Grantee Research Project Results
2016 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 , Montana Tech of the University of Montana
Current 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 19, 2016 through February 8,2017
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:
Interviews were conducted to gather perceptions on watershed benefits. Interviewees fell into the following stakeholder categories: local government supervisors and planning staff, state regulators, conservation commissions, developers, citizen advocacy groups (for and against regulation), consulting engineers who design stormwater management systems, homeowners' associations and technical advisory groups. A few interviews were repeated with key regulatory officials.
PIs developed visual/verbal "dashboards" that communicate to local decision makers (municipal governments and school boards) the information necessary to portray the implications of stormwater management plans for their facilities via data-coupled 3-D visualization.
PIs calibrated the Conestoga watershed model in south-central PA using PIHM (The Penn State Integrated Hydrologic Model) and implementation of the landuse change model CALUC (Cellular Automata Land Use Change). The watershed includes agricultural, forest, suburban, urban and urbanizing landuse-land cover types.
Future Activities:
In the coming year, using Past, Present and Future Climate conditions, PIs will explore the synergistic and antagonistic effects of land use change and Climate Change on watershed hydrology and green infrastructure in the Conestoga.
PIs will test the hydrological performance of hypothetical Green Infrastructure practices using a probabilistic framework presently under development. A matrix of potential practices and the favorable/unfavorable hydrologic, soil, geologic and topographic conditions currently is being developed.
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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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
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.
Project Research Results
- Final Report
- 2015 Progress Report
- 2014 Progress Report
- 2013 Progress Report
- 2012 Progress Report
- Original Abstract
3 journal articles for this center