This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant for $284,044 supports research to assess the adaptability of resilience models for disasters like hurricanes and wildfires across multiple scales. The project, awarded to Northern Illinois University (NIU) on April 15, 2025, employs a mixed-method, multi-sited approach including public conferences, hazard mapping, risk perception surveys, and resilience plan development workshops. Key...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $207,842 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Oregon (UO). The grant, with a project period from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027, will fund research to investigate effective methods for communicating quantifiable health risks to the public in order to increase comprehension and promote healthy behaviors. The project will develop a theory-based taxonomy of risk communication...
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...
This $358,332 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a research project to develop improved communication strategies for delivering actionable snow avalanche information to decision makers in Alaska. The project, conducted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks, seeks to establish new connections between the fields of communication, actionable science, and natural hazards. The research...
This $100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a planning effort to investigate how people can better self-organize to manage natural resources. The project, titled "PLANNING: CRISES: BUILDING COLLECTIVE ACTION FOR SUSTAINABLE HABITATS," will apply behavioral science research approaches to understand and improve collective action participation in native habitat...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $217,772 Project Grant through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Alabama, effective July 1, 2024. This 3-year research project aims to investigate how individuals process information and make decisions when faced with prospects characterized by multiple layers of risk and/or ambiguity, such as those related to climate change or public health emergencies. The project will outline a series of...
This $297,513 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research that examines how scientific messaging about environmental adaptation shapes individual decision-making, particularly when people's beliefs about climate, politics, and other issues are interconnected. The project aims to develop new conceptual frameworks, methodological tools, and survey-based approaches for analyzing "belief...
This $400,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports a 3-year research project that examines the impacts of natural disasters on community resilience and spatial disparities. The project has three key components: 1) analyzing disruptions to resident mobility patterns using mobile phone data, 2) investigating spatial variation in requests for government assistance, and 3)...
Oregon State University was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to conduct collaborative research from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The research aims to improve community wildfire resilience by integrating behavioral science with evacuation modeling. Specifically, the university will study household responses to wildfire risk across four wildland-urban interface...
This $197,445 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the Trustees of Dartmouth College. The award supports a project that examines how rural communities in the United States respond to overlapping disasters of flood water inundation and other ecological stressors. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Conducting behavioral observations, interviews, and...