APPENDIX A
Examples of Funding for Social and Behavioral Science Activities by NOAA, NSF, DHS1
FROM NOAA
TABLE A.1 Examples of Social Science–Related Research Funded by the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research-Office of Weather and Air Quality (OWAQ)
Funding/Project Type | Project Title | Lead Project PI(s), Institution(s) |
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2016 Awards | ||
Contract | Advancing Social and Behavioral Science Research and Application within the Weather Enterprise | National Academy of Sciences |
NSF Supplemental Award | Supplement to NSF award “Collaborative Research: Online Hazard Communication in the Terse Regime” | Jeannette Sutton, University of Kentucky Carter Butts, UC-Irvine |
NSF Supplemental Award | Supplement to NSF award “Improving Public Response to Weather Warnings” | Susan Joslyn, University of Washington |
NSF Supplemental Award | Supplement to NSF award “Next Generation, Resilient Warning Systems for Tornadoes and Flash Floods” | Brenda Philips, University of Massachusetts Joseph Trainor, University of Delaware |
VORTEX-Southeast | Improving Risk Communication and Reducing Vulnerabilities for Dynamic Tornado Threats in the Southeastern U.S. | Julie Demuth, National Center for Atmospheric Research Keith Anderson, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory |
VORTEX-Southeast | Lay Judgments of Environmental Cues That Signal a Tornado | Stephen Broomell and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, University of Pennsylvania |
1 NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; NSF = National Science Foundation; DHS = Department of Homeland Security.
Funding/Project Type | Project Title | Lead Project PI(s), Institution(s) |
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VORTEX-Southeast | Collaborative Research: Understanding How Uncertainty in Severe Weather Information Affects Decisions (Part 2) | Daphne LaDue, Jack Friedman, and Laura Myers, University of Oklahoma |
VORTEX-Southeast | Convective mode and Tennessee tornadoes: Climatology, warning procedures, and false alarm rates | Kelsey Ellis and Lisa Mason, University of Tennessee |
2015 Awards | ||
VORTEX-Southeast | Tornado Warning Response in the Southeast: Advancing Knowledge for Action in Tennessee | Kelsey Ellis and Lisa Mason, University of Tennessee |
VORTEX-Southeast | Multi-disciplinary Investigation of Concurrent Tornadoes and Flash Floods in the Southeastern U.S. | Russ Schumacher, Colorado State |
VORTEX-Southeast | Complacency and False Alarms in Tornado Affected Communities | Michael Egnoto, University of Maryland |
VORTEX-Southeast | Collaborative Research: Understanding How Uncertainty in Severe Weather Information Affects Decisions (Part 1) | Daphne LaDue, Jack Friedman, and Laura Myers, University of Oklahoma |
2014 Awards | ||
Cooperative Agreement | Workshop: Life and Death Decisions: An Integrative Approach to Understanding and Mitigating the Impacts of Extreme Weather | Lans Rothfusz, National Severe Storms Laboratory |
Open competition - R2O | Refinement and Evaluation of Automated High-Resolution Ensemble-Based Hazard Detection Guidance Tools for Transition to NWS Operations | Stan Benjamin, NOAA Global Systems Division |
Open competition - R2O | Probability of What? Understanding and Conveying Uncertainty Through Probabilistic Hazard Services | Tracy Hansen, NOAA Global Systems Division, National Severe Storms Laboratory |
HWT | Comparing Subjective and Objective Evaluation of Forecasts for Severe Thunderstorms | Harold Brooks, National Severe Storms Laboratory |
HWT | Testing and Evaluation of Experimental Probabilistic Hazard Information with Decision Makers | Chris Karstens, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies |
Funding/Project Type | Project Title | Lead Project PI(s), Institution(s) |
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2012 Awards | ||
Open competition - SSWR | The Impact of Uncertainty Information on Tornado Warning Response: Developing Recommendations for Warning Best Practices | Kim Klockow and Renee McPherson, University of Oklahoma |
Open competition - SSWR | Flood Risk and Uncertainty: Assessing the National Weather Service’s Forecast and Warning Tools | Rachel Hogan Carr, Nurture Nature Center |
Open competition - SSWR | Social and Behavioral Influences on Weather-Driven Decisions | Ken Galluppi and Burrell Montz, Arizona State |
Open competition - SSWR | Utilization of Real-Time Social Media Data in Severe Weather Events: A Proposal to Evaluate the Prospects of Social Media Data Use for Severe Weather Forecasting, Communication, and Post-Event Assessments | Carol Silva, University of Oklahoma |
MRMS | The Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment (PARISE) | Pam Heinselman, National Severe Storms Laboratory |
2006-2012 Awards | ||
Cooperative Agreement | Societal Impacts Program | Jeff Lazo, National Center for Atmospheric Research |
Cooperative Agreement | Integrated Solutions: Environment and Health Series | Bill Hooke, American Meteorological Society |
Cooperative Agreement | Social Science Woven Into Meteorology | Eve Gruntfest, National Severe Storms Laboratory/Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies |
MRMS | Impact of High-temporal Resolution PAR Data on Warning Decision Making | Pam Heinselman, National Severe Storms Laboratory |
NOTE: HWT = Hazardous Weather Testbed; MRMS = Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor; NSF = National Science Foundation; NWS = National Weather Service; PAR = phased array radar; PI = Principal Investigator; R2O = Research to Operations; SSWR = Safe and Sustainable Water Resources.
