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). James Doss-Gollin and Avantika Gori (Rice) will join Keri Stephens (UT Austin), and Andrew Juan (TAMU) on a project to develop transformative approaches for improving flood resilience in rural Texas communities.

The project aims to create a performance-based framework that bridges critical gaps in flood hazard assessment and mitigation strategies for rural communities. Working in the rural communities of Fort Hancock and Premont, Texas, we will develop new methods to characterize flood risks and co-design mitigation strategies that reflect local priorities. We’re particularly focused on identifying adaptations that address both frequent and extreme flood events, and that are scalable to communities with similar characteristics.

For more details, see the press release from IDRT or the NSF award).