Funding-Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC); October 19, 2011 

 

Agency

 

National Science Foundation

 

Description

 

One of the most urgent challenges facing the world today is ensuring an adequate supply and quality of water in light of both burgeoning human needs and climate variability and change. Despite water's importance to life on Earth, there are major gaps in our basic understanding of water availability, quality and dynamics, and the impact of both a changing and variable climate, and human activity, on the water system. The goal of the Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) solicitation is to understand and predict the interactions between the water system and climate change, land use (including agriculture, managed forest and rangeland systems), the built environment, and ecosystem function and services through place-based research and integrative models. Studies of the water system using models and/or observations at specific sites singly or in combination that allow for spatial and temporal extrapolation to other regions, as well as integration across the different processes in that system are encouraged, especially to the extent that they advance the development of theoretical frameworks and predictive understanding.

 

Announcement Number: nsf11551

 

Closing Date: October 19, 2011

 

Link to Full Announcement

 

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11551/nsf11551.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

 

Contact Information

 

Enriqueta C. Barrera, Program Director, Division of Earth Sciences, telephone: (703) 292-8551, email: ebarrera@nsf.gov