This $546,668 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Purdue University to study the evolution of collective disaster memory and its impact on community resilience to flooding hazards. Over five years, the grantee will conduct case studies in Portland, Oregon and Houston, Texas to examine historical flood events and collective memories. Surveys of local residents and behavioral experiments will test how different forms of...
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 community...
This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop fast flood modeling technologies that can improve the design and resilience of infrastructure systems. The objective is to create flood simulation capabilities that significantly speed up assessments of flood risks and infrastructure responses, while maintaining accuracy. This high-risk, interdisciplinary research project at the University of Miami's...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $300,000 will support research to develop and pilot a novel satellite-based method for assessing the performance of flood mitigation infrastructure across the United States. The research, conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, aims to build a temporal-spatial database of flood events using machine learning analysis of satellite observations from 2001 to 2025. This database will be...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $149,944 Project Grant to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support the project "Enhancing Community Engagement in Flood Mitigation Using Integrated Hydrodynamic Modeling and Multi-Scale Socio-Economic Risk Assessment" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. Under this award, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will work to improve community engagement in flood mitigation...
This $250,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter) for the "REDDDOT PHASE 2: CLIMATE-INFORMED FLOOD RISK MITIGATION SANDBOX" project. The project aims to develop and implement an innovative, interactive flood mitigation software application platform that allows stakeholders to explore, simulate, and evaluate current and future floodplain ordinance impacts on...
This $757,974 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, to develop a systems modeling framework for designing climate-resilient levee infrastructure that supports equitable, resilient, and sustainable floodplain communities. The project aims to address interactions between levee network performance, future climates, natural infrastructure, and behavioral...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $400,000 to Clemson University will develop a next-generation flood computing system called "FLOODENGINE" to improve flood forecasting and analytics. The project will leverage smart cyber-physical systems (SCPS) capabilities to optimize data gathering and processing, develop a physics-based deep learning model, and promote knowledge transfer through innovative networks. The goal is to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $220,002 project grant under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Miami Rosenstiel Marine for collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES: WHERE, WHY, AND HOW POLICIES HAVE SHAPED FLOOD EXPOSURE OUTCOMES." The three-year project beginning September 2021 will examine how and why floodplain management policies have shaped flood risk outcomes in different...
This Project Grant award of $998,696.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a project at Northeastern University to evaluate how communities have responded to recent floods and develop new tools to help build resilience to flooding hazards. The project aims to enhance the resilience of floodplain communities by increasing understanding of the causes and projections of riverine flooding at the local level. The researchers will collaborate with...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) provides $500,000 to Purdue University from July 2023 through June 2028. Purdue will develop risk-informed, adaptive, and equitable flood risk management strategies for coastal Louisiana through improved quantification of natural hazards risks under climate change. Leveraging unique datasets and modeling capabilities, Purdue will better characterize joint risks from storm surge, riverine, and pluvial flooding. A multi-resolution, multi-model framework and artificial intelligence will estimate compound flood hazards across future scenarios to inform Louisiana's coastal master plan. Purdue will identify adaptive risk management approaches balancing economic efficiency and equity using decision-making methods robust to deep uncertainties. Educational components will increase adoption of these methods and risk analysis skills to translate natural hazards research into policy impact.