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----- Message from Geoffrey Habron <habrong@MSU.EDU> on Tue, 04 Mar
2008 10:00:34 -0500 -----

To:	AOEWATERQUAL@LIST.MSU.EDU
Subject:	Water AOE: EPA Consequences of Global Change for Water Quality

Greetings! Here is a new grant announcement
from EPA. :)
 
Consequences of Global Change for
Water Quality
Solicitation Closing Date: May
08, 2008, 4:00 pm
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2008/2008_star_gcwq.html

 
The Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), National Center for Environmental
Research (NCER), in cooperation with the EPA Global Change Research Program,
announces a competition for projects supporting research into the consequences
of climate change for U.S. water quality to support human and aquatic life
uses. EPA is interested in the hydrologic and other watershed processes
that affect water resources that may be altered by a changing climate.
A better national scale understanding of the range of potential consequences
of climate change will be useful both for fully accounting for the impacts
of climate change and for developing regional adaptive strategies to reduce
the risk of harmful impacts. The goal of this solicitation is to assemble
modeling systems capable of capturing important linkages between regional
climate drivers and terrestrial hydrologic systems and to apply these modeling
systems to improve the overall understanding of the sensitivity of key
water quality or aquatic ecosystem management targets to the types of climate
changes anticipated over the next several decades.

D. Specific Research Areas of Interest/Expected Outputs and Outcomes

• Applications for this solicitation must address one or more of the following research topics within the context of climate change in the next several decades:
• What are the potential impacts of climate change on streamflow regimes and groundwater recharge rates in different regions of the country, and how will these changes affect water quality and/or aquatic ecosystems?
• How will changes in the extremes of the hydrologic cycle impact water quality?
• What are the regional differences in vulnerability of water quantity, water quality, and aquatic ecosystems to climate change (e.g. streams, lakes, rivers, estuaries, wetlands, coastal waters)?
• How will wetland extent and function change as a result of climate change, including effects on sea level?
• How will climate change influence the availability of suitable aquatic habitat for vulnerable species?
• How can process-level models be improved to better represent the sensitivity of key water quality or aquatic ecosystem management targets to climate change (e.g., processes that connect terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems)?

Endpoints
of interest include: a) critical hydrologic variables such as evapotranspiration,
soil moisture, snow cover, stream flow, groundwater flow, water table depth,
and sea level; b) water quality management targets like water temperature,
dissolved oxygen, nutrients (e.g. Nitrogen and Phosphorus), and sediment;
and c) aquatic ecosystem endpoints such as habitat and biodiversity.

 
 
Geoffrey Habron, Ph.D.
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Department of Sociology
Michigan State University
13 Natural Resources
East Lansing, MI 48824-1222
517-432-8086
habrong@msu.edu