Project Grant 1832068

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $199,638 to The RAND Corporation to explore how residents of the U.S. Gulf Coast make decisions about evacuating or migrating in response to hurricanes. The research team will conduct telephone and web surveys with residents of Gulf Coast counties and parishes in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana who have previously participated in the Survey of Trauma,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to support research focused on developing and testing fast-flood-modeling technologies. The $300,000 award, effective from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027, aims to advance flood simulation technologies that could transform the design of flood-safe infrastructure systems. The research project, led by the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS),...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), provides $701,663 to Florida State University to conduct collaborative research on the intensity and size relationship of tropical cyclones. The research aims to better understand this relationship through exploring how the inward radial loss rate of absolute angular momentum and effective absolute angular momentum values depend on environmental...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), supports a study on the role of land surface conditions in the maintenance of Hurricane Helene after it made landfall in Florida in September 2024. The $154,118 award, granted on November 15, 2024, will be used by the University of Texas at Austin to investigate precipitation, land-atmosphere feedbacks, and the "brown ocean effect" during the hurricane. The research team will...

This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is funding a rapid research project at Montclair State University to evaluate the resilience of small community water systems (CWS) to Hurricanes Helene and Milton in southwest Florida. The project aims to advance understanding of hurricane resilience behaviors of these small CWS, which typically lack the capacity to adapt to natural hazards due to limited resources. The research...

This Project Grant award of $431,757.00 from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.205 - Highway Planning and Construction) will provide funding for emergency road repair work in Volusia County, Florida following Hurricane Ian. The project, titled "HURRICANE IAN VOLUSIA COUNTY DISASTER RECOVERY; EMERGENCY ROAD REPAIR; A1A/SAN JOSE/SUNNY BCH WASHOUT - IN79010E", is intended to address damage caused by the hurricane, including road washouts along A1A, San Jose, and Sunny Beach. The...

This federal Project Grant award of $418,401 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a convergent framework for next-generation wildfire evacuation simulation models. The project will create realistic artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by large language models, reinforcement learning, and multi-modal datasets to improve the behavioral realism, prediction accuracy, and decision-support capabilities of wildfire evacuation simulation...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $349,209 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project grant to the University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research. The 5-year project, titled "An Integrated Trustworthy AI Research and Education Framework for Modeling Human Behavior in Climate Disasters", aims to develop advanced artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies to enhance the prediction and understanding of human behaviors before, during, and after weather and...

This $499,802 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), aims to improve coastal community resilience to hurricane wind-related hazards and potential compounding hazards. The project will leverage Doppler radar wind retrievals and near-surface wind measurements to better understand the low-level wind profiles of landfalling hurricanes. Researchers will use advanced simulation techniques and artificial intelligence to predict...

This $150,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports research at Texas A&M University examining decision-making around evolving coastal flood risks. The grantee will develop an integrated framework combining risk modeling, economic sorting models, and social behavior models to understand how residential location choices are impacted by changing flood conditions and flood control infrastructure investments. This will quantify changes in...