Research Projects

Use the utility below to search through all research projects partially or fully funded by the Bureau of Reclamation's Science and Technolgy Program since 2004. Note that the projects are tied to federal government fiscal years that start on October 1st and end on September 30th of each calendar year. As an example, October 1st of 2010 marks the start of the 2011 fiscal year. Today is part of the 2010 fiscal year.

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Projects Funded During the 2010 Fiscal Year

The following 104 research projects have been funded in whole or in part by the Science and Technology Program in the 2010 fiscal year. Click on a linked project title to view more information about the specified project.

Project Title	ID	Researcher	Initial Fiscal Year
Advanced Optimization Algorithms for Hydropower Dispatch	486	David Harpman	2010
Applying Measurements of Cohesive Soil Erodibility	6226	Tony Wahl	2010
Assessing the Ecological Costs of Streamflow Regulation	6188	Mark Nelson	2010
Assessment of potential effects of operation of Reclamation facilities on Pacific lamprey in major tributaries of the Columbia River basin.	35	Steve Grabowski	2009
Boron Removal from Seawater	5333	Kevin Kelly	2010
Cellulose Acetate (CA) Membrane Study	107	Andrew Murphy	2005
Characterization of Cyanobacterial biomass in a Bureau of Reclamation Reservoir	3837	Chuck Korson	2010
Climate Change: Application of HydroGeoSphere Thermal (Temperature) Modules for Evaluation of the Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources and Fish Ecosystems	3821	George Matanga	2010
Climate Change: Assessing Preference among Surface Water Hydrologic Models for studies involving Climate Change	2404	Levi Brekke	2009
Climate Change: Carbon Sequestration in Reclamation Reservoirs - Viable Operations to Counter GHG	2814	Rodney Wittler	2010
Climate Change: Effects of climate change on riparian vegetation structure, water uptake, and dependent pollinators along mainstem rivers in the Colorado River Basin	310	Mark Nelson	2010
Climate Change: Erosion of Water Supply Predictability under Climate Change?	2726	Levi Brekke	2009
Climate Change: Evaluating water management responses to global climate change using coupled hydrologic and economic models.	507	Jennifer Johnson	2009
Climate Change: Investigation of Climate Change Impact on Reservoir Capacity and Water Supply Reliability	8990	Paula Makar	2010
Climate Change: Methodology to Evaluate the Influence of Joint Changes in Climate and Land Cover on Water Availability	2768	Levi Brekke	2009
Climate Change: Multiple Teleconnection Index Based Prediction of Natural Flow	709	David Raff	2010
Comparative Analysis of Inovative Concentrate Management Systems	3699	Tom Poulson	2008
Continued development of signal processing methods for surrogate bedload measurement on teh Elwha River	9562	Robert Hilldale	2010
Decision Framework for Resource Managers, Permitting Agencies, and Stakeholders to Determine Potential Sediment Impacts and Analyses for Reservoir Sediment Sluicing and Dam Decommissioning	8462	Jennifer Bountry	2008
Demonstration of radio telemetered flow monitoring and canal control technologies	393	Tom Gill	2006
Demonstration Project to Implement Electro-Osmotic Pulse (EOP) Technology to Stop Water Leaks Through Concrete	772	Daryl Little	2010
Developing a framework for quantifying and effectively communicating groundwater model uncertainty.	820	Jennifer Johnson	2009
Developing a new methodology to determine economic consequences along urbanized canals with loss estimation software and utilizing ARRA acquired imagery.	8621	Bill Goettlicher	2010
Developing Adjustable Waterfalls to Evaluate Fish Jumping Performance	7544	Zak Sutphin	2010
Developing operational criteria information for temperature control device installation at Reclamation facilities through the use of real-time integrated entrainment monitoring systems to improve reliability of water and power delivery.	4149	Juddson Sechrist	2007
Developing the Next Generation Chlorine Resistant, High Flux, and High Salt Rejection Polyamide Desalting Membrane to Increase Water Suppy	526	Andrew Murphy	2004
Development and Testing of an Overshot Gate Design that Irrigation Districts can Self-Construct and Maintain	6890	Tom Gill	2008
Development of a Floating PIT tag Antenna Interrogation System	257	Mark McKinstry	2010
Development of a multi-aquifer hydrologic modeling package to support Reclamation water use planning in rural/urban landscapes.	60	Jennifer Johnson	2008
