This $119,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support a collaborative research project to assess the climate resilience of combined sewer systems and its impact on marginalized communities. The project, led by the University of Houston System, will develop an integrated modeling framework to analyze the resilience of a combined sewer system in Des Moines, Iowa to wet weather conditions under climate change. The...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $259,990 to Iowa State University of Science and Technology will develop a model of the Des Moines, Iowa combined sewer system to assess its resilience to climate change and the impacts on marginalized communities. The project aims to 1) advance data analytics and modeling methodologies for urban wastewater systems, 2) evaluate the resilience of the Des Moines system to wet weather conditions under...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will address the impact of climate change on household water affordability. The $405,568 award to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University), awarded on February 1, 2024, will develop a new approach to assess the environmental, social, and infrastructure factors that determine water affordability, particularly for low-income populations. The project will also design...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $498,012 Project Grant to Stanford University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant supports research to develop new adaptive management strategies for water supply planning that address uncertainty in climate trends, multi-year oscillations, and annual variability. Specifically, the university will design approaches to decompose precipitation uncertainty into different timescales and quantify opportunities to reduce...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Drexel University $449,633 under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program to conduct research titled "CROWD-SOURCED JUST-IN-TIME INLET MAINTENANCE AS AN URBAN STRATEGY FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE." The research will explore using paid civic scientists to clean storm drains and green infrastructure inlets in Camden, NJ and New York City just before forecasted...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,000 to Stanford University over 3 years, starting July 1, 2024, to research and develop a community-driven vehicular and mobile crowdsensing system to measure neighborhood conditions and factors impacting the wellbeing of homeless populations in San Jose, CA. The project aims to: (1) develop methods to reconstruct citywide maps of neighborhood environments and service needs, (2)...
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 $149,305 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support planning activities at Villanova University to develop a roadmap for smart, sustainable, and equitable green stormwater systems in urban communities. Over the one-year period from October 2022 to September 2023, the university will form a cross-disciplinary task force including researchers, government agencies, community partners, and...
This $183,897 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports fundamental research on how financial stress affects decision-making and the resilience of drinking water systems in U.S. cities. The project aims to advance understanding of the relationship between fiscal stress, policy decisions, and the resilience of critical municipal services. Key activities include conducting mixed methods research, producing...
This $650,920 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079), aims to investigate the vulnerabilities of community-managed water systems to climate change impacts and identify opportunities to strengthen their resilience. The project will focus on five climate-vulnerable locations globally, including indigenous communities in Kenya, South Sudan, Norway, Canada, and Alaska. Through a combination of climate scenario...