Project Grant 01D01920

This Cooperative Agreement award of $2,000,000.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731), supports the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network, Inc. (operating as the Kentucky Environmental Foundation) in delivering products and services focused on climate mitigation, forest resilience, and community engagement in the Appalachian region. The 5-year project aims to provide technical...

This $150,939 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) aims to advance research capacity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and scientific literacy to mitigate the impacts of climate change-driven flash flooding in vulnerable rural communities across the Appalachian region. The 4-year project will integrate engineering, environmental science, and social science to: 1) improve...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $857,280 to the University of Louisville to conduct collaborative research on mitigating the impacts of climate change and flash flooding in the Appalachian region. The key goals of the project are to: Advance the hydrologic sciences to understand controls of flash floods in disturbed and forested stream systems Facilitate community-engaged research to increase...

This $178,054 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program, aims to understand, predict, and prepare for flash flooding impacts in vulnerable Appalachian communities under climate change. The project brings together an interdisciplinary team from the University of Louisville, West Virginia University, University of Kentucky, Marshall University, and Eastern Kentucky University to advance hydrologic research,...

This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $580,797, was granted by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the University of Kentucky Research Foundation. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RII FEC: THE FLOODING IN APPALACHIAN STREAMS AND HEADWATERS INITIATIVE: MITIGATING IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND FLASH FLOODING IN APPALACHIA", will integrate research across civil engineering, environmental...

This $4,051,259 Cooperative Agreement award was granted by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) to the Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation (KSTC), a non-profit organization based in Lexington, Kentucky. The project, titled "E-CORE RII: Technology for Innovative Visualization, Aggregation & Training in Environmental Preparedness and Resilience for Kentucky," aims to expedite solutions to climate resilience challenges in...

This $273,735 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to advance the sustainability of water distribution systems and the workforce required to operate them in Kentucky, particularly the Appalachian region. The key objectives are to: (1) integrate sustainability assessments into water distribution system planning and management by developing life cycle environmental and economic models and leveraging existing datasets...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) Cooperative Agreement award of $231,304, granted to the West Virginia University Research Corporation, will support a collaborative research initiative focused on mitigating the impacts of climate change and flash flooding in the Appalachian region. The key products and services to be delivered through this 4-year project include: Advancing hydrologic science to better understand the controls of flash floods in disturbed...

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) awarded a $499,809 Project Grant under the Appalachian Area Development program (CFDA 23.002) to the University of Tennessee for a community infrastructure project. The award aims to support workforce training, community infrastructure improvements, and regional economic development initiatives in the Appalachian region. The project includes two sub-awards: one to the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network, Inc. (dba Kentucky Environmental Foundation) to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $192,359.55 was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Emergency Watershed Protection Program (CFDA 10.923). The purpose of the award is to fund debris removal, bank stabilization, and other emergency recovery measures in Letcher County, Kentucky following a flood event in April 2024. The award recipient, Letcher County Fiscal Court, will implement these critical watershed...