well as tributary reservoirs and other basin improvements. Additionally, the development of the river for safe and dependable navigation has generated a substantial engineering effort involving river training structures, meander cutoffs, and dredging. The future morphology of the Mississippi River reflects an integration of all these engineering interventions (and the process-responses they have triggered in the fluvial system), combined with natural drivers of channel change and evolution, including floods and activity, geologic outcrops, climatic variability, climate change, and relative sea-level rise. Understanding how these various factors affect river morphology and its short- and long-term evolution is a complex challenge that must be addressed by the river engineers and scientists responsible for managing this system for flood ecosystem restoration. With the complex requirements in navigation, flood risk reduction, and ecosystem restoration, all with multiple stakeholders, future Mississippi River management will require the most advanced knowledge available. The Mississippi River Geomorphology & Potamology (MRG&P) Program was developed in recognition of this challenge. The MRG&P Program is a joint effort of the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. New Orleans Districts, conducted with the oversight of the Mississippi Valley Division (MVD) and benefiting from technical contributions from the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). The statement of need described herein is just one of many components of the MRG&P Program. Brief Description of Anticipated Work: Objective 1: Refine and develop consensus on sediment transport and loads in the Lower Mississippi River. Over the past decade, great strides have been made in understanding the sediment transport capability of the Lower Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers (LMAR). Several different methods of analyses have been developed using somewhat different data sets. Mize, et al. (2018) recently published a paper using a method called Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge and Season (WRTDS) which suggests that the amount of suspended sediment moving through the LMAR has declined in recent decades. However, other reports show no trend (Little and Biedenharn, 2014) or a slightly increasing trend since 1993 (Horowitz, 2010). There is a vital need to articulate the uncertainty and differences within the sediment data and analysis methods for future research efforts. This effort will involve an analysis of the available sediment transport data for the LMAR and an investigation of the uncertainty in the data and methods. This work effort could also involve organizing and hosting a well-focused workshop of the leading researchers in this area with the goal to produce a consensus publication. This work effort could also include evaluation of methods which estimate sediment loads based on surrogate information such as discharge or turbidity. Consideration may also be given to better quantification of the hysteresis behaviors exhibited in both sediment concentrations and water surface elevations. Objective 2: Refine a total Sediment Budget for the Lower Mississippi River. A sediment budget was recently completed for the LMR which focused on the measured suspended sediment data.

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  • Colorado
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  • Hawaii
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Source ID324687
PostedFeb 21, 2020

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