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) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $399,945 Project Grant to the University of Colorado Denver to investigate the impacts of extreme heat on transit riders in urban areas. This grant, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will examine how urban planning, land cover, and microclimate conditions influence thermal comfort and perceptions of heat exposure for transit users, especially lower-income...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $399,934 to the Trustees of Boston University will examine climate action, financing, and justice issues in small and midsize cities in the United States. The funded project will survey 250 small and midsize cities to understand their climate action policies and programs, how they are funding these efforts, and how concerns about equity and justice factor into climate policymaking. The project will also conduct in-depth case...
This $394,768 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) aims to strengthen the adaptability and resilience of underserved communities to climate uncertainty through interdisciplinary research and training. The key activities include: Training minority students from underserved regions on climate change adaptation and resilience, equipping them with skills to address environmental challenges and serve the future workforce....
This $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will support research examining discursive strategies of climate justice organizing. The two-year award beginning in September 2021 will fund a study of how grassroots climate organizations communicate with the public about climate change and environmental justice. As part of its mission to strengthen the nation through basic research in social sciences, the NSF...
This $301,719 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research to develop flexible regression methods that can better measure the economic impacts of climate change. The research will focus on improving statistical techniques to accurately capture the effects of extreme temperature exposure on economic outcomes, which is critical for informing effective climate policy. The work will include...
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...
This $599,998 National Science Foundation award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to estimate the emergence of anthropogenic climate change signals in snow water resource metrics in mountainous regions. Led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, the project will use an innovative modeling framework including a large ensemble climate model and process-based hydrological modeling. It aims to strengthen understanding of when and how much climate change...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $149,999 supports research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to improve climate migration modeling and planning through August 2023. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), key products include refining scientific models to better project domestic population movement driven by environmental disasters. Researchers will enhance data sources such as the American Community Survey and novel online data to dynamically simulate...
This $1,994,481 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program supports the development of a transformative graduate training program at Portland State University (PSU) to address cascading impacts of extreme events and geohazards across scales. The five-year project, running from September 2024 to August 2029, will train 22 NSF-funded graduate students and an additional 100 students in a transdisciplinary curriculum using a...