Project Grant 2525118
- This Project Grant award of $177,996.00, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, investigates the spatial and temporal patterns of urban heat islands (UHI) and urban pollution islands (UPI) at the neighborhood scale. The project aims to develop geographical methods to better understand how UHI and UPI interact and affect heat and air quality for urban residents. Key activities include: Collecting fine-scale ground...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $399,945 Project Grant to the University of Colorado Denver to investigate the impacts of extreme heat on transit riders in urban areas. This grant, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will examine how urban planning, land cover, and microclimate conditions influence thermal comfort and perceptions of heat exposure for transit users, especially lower-income...
- This $255,344 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at the University of Notre Dame aimed at advancing understanding of interactions between urban systems and storms and heatwaves. Specifically, the grant supports analysis of how intra-urban land surface properties and characteristics, urban aerosols, and changing urban landscapes impact extreme weather events in cities like Chicago, New York, and Denver. The University will utilize numerical modeling, new measurement...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will fund a multi-site study to investigate the relationships between climate change-related extreme weather events and acute and chronic health outcomes in children. The $687,343 award to Drexel University will support efforts to: 1) estimate associations between extreme weather (hot temperatures, heatwaves, heavy rainfall, and intense...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $647,273 Project Grant to Arizona State University under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support research from 2021-2026 to develop coupled climate and human health models to build pathways for extreme heat resilience. Leveraging its expertise in climate modeling and epidemiology, ASU will integrate climate change projections with health vulnerability data to identify communities most at risk from rising temperatures. The...
- The federal Project Grant award of $473,523 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113) will support Dr. Xiao Wu's research to develop an evaluation framework for assessing the effectiveness of heat warning systems and an implementation framework for informing when and where to issue heat alerts to maximize health benefits. The research will study the causal effects of heat alerts on daily, cause-specific health...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Rutgers, The State University, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The grant supports a civic innovation project that pilots solutions to assist low-resource urban residents in adapting to increasing heat stress and local air pollution, both outdoors and indoors. The key products and services delivered through this funding include: 1) Deploying a...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Project Grant, under CFDA program 47.050 - Geosciences, provides $291,216 in funding to the Desert Research Institute (DRI), part of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE), to develop an urban modeling system that examines the interaction between the urban heat island, outdoor water, and air pollution. The project aims to improve understanding of how cities and their excess heat, vegetation irrigation, and...
- The Arizona State University will receive $2 million from the National Science Foundation under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop novel methods for assessing individual-level heat risk across diverse populations from 2022-2026. The university will merge an advanced mobile biometeorological station with a human-shaped thermal manikin to pioneer a field method measuring detailed human heat exposure. The manikin will measure heat load received by an average body and mimic...
- This Project Grant award for $680,648 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides funding for U.S. researchers to participate in a global, multinational research project examining the combined impacts of heat and air pollution exposure on human health in India. The award supports the U.S. contribution to a collaborative international research consortium investigating the complex linkages between climate, environment, and health to help address critical...
PEDESTRIAN LEVEL URBAN OUTDOOR HEAT EXPOSURE MODELING AND MAPPING -MANY CITIES ARE EXPERIENCING MORE FREQUENT AND MORE INTENSE EXTREME HEAT EVENTS PRESENTING AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD. BUT THERE IS CONSIDERABLE VARIABILITY OF URBAN HEAT WITHIN CITIES RESULTING IN DISPARATE EXTREME HEAT IMPACTS ON DIFFERENT POPULATIONS. INTRA-CITY HEAT EXPOSURE VARIES AS A FUNCTION OF MULTIPLE FACTORS INCLUDING BUILDING HEIGHTS, TREE CANOPY COVER AND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS. THIS PROJECT USES URBAN MICROCLIMATE MODELING AND GEOSPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES TO ESTIMATE AND MAP THE URBAN HEAT DISTRIBUTION AT A SPATIAL RESOLUTION OF 1M AND AT THE PEDESTRIAN LEVEL. BASED ON THE HYPERLOCAL VARIABILITY OF HEAT DISTRIBUTION, THIS PROJECT FURTHER EVALUATES THE DAILY HEAT EXPOSURE OF PEDESTRIANS WALKING FROM HOME TO NEARBY DESTINATIONS INCLUDING PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, AND PUBLIC TRANSIT STATIONS. THIS PROJECT PROVIDES A DETAILED UNDERSTANDING OF HOW URBAN HEAT IMPACTS PEOPLE?S DAILY LIVES. THIS RESEARCH ALSO EVALUATES THE IMPACT OF EXTREME WEATHER ON THE HEAT EXPOSURE TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS ACROSS NEIGHBORHOODS. THIS PROJECT HELPS URBAN PLANNERS AND CITY GOVERNMENTS TO DEVELOP PLANS TO ENHANCE CLIMATE RESILIENCE. HIGH-RESOLUTION URBAN HEAT DATA DEVELOPED BY THE PROJECT IS DISSEMINATED THROUGH PUBLIC WEBSITES TO BENEFIT PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCHERS AND URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING. CITIES ARE EXPERIENCING MORE FREQUENT AND MORE INTENSE EXTREME HEAT EVENTS WHICH ARE AN INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD. KNOWING THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION AND THE TEMPORAL VARIATION OF HEAT IS OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE TO UNDERSTAND THE CONDITIONS THAT RESULT IN EXTREME HEAT EXPOSURE. THE PROJECT APPLIES GEOSPATIAL DATA ANALYTICS, URBAN MICROCLIMATE MODELING, PARALLEL GEOCOMPUTING, AND NATIONALLY AVAILABLE HIGH-RESOLUTION GEOSPATIAL DATASETS TO MODEL AND MAP URBAN OUTDOOR HEAT EXPOSURE. HIGH-RESOLUTION HEAT EXPOSURE MAPS PROVIDE NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF OUTDOOR HEAT EXPOSURE ACROSS CITIES. THIS PROJECT ALSO ESTIMATES HEAT EXPOSURE FOR ROUTES CONNECTING DIFFERENT ORIGIN-DESTINATION POINTS. RESEARCHERS EXAMINE THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF OUTDOOR HEAT EXPOSURE AMONG DIFFERENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROUPS ACROSS NEIGHBORHOODS TO IDENTIFY POPULATIONS PARTICULARLY AT RISK. THIS PROJECT DEVELOPS DATA PRODUCTS AND ANALYSIS TO INFORM STRATEGIES TO MITIGATE AND ADAPT TO THE EXTREME HEAT IN CITIES USING A DATA PORTAL AND WEB-BASED GEOVISUALIZATION. THE OUTCOMES OF THIS PROJECT HELP URBAN PLANNERS AND CITY GOVERNMENTS TO DEVELOP PLANS TO ENHANCE CLIMATE RESILIENCE. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $184.6k | 3/11/25 |