TABLE A.2 Examples of Social Science–Related Research Funded by the National Weather Service (NWS)
Funding/Project Type | Project Title | Lead Project PI(s), Institution(s) |
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2016 Awards | ||
BPA | Social and Economic Effects of Severe Weather Storms: NYC Case Study | Jeff Lazo, Abt Associates |
BPA | Cost Modification: Social and Economic Effects of Severe Weather Storms: NYC Case Study | Jeff Lazo, Abt Associates |
BPA | Social and Economic Effects of Space Weather | Matthew Ranson, Daniel Baker, and Kevin Forbes, Abt Associates |
BPA | Rip Current Visualization | Burrell Montz, East Carolina University |
BPA | Support for NWS Phaze IV Hazard Simplification | Gina Eosco, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
BPA | Identifying Key Partners/Users of Weather Prediction Center Products & Mapping Related User Decision-Making | Gina Eosco, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
BPA | Communicating Probabilistic Information for Decision Makers: A Case Study Using Experimental Snow Forecast Products | Gina Eosco and Susan Joslyn, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
BPA | Stakeholder Engagement to Validate Water Resources Information and Services Needs and Gather Feedback on NOAA’s NWS Initial Water Resources Services Capability | Arleen O’Donnell, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
BPA | Social Science Evaluation of National Water Center Hydrologic Ensemble Forecast Service and National Water Model Output and Technical Support Services | Arleen O’Donnell, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
BPA | Assessing Fire Weather Services From the Public Perspective | Gina Eosco, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
BPA | Cost Modification: Support for Effective Communication of SPC Day 1 Outlook with Increased Temporal and Spatial Resolution | Rebecca Morss, Abt Associates |
Funding/Project Type | Project Title | Lead Project PI(s), Institution(s) |
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BPA | Cost Modification: Support for Haz Simp III | Gina Eosco, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
CSTAR | Major Risks, Uncertain Outcomes: Making Ensemble Forecasts Work for Multiple Audiences | Burrell Montz, East Carolina University Rachel Hogan Carr, Nurture Nature Center |
Cooperative Institute - NGI | National Weather Service Social Science Curriculum Delivery FY17 | Laura Myers, NGI |
Cooperative Institute - NGI | NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards Network Transformational Change Stakeholder Engagement Phase One | Laura Myers, NGI |
Cooperative Institute - NGI | NOAA Weather Information and Dissemination All Hazards Stakeholder Needs Assessment Verification Project (Phase Two) | Laura Myers, NGI |
Cooperative Institute - CICS | Identifying Users, Diagnosing Understandability Challenges, and Developing Prototype Solutions for NOAA Climate Prediction Center’s Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks | Michael Gerst, Melissa Kenney, and Allison Baer, CICS |
Contract | Continuous surveys to measure customer satisfaction of NWS services based on the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) | Douglas Young and Salvatore Romano, CFI Group |
Contract | Advancing Social and Behavioral Science Research and Application within the Weather Enterprise | National Academy of Sciences |
2015 Awards | ||
IDIQ | Cost Modification: Support for Phase 2 Hazard Simplification | Gina Eosco, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
BPA | Support for NWS Impact Based Warnings | Joe Ripberger, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
BPA | Support for NWS Hurricane Local Impact Local Statement/Tropical Cyclone Valid Time Event Code and Hurricane Threat and Impacts Graphics | Betty Morrow, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
Funding/Project Type | Project Title | Lead Project PI(s), Institution(s) |
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BPA | Support for NWS Phase 3 Hazard Simplification | Gina Eosco, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
BPA | Support for Effective Communication of SPC Day 1 Outlook with Increased Temporal and Spatial Resolution | Rebecca Morss, Abt Associates |
Cooperative Institute - NGI | Certificate Program Curriculum Development in Social Science Applications for Meteorologists | Laura Myers, NGI |
