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...
This $499,942 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research investigating the impacts of climate change on coastal communities in an urban environment. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award (August 2024 - July 2027) include: Analysis of the alignment between water infrastructure, policies, and practices with emerging climate and environmental challenges such as...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $217,772 Project Grant through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Alabama, effective July 1, 2024. This 3-year research project aims to investigate how individuals process information and make decisions when faced with prospects characterized by multiple layers of risk and/or ambiguity, such as those related to climate change or public health emergencies. The project will outline a series of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $114,675 to the University of North Texas to conduct a 3-year longitudinal study on the temporal dynamics of household flood adjustment behaviors. The research team will employ a survey-based experimental intervention to understand the mechanisms that lead individuals to adopt flood hazard adjustment behaviors over time. The study aims to generate...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded Rice University a $518,668 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year grant, awarded September 15, 2021 and concluding August 31, 2024, will support collaborative research on urban flooding and residential adaptation in Houston, Texas. The funding will enable Rice University researchers to partner with local organizations and residents to study how...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $179,999 will support computational modeling to characterize uncertainty in future coastal risk through August 2024. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program, the award to Rochester Institute of Technology aims to examine how coastal areas can mitigate damages from sea-level change and coastal flooding. The grantee will develop software and conduct computer model experiments to assess uncertainty in geophysical and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research focused on understanding population mobility patterns due to low-attention flooding events. The $409,613 award to the Regents of the University of Michigan will leverage multiple data sources, including mobile phone data and surveys/interviews, to develop a holistic understanding of how these understudied, repeated flood events contribute to people's decisions to evacuate,...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research on climate adaptation of housing infrastructure in coastal communities. The $171,674 award to The Johns Hopkins University will develop a novel mathematical framework to analyze interactions between human behavior, built environments, and natural hazards in order to identify pathways for communities to become more resilient to climate change. The project aims...
The University of Notre Dame received a $291,775 two-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund a study from September 2021 through August 2023 to analyze mitigation decisions regarding coastal residential infrastructure in the United States. As part of the grant, researchers at the University of Notre Dame's Office of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $299,271 to Lehigh University to develop a novel computer modeling approach that helps understand and manage flood risk. The project, titled "An Inclusive Human-Centered Risk Management Modeling Framework for Flood Resilience," is a joint effort between US and Japanese researchers. Key objectives include establishing a comprehensive US-Japan...