This $400,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports a 3-year research project that examines the impacts of natural disasters on community resilience and spatial disparities. The project has three key components: 1) analyzing disruptions to resident mobility patterns using mobile phone data, 2) investigating spatial variation in requests for government assistance, and 3)...
This $323,520 federal Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a longitudinal study on post-disaster population movement and the integration of movers into new communities. The principal investigator will conduct in-depth interviews with 54 individuals who previously relocated due to hurricanes, tracking their long-term settlement decisions, adaptation experiences, and factors influencing their ability to...
The University of Florida (UF) has been awarded a $194,057 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) to develop a novel adaptive data collection framework for post-disaster rapid damage assessment. The project aims to create an automated system that can efficiently collect reliable damage data under severe time and resource constraints in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. The framework is built on a hierarchical Bayesian model for...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $199,961 Project Grant to North Carolina State University to develop a synergistic framework for accurate and real-time prediction of rare extreme events using observational data and mathematical models. The grant, awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), aims to increase the accuracy of extreme event predictions while reducing computational costs to enable real-time...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of North Texas Research and Innovation Division. The grant funding aims to develop a comprehensive framework to streamline diverse processes and integrate advanced technological solutions into disaster relief operations, enhancing the overall effectiveness and speed of emergency response efforts. The key objectives are to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $199,638 in funding to The RAND Corporation to explore how residents of the U.S. Gulf Coast think about disasters and make decisions about evacuating prior to, or migrating after, hurricanes. The project focuses on Hurricanes Helene and Milton, analyzing factors such as disaster experience, risk perceptions, and socioeconomic characteristics that...
This $399,574 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to assess and mitigate spatial biases in large-scale mobile location data used for human mobility analysis. The University of Florida, the prime awardee, will undertake four key research tasks: 1) quantify spatial bias in mobile location data; 2) identify causes of spatial biases from the data generation process; 3) develop new methods...
This $423,690 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Florida to develop a debris damage vulnerability assessment platform and interactive augmented reality tool. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the three-year award running from July 2022 to June 2025 aims to advance understanding of windborne debris transport in urban areas through wind tunnel experiments, data-driven computer simulations, and physics-based models. Researchers...
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 $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...