This National Science Foundation project grant of $100,000 supports research at Purdue University from September 2022 to August 2025 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to strengthen community resilience to natural hazards like earthquakes by incorporating stakeholder priorities into risk mitigation efforts. Specifically, the university will conduct social and physical experiments to better understand vulnerability of pre-1970s concrete buildings and evaluate community...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award in the amount of $454,236 to the University of Massachusetts Lowell will advance the field of resilience analytics and enhance the ability of civil infrastructure systems to withstand natural disasters. The key research objectives include: (i) Adapting statistical physics and discrete modeling techniques to predict the type, extent, and functional integrity of damage to structural and non-structural building...
This $164,006 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support a collaborative research initiative to enhance community resilience to landslide hazards in underserved rural, isolated, and small communities (RISC) in southwestern Puerto Rico. The primary objectives are to: (1) establish new partnerships with federal and local stakeholders to facilitate data access and coordinated disaster response; (2) co-produce research questions and...
This $199,052 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports a planning project titled "CHIRRP: Engagement and Mitigation for Building Resilience Against Cascading Events in Puerto Rico." The project aims to collaborate with underserved communities in Puerto Rico to formulate research questions, conceptualize actionable solutions, and co-produce a research program that advances scientific knowledge, builds community capacity, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $303,010 supports a collaborative research project between Florida Atlantic University and the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. The project examines how communities in the Caribbean region culturally adapt to environmental disruption and climate instability. The research aims to understand how diverse populations in the "hurricane alley" between South Florida and...
This $165,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program supports the development of a novel adaptive data collection framework for automated post-disaster rapid damage assessment. The project at Arizona State University's Orspa division will create a Bayesian-based system that analyzes recent observations to dynamically update the trajectories of data collector agents toward areas with the greatest potential for information gain. This will...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $510,436 provides funding from June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2028 to San Francisco State University under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041). The award will support research and educational efforts to advance understanding of green infrastructure systems' influences on structural performance during natural hazard events. Specifically, the university will conduct sensitivity analyses and nonlinear time history analyses to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $200,000 to Montclair State University to rapidly evaluate the resilience of small community water systems (CWS) in southwest Florida impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton in 2024. The project aims to advance understanding of hurricane resilience behaviors of small CWS through surveys, site visits, and a workshop to assess storm adaptation, identify key failure causes, and determine...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $142,251 supports research examining the influence of critical zone processes on topography in Puerto Rico. Funded under the Integrative Activities program, the award will test hypotheses about how differences in bedrock geology and associated soil characteristics impact landslide occurrence, sediment grain sizes in rivers, and flood frequencies. Researchers from the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez and Colorado State University will conduct...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the University of Virginia (UVA) a $199,958 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) from January 2023 through December 2027. The grant will support a collaborative research project to improve understanding of Arctic infrastructure seismic resilience amid climate change. Key deliverables include monitoring infrastructure response to permafrost thawing, co-developing equitable seismic resilience plans with local communities,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $496,142 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to assess vulnerabilities, develop mitigation strategies, and empower stakeholders to strengthen the safety of school infrastructure, with a focus on Puerto Rico. The project converges community, engineering, and scientific knowledge to improve school safety by studying community co-production of infrastructure knowledge, conducting engineering and policy assessments, and investigating mitigation and policy solutions. Awarded on September 15, 2024, the project aims to transform how society addresses school infrastructure safety by centering community knowledge and action, and producing assessments of threats, community-specific solutions, and new policy opportunities to strengthen school infrastructure by August 31, 2027.