The National Science Foundation awarded a $149,944 Project Grant to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette through the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support the project "Enhancing Community Engagement in Flood Mitigation Using Integrated Hydrodynamic Modeling and Multi-Scale Socio-Economic Risk Assessment" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. Under this award, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will work to improve community engagement in flood mitigation...
This Project Grant award of $987,639 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaboration between Pontchartrain Conservancy, the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley, and Louisiana Sea Grant to co-design, implement, and study a community science-based flood monitoring model in under-resourced communities in southeast Louisiana impacted by climate change. The project aims to increase multi-directional communication, community participation in...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant awarded to Louisiana State University (LSU) provides $275,000 in funding from August 2024 through July 2029. The project aims to investigate the iterative interrelations between public policies, resident perceptions/actions, and sociodemographic changes in the context of climate change-attributed extreme weather events. Key research activities include developing a conceptual framework to understand these...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant, awarded under the CFDA program 47.079 - Office of International Science and Engineering, aims to develop a flood resilience framework for coastal communities in the Caribbean region, particularly in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and St. Lucia. The $648,579 project, starting on June 1, 2024 and running through May 31, 2027, will be led by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The key project goals are to (a) create a community learning...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $299,271 to Lehigh University and Florida Atlantic University to develop an inclusive, human-centered risk management modeling framework for flood resilience. The key products and services to be delivered include: Establishing a comprehensive US-Japan flood risk data inventory, with a focus on data related to marginalized groups. Developing a...
This Project Grant award for $499,993, funded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), will develop and implement a framework to improve flood hazard assessments and mitigation efforts in rural Texas communities. The project, titled "RAISE: Flood Resilience in Rural Texas Communities," aims to leverage community knowledge and priorities to create a novel performance-based approach for characterizing and evaluating flooding risks. The research will advance...
This $199,998 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to advance the understanding of the disproportionate impacts of cascading flood events on vulnerable populations, particularly individuals with disabilities. The primary activities include engaging community partners, conducting stakeholder interviews and community listening tours, assessing the feasibility of existing and emerging flood resilience solutions, and mapping the...
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 in...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $200,000 to New York University (NYU) to develop collaborative partnerships and co-identify research questions aimed at using flood sensor data to better understand and predict urban flooding, as well as implement community-level actions toward adaptation and mitigation. The key objectives are to: (1) develop and optimize data processing tools to prepare the flood dataset for actionable...
This $319,964 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) supports collaborative research at Northeastern University to better understand the cascading feedbacks between human decision-making and delta morphodynamics. The project uses novel numerical and computational modeling approaches, including agent-based modeling, dynamical system modeling, and participatory modeling, to study how past delta engineering projects have influenced human...