RII track-1: climate resilience through multidisciplinary big data learning, prediction & building response systems (CLIMBS)

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Award ID
2344533
Recipient
Awarding agency
Obligated
$12,912,881

Award facts

Assistance listing
47.083 Integrative Activities
Completion date 47% complete
Place of performance
Lexington, KY 40526, USA

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Description

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Abstract
The commonwealth of kentucky faces mounting threats from global environmental change and natural hazards, including extreme weather events, floods, droughts, and landslides. This climate resilience through multidisciplinary big data learning, prediction & building response systems (CLIMBS) project aims to advance the fields of climate science, geohazards engineering, and disaster management to facilitate improved sustainability, resilience, and adaptative engineering to climate change. CLIMBS research will target underserved communities in eastern kentucky, an appalachian region that is especially vulnerable to climate change. The research will produce a holistic understanding of climate change processes in kentucky across multiple spatial and temporal scales, determine the influence of climate change on geohazards that threaten the commonwealth, and establish an enhanced tools and technology framework for climate change mitigation and community disaster response. Results of this research will benefit kentucky's key industries of manufacturing, data analytics, energy transition, and engineering, and help train a science and engineering workforce that will allow smaller industries to flourish. CLIMBS will be administered by the university of kentucky in collaboration with seven other institutions: university of louisville, eastern kentucky university, northern kentucky university, western kentucky university, morehead state university, murray state university, and thomas more college. CLIMBS seeks to address major knowledge gaps that surround: (I) climate change processes affecting kentucky; (II) patterns in climate change impacts; (III) controls on severe weather and extreme events; (IV) climate triggers, thresholds, and feedbacks that result in flood and landslide hazards; and (V) climate-smart sustainable design and resilience engineering in the built environment. To address these issues, CLIMBS will acquire the contemporary atmospheric and paleoenvironmental data needed to assess the causes, patterns, and characteristics of regional climate dynamics (to include extreme weather) across space and time, as well as facilitate predictions for the impacts of climate change on kentucky's critical zone and water resources. Researchers will pursue integrative, long-term environmental monitoring experiments to develop the big data and cyberinfrastructure needed to quantify the processes, feedbacks, and threshold conditions that trigger floods and landslides, and establish instrumented watersheds and hillslope monitoring sites. Initial monitoring sites will be deployed in socio-economically vulnerable areas of eastern kentucky, to bridge with project elements designed to improve education and outreach in appalachia. Additionally, CLIMBS will analyze kentucky's built environment and socio-behavioral systems, and use big data, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and computational tools to evaluate vulnerabilities to climate change and improve real-time disaster detection, warning systems, and the response toolkit. Ten new faculty hires are planned in the first three years of the project. The core research program is well integrated with education, workforce development, and diversity plans that span academic, federal, commonwealth, and private sectors. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.- subawards are planned for this award.

Transactions

Action Obligated Date
Amendment $4,006,241
Amendment $4,203,096
Amendment $0
Original award $4,703,544

Subawards

Subrecipient Amount Awarded
Morehead State University The goal of this award will be to carry out the responsibilities described below. Morehead State University Office of Research and Sponsored Programs… $154,312
Eastern Kentucky University • Field sites and sensor networks across the state; on-going project restoration sites. A number of university field research stations across the state •… $42,724
Northern Kentucky University NKU will participate in the Learning Hub subproject within the larger Kentucky Track-1 project focused on climate change and resiliency in Kentucky. Through the… $65,871
Murray State University • Field sites and sensor networks across the state; on-going project restoration sites. A number of university field research stations across the state •… $60,005
Thomas More University Inc. $72,201
University Of Louisville Eastern KY experiences repeated floods due to its topography and unique sociocultural factors related to community organization. The consequences of these… $1,234,826
Western Kentucky University The Grand Teton National Park has experienced significant wildfires over the last century, primarily driven by dry, windy summer conditions. These fires act… $73,000
Western Kentucky University Earthquakes pose a significant but often underestimated geohazard in Western Kentucky, with potential risks to infrastructure, communities, and economic… $87,976
Western Kentucky University Water scarcity and climate variability pose significant threats to agricultural productivity and sustainability, particularly in regions like Western… $49,539
Western Kentucky University Historical climatology is critical to many disciplines, essential for STEM research, community planning and development, cultural understanding, and… $61,088
Western Kentucky University Climate change in Kentucky is poorly understood. Yet to date, no coordinated effort towards understanding climate science and geohazards has been undertaken… $468,102
Murray State University During Year 1 of the project, Murray State University PI, Dr. Haluk Ce􀆟n, will:  purchase a multispectral drone for student training and research, … $42,284
Northern Kentucky University NKU will participate in the Learning Hub subproject within the larger Kentucky Track-1 project focused on climate change and resiliency in Kentucky. Through the… $85,453
Thomas More University Inc. The goal of our proposed program is to increase diversity in the geoscience and engineering disciplines by training undergraduate students who are classified as… $88,003
Eastern Kentucky University $46,250
University Of Louisville Eastern KY experiences repeated floods due to its topography and unique sociocultural factors related to community organization. The consequences of these… -$393,960
Western Kentucky University Climate change in Kentucky is poorly understood. Yet to date, no coordinated effort towards understanding climate science and geohazards has been undertaken… $222,247
Western Kentucky University Climate change in Kentucky is poorly understood. Yet to date, no coordinated effort towards understanding climate science and geohazards has been undertaken… $222,247
University Of Louisville Eastern KY experiences repeated floods due to its topography and unique sociocultural factors related to community organization. The consequences of these… $976,839
Morehead State University The goal of this award will be to carry out the responsibilities described below. Morehead State University Office of Research and Sponsored Programs… $241,161
Murray State University During Year 1 of the project, Murray State University PI, Dr. Haluk Cetin, will: - purchase a multispectral drone for student training and research, -… $30,499
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Who received award 2344533?

2344533 was awarded to The University Of Kentucky Research Foundation by Office of Integrative Activities (National Science Foundation) on July 1, 2024.

How much is award 2344533 worth?

$12,912,881 has been obligated on 2344533.

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