This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award, totaling $181,696.00, will fund a survey experiment to investigate public perceptions and support for wildfire risk reduction investments. The project aims to provide insights into how recent wildfire exposure and planned forest management activities impact people's preferences for allocating resources between wildfire prevention and suppression efforts, as well as their...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $625,000 from September 15, 2023 to August 31, 2026 to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to strengthen emergency management of critical infrastructure systems, with a focus on the disproportionate impacts of wildfires on socially vulnerable communities.
The project aims to develop a human-centered, equity-focused,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $400,000 in funding from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The award supports research examining the impacts of natural disasters on community resilience, focusing on how disasters disrupt human mobility patterns, residents' requests for government assistance, and the role of social media in facilitating volunteer support. The project aims to...
Oregon State University was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct collaborative research from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The research aims to improve community wildfire resilience by integrating behavioral science with evacuation modeling. Specifically, the university will study household responses to wildfire risk across four wildland-urban interface...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $100,000 supports research at Purdue University from September 2022 to August 2025 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to strengthen community resilience to natural hazards like earthquakes by incorporating stakeholder priorities into risk mitigation efforts.
Specifically, the university will conduct social and physical experiments to better understand vulnerability of pre-1970s concrete buildings and evaluate...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $339,176 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Colorado Boulder on August 15, 2022 for work completing July 31, 2025. The grant supports research examining response and resilience to compound extreme climate events within pastoral systems, with a focus on droughts, floods, and the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts. The University of Colorado will lead interdisciplinary work analyzing how...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $399,521 provides funding for the University of Colorado Boulder to deliver engineering research and education services under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024. Specifically, the award will support the development of a novel direction in engineering resilient housing that explores how inclusion of women's knowledge, priorities, and perceptions can shape problem solving for individual, community...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $162,477 to investigate long-term human fire management and environmental change in high-elevation social-ecological systems in the Pacific Northwest. The primary objectives are to: conduct archaeological surveys; interpret early Holocene subsistence and burning practices; and evaluate how human-environment interactions have shaped high-elevation...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $197,844 to the University of Arizona to identify knowledge gaps and co-design scientific approaches to evaluate solutions for proactively mitigating hazards and reducing risks associated with post-fire debris flows and floods. The project will focus on three key areas: (1) understanding fire effects on earth surface processes, (2) uncertainty propagation through linked models...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop context-specific scientific simulation models and an advanced visualization platform to mitigate wildfire risks. The award period is from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2023.
Specifically, the University will create an integrated simulation framework capturing the dynamics of wildfire evacuation, including...