Louisiana State University will receive $352,460 in funding from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for a project grant titled "Collaborative Research: Experimental Quantification of Tsunami-Driven Debris Damming on Structures" set to run from August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2026. The funding will support experimental research at Oregon State University's large wave flume facility to better understand how debris accumulation in...
This $303,940 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research among Columbia University, Stony Brook University, and City College of New York to develop a science-based approach for understanding and predicting flood-borne debris damage to coastal structures under extreme wind and wave conditions. The research will employ computational fluid dynamics, computational solid mechanics, and laboratory experiments to quantify...
This $245,616 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research on assessing damage to coastal structures from waterborne debris impacts under extreme wind and wave conditions. Led by the Research Foundation of the City University of New York on behalf of the City College of New York, the three-year award will support the development of innovative experiments, computational methods, and fragility curves to better understand...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $261,123 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Oregon (UO) to conduct a comprehensive study of the Cascadia subduction zone, focusing on seismic and tsunami activity around the year 1700 CE. The key objectives are to: Map high-resolution paleotsunami deposits at two key locations along the Cascadia subduction zone, and Execute thousands of advanced tsunami inundation models to test hypotheses about...
This three-year, $267,089 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Stony Brook University to improve understanding and modeling of flood-borne debris impacts on coastal structures. Using computational fluid dynamics, computational solid mechanics, and laboratory experiments, the researchers will quantify critical mechanics processes involved in water-wind-debris-structure interactions. Specific tasks include innovative...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $274,364 Project Grant to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (UNCW) under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The objective of this 3-year award, commencing on May 1, 2024, is to conduct a comprehensive study of the Cascadia subduction zone, focusing on seismic and tsunami activity around the year 1700 CE. UNCW will carry out high-resolution mapping of paleotsunami deposits at two key locations along the Cascadia subduction zone...
This $599,262 National Science Foundation award under the Engineering (47.041) program will fund research at Princeton University from June 2023 to May 2026 to advance knowledge in water-shell structure interaction and enable innovative coastal resilience approaches. The research aims to discover efficient hydrodynamic thin-shell structural forms through integrative modeling, experiments, and machine learning. Specific objectives are to determine forms suited for coastal structures like seawalls...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $355,358 to San Diego State University Research Foundation to develop a fully-coupled model of dynamic rupture, wedge plasticity, and tsunami for great earthquakes in the Japan Trench. Specifically, the awardee will (1) develop a dynamic rupture model of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that can explain key observations, (2) simulate prior Sanriku...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $274,573 Project Grant to the University of Alabama Office for Sponsored Programs Division under CFDA Program #47.041 Engineering. The award, which runs from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2028, will fund research to develop a resilience assessment framework that tracks the accumulated costs of nuisance floods as an indicator of sea-level rise. The project aims to use this information to...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program, CFDA 47.050, totaling $227,245, aims to advance knowledge of tsunami hazards along the Cascadia subduction zone in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The award to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, will fund high-resolution mapping of paleotsunami deposits and advanced tsunami inundation modeling over a 3-year period from May 1, 2024 to April 30, 2027. This...