This five-year, $224,915 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities' Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund research exploring combined climate intervention strategies for stakeholder use. A team of experts from climate science, engineering, behavioral science and ecology at Louisiana State University will advance the state of science on climate intervention scenarios that keep warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius. The researchers will...
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 $307,590 Project Grant to Louisiana State University (LSU) through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HNDS-I: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR HUMAN DYNAMICS AND RESILIENCE RESEARCH," will fund the development of a national cyberinfrastructure to support and advance human dynamics and disaster resilience research. Key products and services to be delivered include:...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $1,249,722 to Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU AgCenter) from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027 will develop and deploy an innovative, interactive flood mitigation software application platform. The platform is designed to allow stakeholders to explore, simulate, and evaluate current and future floodplain ordinance impacts on flood risk metrics in Louisiana....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) award provides $219,444 to Louisiana State University to conduct a collaborative research project on discriminating between marine and terrestrial sediments in coastal wetlands. The research aims to improve understanding of the relative contributions of marine and terrestrial sources to compound flooding events driven by recent increases in hurricane strength, precipitation, and storm surges due to climate change. The...
This $2,951,090 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports an interdisciplinary research project focused on addressing the disproportionate impacts of climate change and flood risks in vulnerable communities across the U.S. Gulf region. The project is being led by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, in collaboration with five other institutions including Tuskegee University, the University of Alabama, and...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program, is supporting a $987,639 community science initiative led by the Pontchartrain Conservancy. The project aims to co-design, implement, and study a model for community-based flood monitoring in under-resourced coastal communities in southeast Louisiana that are disproportionately impacted by climate change. Key activities include conducting charrettes and training to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts Boston. The grant will fund a one-year planning project to establish the Climate Inequality and Integrative Resilience (CLIIR) Center, which will aim to advance scientific knowledge on the links between inequality and climate resilience to inform climate resilience policy decisions. Key planned activities include expanding...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $284,044 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Northern Illinois University (NIU) to assess the adaptability of resilience models for addressing hazards such as hurricanes and wildfires in frontline and coastal communities. The project tests how resilience models can be adapted across multiple scales and develops a process to reduce community vulnerability and adapt to environmental...