Opportunity Information: Apply for BOR DO 17 N008
The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation is offering a discretionary cooperative agreement opportunity titled "Improved Estimation of Reservoir Evaporation" (Funding Opportunity Number: BOR DO 17 N008; CFDA: 15.560). The project is centered on strengthening how reservoir evaporation is measured and predicted, using on-water meteorological monitoring and improved analytical methods. The effort supports water resources management by reducing uncertainty around evaporation losses, which can be a major and often difficult-to-quantify component of reservoir operations, water supply accounting, and long-term planning.
Under this award, the recipient is expected to continue collecting data from an existing buoy-based weather station on Lahontan Reservoir. In addition to maintaining and operating that station, the recipient will redeploy a buoy weather station that was obtained under a previous cooperative agreement to a new site, either Stampede Reservoir or Lake Tahoe. In practical terms, this means keeping a continuous stream of high-quality meteorological and reservoir condition observations at Lahontan while extending or shifting monitoring capacity to another important water body in the region, broadening the overall dataset and improving the ability to compare conditions across reservoirs.
A major focus of the work is methodological improvement. The recipient will keep using and refining existing evaporation-estimation tools and will also develop new approaches to better predict evaporation. This includes leveraging the established reservoir meteorological network made up of weather station buoys. These buoys are intended to measure the full set of weather variables needed for robust evaporation calculations, along with reservoir thermal properties that influence both evaporation and heat storage. The explicit emphasis on thermal properties and heat storage indicates that the project is not limited to surface weather observations; it also aims to account for how heat is absorbed and retained in the water body over time, which can materially affect evaporation rates and the timing of evaporative losses.
The opportunity anticipates a single award with an award ceiling of $39,573. It was posted on December 22, 2016, with an original closing date of January 5, 2017. Eligibility is listed as "Others," with additional clarification to be provided in the full eligibility text of the announcement. Overall, the grant supports continued field data collection, strategic redeployment of monitoring equipment, and technical advancement of evaporation prediction methods, using buoy-based meteorological stations to generate the comprehensive observations needed for accurate evaporation and heat-storage estimation.Apply for BOR DO 17 N008
- The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Improved Estimation of Reservoir Evaporation" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.560.
- This funding opportunity was created on Dec 22, 2016.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jan 05, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $39,573.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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