This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $400,000 in funding from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The award supports research examining the impacts of natural disasters on community resilience, focusing on how disasters disrupt human mobility patterns, residents' requests for government assistance, and the role of social media in facilitating volunteer support. The project aims to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $197,445 to Trustees of Dartmouth College to study how rural communities respond to overlapping disasters of flood water inundation and other ecological stressors. The project examines the role of community-based mutual aid networks in enabling recovery and mitigation efforts, and develops a community-based floodplain mapping tool to improve...
This $981,074 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) funds a research investigation into the socioecological outcomes of restoration programs in forest-grassland ecosystems. The research project, titled "DISES: Socioecological Outcomes of Restoration in Forest-Grassland Ecosystems," employs a land change systems perspective to analyze how restoration efforts impact both ecological and social conditions in these...
This $555,778 five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant, awarded on March 1, 2025, supports research conducted by the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to develop an integrated modeling framework to examine the interactions between coastal-terrestrial flood processes and human decision-making on flood adaptation in coastal communities.
The key research activities include: (i) surveying stakeholder adaptation preferences given flood...
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 (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $350,000 to William Marsh Rice University to investigate how engaging coastal communities in stormwater management can enhance flood resilience. The research explores two interventions: increasing civic engagement in infrastructure design, implementation, and maintenance processes (infrastructural...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totaling $428,146 will fund research at the University of Colorado Boulder from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025.
The research aims to study decision-making and collective action during post-fire recovery to inform rebuilding codes and processes. Specifically, the project will characterize how governmental organizations seek information and balance priorities to make rebuilding...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award in the amount of $399,975 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) funds research to identify "bright spots" of improving ecological conditions and human resilience, as well as "hot spots" of land degradation and human vulnerability. The project integrates household surveys, community-level interviews, and drone-derived imagery to understand...
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...
This $299,271 NSF Project Grant awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of a novel, multi-scale, multi-agent computer modeling system to comprehensively study and manage flood risk. The project, a collaboration between Lehigh University and researchers in the U.S. and Japan, aims to create an inclusive, human-centered flood risk modeling framework that considers natural conditions, human perceptions, and government policies -...