Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grants

Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.
Amount: Up to US $2,000
Last Updated: April 15, 2025

Summary

The Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grants (IDTG) offered by CUAHSI aim to enhance the capabilities of students and early career faculty in hydrologic sciences. By providing funding up to $2,000, the program facilitates visits to experts or institutions specializing in hydrologic instruments. This initiative particularly encourages applications linked to Critical Zone Science, aiming to improve learning opportunities and practical experience in advanced water-related instrumentation, thereby fostering collaboration and scientific advancement.

Overview

Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Who We Are CUAHSI facilitates the interdisciplinary advancement of water science by making it easier for the water science community to do their work. We do this by providing education and outreach programs, like workshops and grants, as well as specialized software and services to share and access data, collaborate online, and compute in the cloud. CUAHSI’s community consists of students, educators, volunteer scientists, outreach coordinators, environmental and watershed organizations, and corporate entities. All who are involved in water science, water-resources management, or water-resources protection and enhancement are part of the CUAHSI community. Mission To empower the water community and advance science through collaboration, infrastructure, and education. Vision A thriving water community – enabled by shared resources – developing an integrated understanding of water, earth, ecosystems, and society to meet human and environmental needs. Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grants This year's IDTG program will have a focus on Critical Zone Science. We are seeking applications for work that will align with Critical Zone Science. CUAHSI offers up to $2,000 to help cover travel expenses for students or scientists at U.S. universities and colleges to visit colleagues with specific instrumentation expertise. The objective of the travel should be to efficiently and economically learn how to build, install, operate, maintain, and process data from one or more hydrologic instruments. IDTG’s can: enable university students or scientists to visit other institutions and/or research sites, orenable a reverse site visit to bring an expert to an institution. These grants are intended to minimize the financial risk for awardees while enabling them to learn about advanced water-related instrumentation from an expert. Grantees are expected to take a holistic approach. As needed, they should learn about field deployment, instrument networking, data collection methods, data interpretation approaches, and learn about operating the instrumentation. We ask that awardees use CUAHSI's Water Data Services to publish any datasets that result from an IDTG. When preparing your IDTG proposal, remember that the overarching intent of this grant is to build capacity related to specific instrumentation by giving you access to learning opportunities that would otherwise be challenging to obtain. In the proposal narrative, please be specific and direct about the nature of the instrumentation, the associated challenges to learning about its operation and how it will build capacity beyond the IDTG awardee.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Students at all levels, postdocs and faculty members enrolled in or currently employed by a U.S. university are eligible to receive an Instrumentation Discovery Travel Grant. All applications need to have a clear link to Critical Zone Science.Proposals that include modeling activities associated with processing of instrument data will be considered.Travel may be to any location, foreign or domestic.

Ineligibility

This grant opportunity is not appropriate for funding attendance of a class or workshop.Site visits requested purely to learn or evaluate modeling software are outside the scope of this program.Grant funds may not be used to cover indirect costs (such as health insurance, or Facilities & Administration).