This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $100,000 to support the planning and development of a new shared-use, community-scale testbed for research on climate adaptation and disaster resilience. The testbed will serve as a cyber-physical environment representative of real-world community systems, enabling policy design, model integration, and theory development related to climate change impacts and natural hazards. The planning effort focuses on defining the testbed's scope, research priorities, governance structure, and potential synergies with existing infrastructure like the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI). Key activities include workshops, conference sessions, and surveys to solicit feedback from both researchers and community stakeholders. This award reflects NSF's mission to advance scientific knowledge and support critical research infrastructure to address societal challenges posed by climate change and natural disasters.
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