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 project examines the impacts of natural disasters on community resilience, focusing on how disasters disrupt human mobility patterns, aid requests, and voluntary support networks. The research involves analyzing geospatial data from mobile devices, social media, and government records to understand spatial disparities in disaster response...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $339,176 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Colorado Boulder on August 15, 2022 for work completing July 31, 2025. The grant supports research examining response and resilience to compound extreme climate events within pastoral systems, with a focus on droughts, floods, and the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts. The University of Colorado will lead interdisciplinary work analyzing how...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to improve disaster preparedness and response strategies by leveraging advances in language models and human mobility data. The $499,929 award, spanning June 2024 to May 2027, aims to: 1) develop advanced GPT models to predict human mobility behavior under various disaster scenarios using large-scale mobile data, and 2) create a "Global Data Commons for Disaster...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program funds a planning project to investigate effective science communication strategies for informing the public about environmental hazards like wildfires and landslides. The project collaborates with vulnerable communities to understand their mental models of hazards and develop evidence-based messaging to motivate protective behaviors. The planning...
This five-year, $260,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) will fund research at the University of Oklahoma examining transactive resilience in disaster-affected communities. The university will analyze relationships among non-profits, community groups, government agencies, and infrastructure to better understand how distributed networks can bolster disaster resilience through peer-to-peer interactions. The research also aims to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA Program 47.041 (Engineering) provides $171,674 to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct research on climate adaptation strategies for housing infrastructure in coastal communities. The project aims to develop a mathematical framework to analyze the interactions between human behavior, built environments, and natural hazards in the context of climate change. Key research activities include: Building a probabilistic model to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $307,590 Project Grant to Louisiana State University (LSU) through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HNDS-I: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR HUMAN DYNAMICS AND RESILIENCE RESEARCH," will fund the development of a national cyberinfrastructure to support and advance human dynamics and disaster resilience research. Key products and services to be delivered include:...
This $804,950 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program investigates the effects of climate change on rural livelihoods, including food insecurity, health, migration, and changes to traditional practices. The research examines how environmental pressures and resource scarcity may impact cooperation and conflict within and between communities. The award, which spans from August 2024 to July 2027, supports a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $170,999 Project Grant to the University of South Florida (USF) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports the development of a national cyberinfrastructure called the Human Dynamics and Resilience Infrastructure (HNDS-I) to advance disaster resilience research. The infrastructure will include four new...