Opportunity ID: 294597

General Information

Document Type: Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number: BOR-UC-17-N009
Funding Opportunity Title: CESU Study Agriculture Consumptive Use
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Opportunity Category Explanation:
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Category of Funding Activity: Natural Resources
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards: 1
Assistance Listings: 15.541 — Colorado River Basin Act of 1968
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No
Version: Synopsis 1
Posted Date: Jun 12, 2017
Last Updated Date:
Original Closing Date for Applications: Jun 26, 2017
Current Closing Date for Applications: Jun 26, 2017
Archive Date: Jul 26, 2017
Estimated Total Program Funding: $71,921
Award Ceiling: $71,921
Award Floor: $1

Eligibility

Eligible Applicants: State governments
Additional Information on Eligibility:

Additional Information

Agency Name: Bureau of Reclamation
Description: The scope of work is to assess consumptive water use (i.e. evapotranspiration; ET) from irrigated agricultural lands in the Upper Colorado River Basin. The following tasks have been identified by Reclamation staff and the Principal Investigator as priority tasks needed for crop ET modeling and remote sensing efforts in the Upper Colorado River Basin (Upper Basin):

1) Prepare ET demands model setup, calibration, and post processing steps for all subareas in the Upper Basin. For example: processing crop type data and developing crop masks; download and process soil data masked to the crop lands; calibration of basil crop coefficient (Kcb) curves to properly reflect historical planting; effective full cover, and harvest dates, and visualization of output for recognizing “good” or “bad” model runs or calibrations; and comparing model results (growing season start and end dates, ET rates, effective precipitation estimates, etc.) to previous studies.
2) Study ET demands with required input climate data, reference ET (ETo) calculations, and bias correction. Gridded climate data extraction for areas of interest, and bias correction to agricultural station data is needed to ensure that historical climate and ETo estimates are representative of agricultural conditions.
3) Study quality assurance and quality control from agricultural weather station data and processes agricultural station data to compute ETo. Compare gridded climate and ETo estimates to agricultural station based ETo to develop bias correction factors needed in task 2.
4) Develop rules by which crop classes such as ‘pasture-high’ and ‘pasture-low’ can be assigned to the grassland class which composes about 70% of the ag land in the UC Basin.
5) Evaluate the possibility of developing or evaluating existing maps of potentially irrigated lands.
6) Recommend a method for estimating shortages, winter time crop ET, and effective precipitation.
7) Compare potential crop ET estimates (e.g. from Penman Monteith ET Demands and Blaney-Criddle) to eddy covariance estimates of crop ET.
8) Recommending unified remote sensing of actual crop ET, and potential crop ET consumptive use methods.
9) Develop draft and final reports of findings and recommendations.
10) Participate in stakeholder meetings and workshops.

Link to Additional Information:
Grantor Contact Information: If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:

Deborah Chorlton

Grants Officer

Phone 801-524-3734
Email:dchorlton@usbr.gov

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Packages

Agency Contact Information: Deborah Chorlton
Grants Officer
Phone 801-524-3734
Email: dchorlton@usbr.gov
Who Can Apply: Organization Applicants

Assistance Listing Number Competition ID Competition Title Opportunity Package ID Opening Date Closing Date Actions
15.541 PKG00233145 Jun 12, 2017 Jun 26, 2017 View

Package 1

Mandatory forms

294597 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf

294597 SF424A-1.0.pdf

294597 SF424B-1.1.pdf

Optional forms

294597 SFLLL_1_2-1.2.pdf

294597 AttachmentForm_1_2-1.2.pdf

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