Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
1511 The University of Texas at Arlington (143399)
Principal Investigator: Michelle Hummel,michelle.hummel@uta.edu
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 2,399,762
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 10/1/22 - 9/30/26
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Department of Civil Engineering
Department, Center, School, or Institute: none
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: SCC-IRG Track 1: Enabling Smart Cities in Coastal Regions of Environmental and Industrial Change: Building Adaptive Capacity through Sociotechnical Networks on the Texas Gulf Coast
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
CFDA Link: NSF
47.041
Program Title:
Smart and Connected Communities Integrative Research Grants (SCC-IRG)
CFDA Linked: Engineering Grants
Note:
(SAM Category 1.1.1.) This integrative research grant will build on the findings from our planning grant to assess how sociotechnical networks can be leveraged to build adaptive capacity in Coastal Bend communities facing environmental and industrial threats. We define adaptive capacity as the ability of individuals and/or institutions to plan for, respond to, and mitigate the effects of the short and long-term impacts of environmental change and industrial growth (Hirschfeld et al. 2020; IPCC 2007). To address our overarching goal, we will (1) evaluate the structure and evolution of regional communication, information-sharing, and policy-making networks focused on environmental change and industrial expansion in the Coastal Bend, (2) develop and deploy a secure, energy-efficient, real-time, and reliable sensing network and data dashboard for environmental monitoring across the region, and (3) assess how the sensing and data communication technologies can be integrated within the regional communication and information-sharing networks to increase knowledge and awareness of environmental and industrial hazards and to build community adaptive capacity equitably among the diverse residents in the region.
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