This Project Grant award of $998,696.00 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund a project at Northeastern University to evaluate how communities have responded to recent floods and develop new tools to help build resilience to flooding hazards. The project aims to enhance the resilience of floodplain communities by increasing understanding of the causes and projections of riverine flooding at the local level. The researchers will collaborate with...
This $1.125 million project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research and development of water and sanitation resilience strategies for rural Alaskan communities facing environmental change. Over a three-year period from January 2023 through December 2026, the University of Massachusetts will work with community partners in Kongiganak and Mekoryuk to evaluate near-term and long-term water provision...
This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop fast flood modeling technologies that can improve the design and resilience of infrastructure systems. The objective is to create flood simulation capabilities that significantly speed up assessments of flood risks and infrastructure responses, while maintaining accuracy. This high-risk, interdisciplinary research project at the University of Miami's...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $150,000 to the University of Arkansas to develop a low-cost approach to monitor the Qanirtuuq River ecosystem in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska. The project involves researchers from the University of Arkansas and a geospatial company, Nalaquq, to study riverine ecosystem stability and create efficient, technology-driven...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation awarded a $274,573 Project Grant to the University of Alabama Office for Sponsored Programs Division under CFDA Program #47.041 Engineering. The award, which runs from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2028, will fund research to develop a resilience assessment framework that tracks the accumulated costs of nuisance floods as an indicator of sea-level rise. The project aims to use this information to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award for $447,754 from the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program aims to explore infrastructure interdependencies in the rapidly changing Arctic region. The project, led by the University of Texas at Austin, involves an interdisciplinary team that will integrate systems engineering, organizational sciences, civil engineering, and public health approaches to map critical infrastructure services (CIS) interdependencies in three Alaskan hub...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will develop tools and solution alternatives for coastal communities impacted by compounding flood hazards from multiple simultaneous sources. The $999,732 project, which runs from August 1, 2025 to July 31, 2030, will partner with local organizations in San Juan, Puerto Rico to use advanced computer models and affordable flood sensors to improve flood modeling and produce guidelines...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded the University of Virginia (UVA) a $199,958 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) from January 2023 through December 2027. The grant will support a collaborative research project to improve understanding of Arctic infrastructure seismic resilience amid climate change. Key deliverables include monitoring infrastructure response to permafrost thawing, co-developing equitable seismic resilience plans with local communities,...
This $288,835 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of Integrative Activities will fund a collaborative research project titled "Arctic, Climate, and Earthquakes (ACE): Seismic Resilience and Adaptation of Arctic Infrastructure and Social Systems amid Changing Climate." The award will support research and education activities over a five-year period from January 2023 through December 2027. The project aims to improve understanding of how Arctic changes impact...
The National Science Foundation awarded Dr. Culha a $180,000 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop predictive models and a digital tool for assessing permafrost landscape hazards and risks. The two-year award running from June 2023 to May 2025 will support creating a regime diagram to predict different permafrost responses to rapid warming events based on landscape and climate characteristics. This will enable hazard maps of vulnerable permafrost areas. A second...