Watershed Management and Restoration
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, watershed management is the continuous process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects with partners using a multi-disciplinary and adaptive approach to sustain and enhance natural watersheds. Resources available in this sub-theme include watershed management technical reports, tools to assess flows in ecosystems, and other resources that support sustainable watershed management and restoration.
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Watershed Management and Restoration Resources
Managing Watersheds to Improve Land and Water
The National Institutes for Water Resources
At first glance, the term watershed management appears to be self-explanatory, its meaning apparent in its very wording. Watershed management is the managing of a watershed. At best, however, this definition is merely the starting point and might appropriately be compared to the initial upland flow...Read more
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United States, North AmericaManaging the Flow to Better Use, Preserve Arizona's Rivers
The National Institutes for Water Resources
River management plans are varied and complex, strategically developed for the circumstances of individual rivers. A river management plan may involve a single agency regulating a river or a more comprehensive effort, with varied organizations, from grassroots to federal, working together to ensure...Read more
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United States, North AmericaWeather Modification: a Water Resource Strategy to Be Researched, Tested Before Tried
The National Institutes for Water Resources
Weather modification has a rather unique status among water resource issues. Along with attracting attention as a potential water supply source, weather modification is of interest because of its varied and changing status in the scientific and public policy communities; it has an aura of...Read more
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United States, North AmericaHydrometeorological Automated Data System (HADS)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This website provides real-time data acquisition and data distribution system and site meta-data to U.S. National Weather Service. There are more than 15,000 data points which give weather data observations.Read more
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United States, North AmericaUniversity of Michigan Water Center-Supported Large Research Grants
Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan
The Water Center has awarded over $4.6 million in large grants to bolster freshwater research and restoration and protection efforts throughout the Great Lakes region and beyond. This site includes factsheets for all Water Center large grants.Read more
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United StatesUniversity of Michigan Water Center-Supported Leveraging Resource Grants
Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan
The Water Center has awarded over $1 million in grants to support projects that leverage ongoing freshwater research and restoration and protection efforts in order to take them a step further. This site includes factsheets for all Water Center leveraging grants.Read more
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United StatesSustainability Experts Database
Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan
This database enables users to find and learn more about U-M sustainability faculty and researchers based on key words.Read more
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United StatesSoil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) Modeling Workshop
Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan
The University of Michigan Water Center, together with the Western Lake Erie Basin Partnership, the International Joint Commission, and LimnoTech, hosted a Great Lakes SWAT Modeling Workshop on March 18-19, 2014. The event featured presentations from several modeling groups, as well as break out...Read more
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United StatesEnvironmental Restoration in Urban Arizona: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Approach Final Report
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June 1, 2005National Water Research Institute, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The focus of this paper is on Ecosystem Restoration Projects undertaken in Arizona by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), under their Civil Works Mission, in conjunction with local governments in the state. It reports on projects in Pima and Maricopa Counties, the two most populated...Read more
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United StatesSedimentation and River Hydraulics: Two-Dimensional Model (SRH-2D)
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August 1, 2012U.S. Department of the Interior | Bureau of Reclamation
Sedimentation and River Hydraulics – Two-Dimensional model, is a two-dimensional (2D) hydraulic, sediment, temperature, and vegetation model for river systems.Read more
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