Development of an evaluation scheme to predict performance of ESA fish rehabilitation projects based on linkages between present and projected hydraulics, stream temperature and food web function	9182	Michael Newsom	2010
Development of Design Considerations for Engineered Large Woody Debris (LWD) Structures	8329	Kendra Russell	2009
Development of Improved Evapotranspiration Estimates for Predominant Marsh Plant Communities and Open-Water Evaporation Estimates in the Upper Klamath River Basin	6485	Mark Spears	2008
Development of Performance Criteria for Surface Preparation of Concrete Substrates Prior to Repair and Overlay	1137	Kurt Von Fay	2007
Drought and Flood Magnitude and Frequency with Uncertainty	7325	Jeanne Godaire	2008
Energy/Water Nexus	1197	Mitchell Haws	2010
Enhancement of Hydroturbine Operational Flexibility for Powerplant Cost Optimization	8301	Ted Bechtel	2005
Evaluating the cost effectiveness of data collection techniques and relative improvements in modeling reservoir production	7622	Sharon Parkinson	2009
Evaluation and development of NASA Experimental Advanced Airborne Research LiDAR (EAARL) for accurate representation of high resolution channel bathymetry for hydraulic modeling and aquatic habitat mapping applications.	9251	Sharon Parkinson	2008
Evaluation of Protective Coatings by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) to Predict Coating Service Life	7553	Allen Skaja	2006
Examining the Use of Adaptive Management Workshops to Foster Collaboration	9132	Douglas Clark	2008
Flow Deflectors - Proven Technology	1531	Leslie Hanna	2006
Flow Measurement with a Venturi Flume Under Submerged or Unsubmerged Conditions	495	Tom Gill	2006
Flow Measurement with Canal Radial Gates	1281	Tony Wahl	2004
Foward Osmosis Water Purification	1289	Chuck Moody	2004
Generator and SCADA Controls Modification for Wind Integration	9608	J Agee	2009
GIS-based decision support for wetland drainage salinity management	2846	Charles Johnson	2010
Hydraulic Modeling with abrupt changes in Reynold's no.	9750	Leslie Hanna	2006
Hydroclimatic Index in Drought Forecasting and Climate Scenario Building for the Colorado River Basin	5546	Mitchell Haws	2010
HydroGeoSphere and Groundwater Modeling System - Phase I.	3279	Lorri Peltz-Lewis	2008
Identifying indicators and guides for sustainability of pools in gravel-bed rivers	4362	Sharon Parkinson	2010
Inhibition of Biofilm Formation	3326	Kevin Kelly	2006
Innovative Technique to Establish Swimming Performance Criteria for Fish Impacted by Fish Exclusion and Passage Facilities	6469	Zak Sutphin	2007
Integrated Information Management System (IIMS), Development of Web Interface	3625	Andreas Krause	2010
Investigating a Modern Method for Improving the Management and Protection of Heritage Assets In Threshing Machine Canyon, Kansas Using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) Technology	7686	Thomas Lincoln	2008
Linking Documents and Information Stored in SharePoint Libraries to Geospatial Representations of Reclamation Features	2998	Greg Gault	2010
Living Laboratory for Canal Modernization Technologies	7316	Tom Gill	2007
Long-term testing near Tucson, Arizona of concentrate management using halophyte irrigation; uses slowsand filtration (SSF) and reverse osmosis (RO) treatment to produce the needed concentrate.	6551	Eric Holler	2005
Managing for Algal Toxins in Reclamation's Project Reservoirs	4939	Davine Lieberman	2006
Membrane Pretreatment with Ion Exchange for Organic Matter Removal	536	Steve Dundorf	2010
Modeling Changes in Water Quality Resulting from Sediment Delta Interactions	589	Nick Williams	2009
Monitoring the Effectiveness of Gravel Augmentations Downstream from Dams	295	David Gaeuman	2010
Non-Physical Fish Barrier Evaluation: Can an Inexpensive Barrier Be Effective for Threatened Fish	8740	Mark Bowen	2009
Optimization of Energy Recovery in Brackish Water RO Desalination Systems	1088	Steve Dundorf	2010
Physical Hydraulic Modeling of Canal Breaches	8442	Tony Wahl	2010
Power System Diagnostics	701	Eric Eastment	2004
Power System Stability Enhancement in the Digitally-Controlled Power System	1411	J Agee	2005
Power System Stability Improvement	661	J Agee	2004
Predation on listed fishes at Reclamation facilities and ways to reduce its impact	7432	Cathy Karp	2008
Prediction of bank erosion to improve river restoration strategies and reservoir sediment management	6606	Blair Greimann	2010
Programmable Logic Control of Automated Surface Irrigation Systems for Improved Water Use Efficiency	3877	Tom Gill	2008
Reduced Cost Hydroelectric Maintenance	582	Jim DeHaan	2004
Reducing Risk of Water Conflicts Related to Operational Impacts to Salmon.	2759	John Hannon	2006
