Project Grant NA23NWS4690001

The National Science Foundation's Geosciences program awarded a $429,311 project grant to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) on March 1, 2024 to investigate the factors that generate and amplify coastal flooding related to high tides and storm surge in the United States. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Analysis of publicly available data, simplified ocean dynamics modeling, and evaluation of results from a global ocean community model...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $200,000 to New York University (NYU) to develop collaborative partnerships and co-identify research questions aimed at using flood sensor data to better understand and predict urban flooding, as well as implement community-level actions toward adaptation and mitigation. The key objectives are to: (1) develop and optimize data processing tools to prepare the flood dataset for actionable...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's 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 award to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. will partner with local organizations in San Juan, Puerto Rico to use advanced computer models and affordable flood sensors to improve flood modeling. The project will produce...

This $303,940 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research among Columbia University, Stony Brook University, and City College of New York to develop a science-based approach for understanding and predicting flood-borne debris damage to coastal structures under extreme wind and wave conditions. The research will employ computational fluid dynamics, computational solid mechanics, and laboratory experiments to quantify...

This $673,418 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research at North Carolina State University to improve understanding of monthly flood dynamics over the southeastern and south-central United States. Specifically, the university will quantify shifts in flood climatology, identify moisture delivery pathways for floods, and attribute sources of modulation for floods' spatiotemporal variability. Researchers will examine historical...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), provides $239,278 to the University of Washington to conduct research focused on three main topics: Modeling flood hazards in river delta systems, with a focus on the Nooksack River and understanding the impacts of morphological changes on flooding under future sea level rise scenarios. Developing a conceptual framework for modeling compound flood hazards in...

This $400,000 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems will fund the development of an integrated modeling framework to predict, manage, and reduce combined sewer overflows. Florida International University will receive funding to implement and validate a combined sewer overflow model within an existing open-source sewer flow dynamics model. Researchers will also develop a physics-based artificial...

This $499,653 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) to Rowan University supports research into how sea-level rise and coastal flooding impact the fiscal health and adaptation capacity of local communities. The objective is to investigate the effects of property devaluation and infrastructure disruption from extreme coastal events on municipal tax revenues and adaptation planning. The research aims to inform local and regional policymakers on...

This two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $180,000 to researchers at Arizona State University to study the present and future flood mitigation services of wetland infrastructure across scales in two cities. The researchers will collect data on and model the stormwater management functions of wetlands in Gresham, Oregon and Valdivia, Chile, which both have extensive wetland coverage. Functions to be examined include surface water...

This three-year, $267,089 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at Stony Brook University to improve understanding and modeling of flood-borne debris impacts on coastal structures. Using computational fluid dynamics, computational solid mechanics, and laboratory experiments, the researchers will quantify critical mechanics processes involved in water-wind-debris-structure interactions. Specific tasks include innovative...