Grantee Research Project Results
2014 Progress Report: Center for Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management
EPA Grant Number: R835142Center: Center for Integrated Multi‐scale Nutrient Pollution Solutions
Center Director: Shortle, James S.
Title: Center for Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management
Investigators: Echols, Stuart Patton , Orland, Brian A , Royer, Matthew B , Ready, Richard C , Clark, Shirley E , Gray, Barbara L , Shortle, James S. , Duffy, Christopher
Current Investigators: Echols, Stuart Patton , Orland, Brian A , Royer, Matthew B , Ready, Richard C , Clark, Shirley E , Gray, Barbara L , Shortle, James S. , Saacke-Blunk, Kristen , Wagener, Thorsten
Institution: Pennsylvania State University
EPA Project Officer: Packard, Benjamin H
Project Period: March 1, 2012 through February 28, 2018
Project Period Covered by this Report: March 20, 2014 through March 19,2015
Project Amount: $2,173,026
RFA: Sustainable Chesapeake: A Collaborative Approach to Urban Stormwater Management (2011) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Congressionally Mandated Center , Sustainable and Healthy Communities , Water
Objective:
The Center will conduct well-integrated, interdisciplinary research to understand and influence how decisions are made at multiple levels to improve planning, design, adoption, and the successful and sustainable implementation of innovative stormwater management systems to protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay. The Center will use a variety of inquiry methods, data types, analysis systems and community engagement to build the body of information that will reframe and reduce institutional barriers for innovations in stormwater management through the adoption and implementation of green infrastructure.
Progress Summary:
- Draft survey on stormwater management has received comments from both inside the team and outside professionals. The revised draft survey has been sent out for review.
- Data on water quality have been analyzed to investigate effect of treatment devices.
Activities During Year Three:
Two of the project goals are (1) the development and implementation of a Web-based survey of technical personnel involved in stormwater management regarding the current state of the practice and the barriers to implementing the modern tools that are available, and (2) statistically analyzing the large number of studies that exist in the International Best Management Practices (BMP) Database for the design parameters that affect a treatment device’s water quality performance. For goal (1), the draft survey has received comments from both inside the team and outside professionals. The revised draft survey has been sent out for review. Web space for conducting the survey has been secured with the intention of initiating the survey in June 2015. For goal (2), data from the International BMP database have been analyzed using correlation analyses and preliminary cluster analysis. A Master’s paper and several conference presentations have been given.
Future Activities:
During the next funding year, the survey (Goal 1) will be completed and administered to professionals (technically oriented) who are working in the Bay basin. The International BMP Database data analysis (Goal 2) will be continued. This preliminary analysis showed that there are limited studies with complete design information included. Therefore, this past year has focused on obtaining design information for those studies in the BMP database where possible plus investigating and incorporating data from other databases (such as hosted by the U.S. EPA and CalTrans) into the upcoming reanalysis.
Journal Articles: 3 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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Leonard L, Duffy CJ. Essential Terrestrial Variable data workflows for distributed water resources modeling. Environmental Modelling & Software 2013;50:85-96. |
R835142 (2013) R835142 (2015) R835142 (Final) |
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Yu X, Bhatt G, Duffy C, Shi Y. Parameterization for distributed watershed modeling using national data and evolutionary algorithm. Computers & Geosciences 2013:58;80-90. |
R835142 (2015) R835142 (Final) |
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Yu X, Duffy C, Zhang Y, Bhatt G, Shi Y. Virtual experiments guide calibration strategies for a real-world watershed application of coupled surface-subsurface modeling. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 2016;21(11):04016043. |
R835142 (2016) |
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Supplemental Keywords:
Watersheds, groundwater, land, global climate, precipitation, effects, effluent, discharge, public policy, community-based, cost-benefit, non-market valuation, preferences, public good, socio-economic, environmental assets, hydrology, engineering, social science, monitoring, measurement methods, Mid-Atlantic;Progress and Final Reports:
Original Abstract Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R835142C001 Decision Making – Cognitive and Institutional Barriers
R835142C002 Green Infrastructure Design and Visualization
R835142C003 Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling for Green Infrastructure
R835142C004 Non-Hydrological Benefits and Citizen Preference
R835142C005 Public Engagement and Outreach
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Project Research Results
- Final Report
- 2016 Progress Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- Original Abstract
3 journal articles for this center