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Find similar grantsCWCB Water Research Seed Grants is sponsored by Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB). The CWCB Seed Research Program supports the development of water resources research, outreach, and education programs that aid the CWCB in fulfilling its mission.
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Colorado Water Center CSU grant program Funding water research, extension, and education projects through our land-grant mission. This grant program invests in transdisciplinary collaborations and partnerships that ultimately lead to a more holistic understanding of water resource issues, and to integrate translation of this understanding into the water resource profession, as well as educate the future water workforce.
Colorado Water Center CSU Grant Program CWCB water research seed grants The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) Seed Research Program was established in 2012 to support the development of water resources research, outreach, and education programs that aid the CWCB in fulfilling its mission.
The Seed Research program is open to Faculty, Extension personnel, and Researchers at any institution of higher education in Colorado that has the capacity to support research, information dissemination, and graduate training programs that can address Colorado’s most pressing water resource challenges.
FY 2027 CWCB Water Research Seed Grant Request for Proposals (submission window has closed) CWCB Water Research Seed Grants FY27 Awardees Proposal Title Amount Requested Applicant Characterizing Water Use Intensity of Data Centers and Assessing Pathways for Water Self-Sufficiency $50,000 Mazdak Arabi, CSU Streamflow changes after fire: connections to snow and vegetation recovery $49,744 Stephanie Kampf, CSU Evaluation of stream recovery following wildfire $50,000 Dan Preston, CSU Follow the Energy: Electricity, Heat, and Water Flows through Data Centers in Colorado $50,000 David C.
Mays, CU Denver USGS graduate student research grants The USGS 104b program, funded by US Geological Survey/National Institutes for Water Resources (USGS/NIWR), encourages and supports graduate student research in disciplines relevant to water resources issues and assists Colorado institutions of higher education in developing student research expertise and capabilities.
It is intended to help students initiate research projects or to supplement existing student projects in water resources research.
2026 USGS 104b graduate student research RFP (submission window has closed) USGS 104b Graduate Student Research Grants FY27 Awardees Proposal Title Amount Requested Grad Student Advisor High Water Age and Booster Impacts on The Formation of Unregulated Disinfection Byproduct of Under-resourced Rural Communities in Colorado $10,000 Abdulrahman Aljadani, CU Boulder Sheldon Masters, CU Boulder Emerging snow drought and implications for future water availability in the Upper Colorado River Basin $10,000 Sydney Carr, CU Boulder Keith Musselman, CU Boulder Quantifying the Effects of Forest Management on Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) in Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta) Forests $10,000 Jocelyn Cramer, CSU Steven Fassnacht, CSU Water Rights, Water Rates: How Seniority Under Colorado’s Prior Appropriation Doctrine Shapes Municipal Water Pricing and Drought Response $10,000 Catherine Grant, CSU Jordan Suter, CSU Quantifying Groundwater Response to Low-tech process-based restoration (LTPBR) in a Colorado Headwater Stream Using Coupled Hydrodynamic–Groundwater Modeling Informed by Geophysical Characterization $9,734 Rafin Hasan, CSU Antonio Alves Meira Neto, CSU Mechanistic Insights into Pipe Scale Changes During Corrosion Control Transitions Using Novel Material Characterization $10,000 Quinn Hiatt, CU Boulder Sheldon Masters, CU Boulder Water quality and quantity responses to lawn irrigation and low-impact development in a semi-arid urban watershed $10,000 Marguerite Lorenzo, CU Boulder Aditi Bhaskar, CU Boulder Chlorine Dioxide Preoxidation and Unregulated Disinfection Byproduct Formation: Implications for Drinking Water Risk in Colorado $10,000 Miles Salzer, CU Boulder Sheldon Masters, CU Boulder Constraining the recharge elevations of groundwater in the Denver Basin Aquifer System $9,999 Adam Walsh, CSU Jeremy Rugenstein, CSU
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Applications for CWCB Water Research Seed Grants are due January 1, 2027. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
CWCB Water Research Seed Grants is funded by Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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