This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research on understanding how compound flood mechanisms influence decision-making about shoreline adaptation in multi-jurisdictional governance systems and how those decisions modify flood risk patterns. The $555,778 award, effective March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2030, will develop an integrated modeling framework to examine the emergent behavior that arises from the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $180,000 from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2027 will support a postdoctoral research project using numerical modeling and synthetic stratigraphy generation to evaluate the impacts of extreme storms on delta channel mobility. The key objectives are to: 1) clarify expected rates and types of delta shoreline evolution over 100 to 10,000 years, informing coastal mitigation plans; 2) determine if...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $338,559 to the University of Arkansas will fund a research project titled "Loops in Coastal Channel Networks: A Theoretical, Experimental, and Field-Based Investigation of their Morphodynamic Stability." The project aims to explore the stability of channel loops found in river delta networks, which existing theory suggests should be unstable. The research will use a three-pronged...
This Project Grant award in the amount of $317,289 was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside. The project aims to develop a new unified theory for the processes that prime river avulsions, where rivers jump out of their banks and carve a new path across the landscape, and test this theory using experiments and satellite observations. Specifically, the research will investigate the coupling...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports a collaborative research project investigating how living in a border region shapes experiences of adapting to environmental change. The $142,723 award, commencing on August 1, 2025 and concluding on July 31, 2028, will fund empirical analyses and community-engaged research led by scholars at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the...
This $209,484 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), will support research at the University of Michigan examining decision-making under evolving and conditional flood risk associated with coastal flood barriers. The research will develop an integrated framework combining risk modeling, economic decisions modeling, and social behavioral modeling to...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $298,982 Project Grant to Texas A&M University on September 1, 2021 with a completion date of August 31, 2023. The grant supports the EAGER project "SYNCHRONIZING DECISION-SUPPORT VIA HUMAN- AND SOCIAL-CENTERED DIGITAL TWIN INFRASTRUCTURES FOR COASTAL COMMUNITIES" under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will fund the development of digital twin...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $114,675 to the University of North Texas (UNT) to conduct a longitudinal survey study on the temporal dynamics of household flood adjustment behaviors. The 3-year research project aims to understand the mechanisms that lead individuals to adopt flood hazard adjustment behaviors over time. The study employs a survey design to track how flood hazard...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $174,000 to fund research from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2024. The funding supports a study investigating the impact of flooding intensity on levee development and dynamics. The Geosciences program aims to advance fundamental knowledge and understanding of Earth's integrated systems through basic research in atmospheric, Earth, and ocean sciences. This award will further those goals by exploring...