NSF Grant to Study Flood Resilience in Rural Texas

We’re excited to announce that Rice University, in collaboration with The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University’s Institute for Disaster Resilient Texas (IDRT), has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Confronting Hazards, Impacts and Risks for a Resilient Planet Program (CHIRRP). Led by PI Avantika Gori and Co-PIs James Doss-Gollin (Rice), Keri Stephens (UT Austin), and Andrew Juan (TAMU), this three-year project will develop transformative approaches for improving flood resilience in rural Texas communities.

We aim to create a performance-based framework that bridges critical gaps in flood hazard assessment and mitigation strategies for rural communities. Working with Fort Hancock and Premont, Texas, we will develop new methods to characterize flood risks and co-design mitigation strategies that reflect local priorities. For more details, see the press relsease from IDRT.