The Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council is pleased to announce the results of the FY09 Joint Solicitation for Groundwater Research and Monitoring. Last fall, 15 proposals were submitted to the competition with a total request for over $860,000. After a rigorous peer review, the list of successful projects is now available. Proposals for the next cycle will be due in November 2008 for projects starting as early as July 1st, 2009. Although the official RFP may not be released until October 2008, the proposal format and research priorities will likely be similar. Please join our mailing list to receive more information as it becomes available.  For your reference, you may also download last year’s RFP as an example of the competition requirements.

One of 54 Water Resources Research Institutes nationwide (including Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands), the University of Wisconsin-Water Resources Institute has promoted research, training, and information dissemination to effectively confront water resources problems, since its inception in 1964. The State Water Resources Research Institute Program is authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 and is administered by the U.S. Geological Survey. The UW-WRI is housed in the Aquatic Sciences Center of the Graduate School at UW-Madison.