미국 지질연구소(USGS)는 국가지하수관측망(NGWMN, National Ground-Water Monitoring Network)에 참여를 지원하는 협력협정에 최대 400만 달러의 기금을 지원할 예정이라고 밝혔다.

 

USGS는 관측망을 개발·관리하기 위해 연방 물정보 자문위원회(ACWI)의 지하수 분과위원회(SOGW)를 운영하고 있다. 관측망은 협력적인 지하수 데이터 수집·관리·보고 시스템으로 고안되었으며, 기존에 구축한 연방, 주, 마을, 지방 지하수 모니터링 네트워크에서 수집된 데이터를 기반으로 운영된다.

 

 

 

The U.S. Geological Survey will award up to $4 million in cooperative agreements to support participation in the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network (NGWMN).

 

The USGS is working with the Federal Advisory Committee on Water Information’s (ACWI) Subcommittee on Ground Water (SOGW) to develop and administer the NGWMN.  The NGWMN is designed as a cooperative groundwater data collection, management, and reporting system that will be based on data from selected wells in existing Federal, State, Tribal, and local groundwater monitoring networks. The Network is envisioned as a long-term collaborative partnership among Federal and non-Federal data providers that will help address present and future groundwater management questions facing the nation.

 

Cooperative agreements will provide support for both new and existing data providers in the NGWMN. The USGS will fund new data providers to select and classify sites within existing monitoring programs, to set up web services that will link the data to the NGWMN Portal, and to produce a report describing this process. Existing data providers will receive funds to maintain web services and keep site information current. Data providers may also receive funding to collect data to improve site information, to maintain wells, and to drill new or replacement Network wells. Information about the cooperative agreements is available on the NGWMN Cooperative Agreements page.

 

Interested agencies may apply online at GRANTS.GOV under funding opportunity number G16AS00043. Applications will be accepted from March 30, 2016 through May 31, 2016.

 

Two Webinars are scheduled to review the application package and answer any question about the opportunity. These are scheduled for April 13th at 1 pm EDT and May 3rd at 2 pm EDT. Registration for the webinars is required.

 

[출처 = Water World / 2016년 4월 11일]