Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast CESU

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The US Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, is offering a funding opportunity to address the role of land use infrastructure, and river modification on flood frequency using the Budyko framework. The goal is to quantify how human modifications of the land surface, including urbanization, transportation networks, and river regulation, such as dams, diversions, and levees, influence the risk of flood events. Specific objectives include development of a database of flow and floods from paired sets of stream gages in different types of human-modified and unmodified areas, and use it to evaluate the effects of different modifications on flood frequency. The research is a necessary and very applied extension of ongoing research using existing Budyko frameworks/relationships to quantify how human modification of the land surface influences the frequency and severity of flood events.

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