Rejuvenating Spawning Beds to Increase Anadromous Fish Production	1049	Juddson Sechrist	2010
Research and Development of a Comprehensive Guide of Tools for Management of Diverging Science in Reclamation Water Allocation Decisions.	7515	Douglas Clark	2008
Saving Water and Insuring Delivery: Flow Prescription and the Discharge to Habitat Relationship for a Listed Anadromous Salmonid	7899	Mark Bowen	2007
Scoping proposal focused on quantifying temperature change to a water body influenced by subsurface return flow	6826	Sharon Parkinson	2010
Scoping proposal linking physical, biological and aqueous geochemical processes to ecosystem responses	9062	Sharon Parkinson	2010
Slowsand Filtration for Reducing Costs of Desalting Surface Waters	361	Chuck Moody	2004
Small, Terrestrial Mammal Communities within Native and Non-native Dominated Riparian Vegetation along the San Pedro and Gila Rivers in Central Arizona	1705	Nichole Olsker	2008
Status, distribution and management of aquatic herpetofauna as related to Reclamation projects within the Middle Rio Grande and Missouri River basins.	7650	Stanton Moore	2007
Strategies for Treating Variable Source Water	9316	Michelle Chapman	2010
Surrogate Sediment Measurement Technologies - Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project	6435	Robert Hilldale	2008
Terrestrial Photogrammetry: Development of Capabilities and Exploring Applications for 3 D Measuring from photographs	5014	Pete Shaffner	2005
The Application of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) Technology to Improve the Management and Protection of Heritage Assets in the American Falls Archaeological District, Idaho	9541	Jennifer Huang	2009
The Real Deal: Actual water use in irrigated landscapes by mining water billing data	215	Fred Liljegren	2010
Three Dimensional Visual Reservoir Sediment Modeling and Animation	6770	John Carlson	2010
Treatment of Produced Water for Beneficial Use in the Western US	3180	Katherine Benko	2007
Underwater Desalination - Reduces O&M Cost Significantly and Addresses Concentrate Disposal Issues	6586	Saied Delagah	2010
USBR Biological Resources Data Management: Developing an Enterprise Approach	1713	Douglas Clark	2008
Using Data on Threatened Steelhead to Effectively Manage Water Operations and Minimize Impacts	1741	John Hannon	2010
Using the Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) system to determine temperature dynamics and groundwater spring influences due to channel relocation and habitat enhancement in a mountain stream.	9654	Toni Turner	2009
Western Water Institutional Solutions: Identification, Development, and Application of Institutional Solutions for Western Water Problems	147	Douglas Clark	2006
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Antifouling Coatings for Invasive Mussel Control	7095	Allen Skaja	2010
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Control of Dreissena BioFouling Using Carbon Dioxide	9530	Kevin Kelly	2010
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Controlling Quagga and Zebra Mussels in Reclamation Facilities with Bacteria (Pseudomonas fluorescens) (PF)	7017	Fred Nibling	2010
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Environmental Effects and Spread of Quagga/Zebra Mussels in Flowing Water Systems in the Western USA.	4442	Mark Nelson	2010
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Evaluation of Ultraviolet (UV) Light Treatment to Minimize Impacts of Larval Settlement in Facilities	2392	Fred Nibling	2010
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Fish Predation on Quagga Mussels	9508	Cathy Karp	2010
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Investigating New Fish Screening Technology and Modification of Existing Infrastructure to Reduce Impacts of Invasive Quagga and Zebra Mussels on Reclamation Facilites	4111	Steve Hiebert	2010
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Molecular Monitoring and Viability of Dreissena Veligers	6911	Kevin Kelly	2010
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Non-Physical Barriers for Fish Protection and Avoiding Mussel Impacts	8531	Mark Bowen	2010
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Pre- and Post-Impacts of Zebra/Quagga Mussels on the Physical, Chemical, and Biological Attributes on Reclamaton Reservoirs	2113	Davine Lieberman	2010
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Scoping to incorporate mussels in flow and water quality models	2320	Merlynn Bender	2010
Zebra & Quagga Mussels: Viability of Dreissenid Veligers through Our Conveyance Systems and Downstream Rivers	4454	Denise Hosler	2010