Contract | Continuous surveys to measure customer satisfaction of NWS services based on ACSI | Douglas Young and Salvatore Romano, CFI Group |
2014 Awards | ||
IDIQ | Weather Ready Nation Societal Outcome Performance Measures | Lou Nadeau, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
IDIQ | Onset of Tropical Storm Force Winds | Betty Morrow, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
IDIQ | Support for Phase 2 Hazard Simplification | Gina Eosco, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
IDIQ | Surge and Inundation Social Science Research (Extratropical and Assessment of Potential Storm Surge Graphic) | Betty Morrow, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
Contract | Annual survey to measure customer satisfaction of NWS services based on ACSI | Douglas Young and Salvatore Romano, CFI Group |
2013 Awards | ||
IDIQ | Stakeholder Engagement to Document Information and Service Needs and Demonstrate Integrated Water Resources Science and Services for River Basin Commissions | Arleen O’Donnell, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
IDIQ | Support for the National Weather Service Hurricane Local Statement and Hazard Simplification | Betty Morrow, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
Funding/Project Type | Project Title | Lead Project PI(s), Institution(s) |
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IDIQ | Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program SocioEconomic Research and Recommendations | Betty Morrow, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
Contract | Annual survey to measure customer satisfaction of NWS services based on ACSI | Douglas Young and Salvatore Romano, CFI Group |
2012 Awards | ||
IDIQ | Stakeholder Engagement to Demonstrate Integrated Water Resources Science and Services for River Basin Commissions in the Mid-Atlantic | Arleen O’Donnell, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
Open competition - SSWR | The Impact of Uncertainty Information on Tornado Warning Response: Developing Recommendations for Warning Best Practices | Kim Klockow and Renee McPherson, University of Oklahoma |
Open competition - SSWR | Social and Behavioral Influences on Weather-Driven Decisions | Ken Galluppi and Burrell Montz, Arizona State |
Contract | Annual survey to measure customer satisfaction of NWS services based on ACSI | Douglas Young and Salvatore Romano, CFI Group |
2011 Awards | ||
IDIQ | Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program SocioEconomic Research and Recommendations Storm Surge Research Project | Betty Morrow, Eastern Research Group, Inc. |
Report on Tsunami Warning Center Warning Products Proposed and Existing Guidelines for Recognition in the NWS TsunamiReady® Community Program | Eastern Tennessee State University | |
Contract | Annual survey to measure customer satisfaction of NWS services based on ACSI | Douglas Young and Salvatore Romano, CFI Group |
2010 Awards | ||
Prototypes of Weather Information Impacts on Emergency Management | Burrell Montz, RENCI | |
Funding/Project Type | Project Title | Lead Project PI(s), Institution(s) |
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Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project & Economic Valation | Daniel Sutter | |
Assessing the Value of Climate Information in Agriculture Using a Stochastic Production Frontier | David Letson, University of Miami | |
Contract | Annual survey to measure customer satisfaction of NWS services based on ACSI | Douglas Young and Salvatore Romano, CFI Group |
2009 Awards | ||
Forecast-At-A-Glance Webpage Project | Julie Demuth, National Center for Atmospheric Research - The Societal Impacts Program | |
2008 Awards | ||
Improving the Display of River and Flash Flood Predictions | Aptima | |
2004 Awards | ||
Evaluation of NWS Flood Severity Categories and Use of Gage Station Flood History Information | David Ford, David Ford Consulting Engineers, Inc. | |
Probability Focus Groups | Sheri Teodoru, CFI Group |
NOTE: ACSI = American Customer Satisfaction Index; BPA = Blanket Purchase Agreement; CICS = Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites; CSTAR = Collaborative Science Technology, and Applied Research Program; IDIQ = Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity; NGI = Northern Gulf Institute; PI = Principal Investigator; SPC = Storm Prediction Center; SSWR = Safe and Sustainable Water Resources.
FROM NSF
TABLE A.3 Examples of Weather-Related Research Funded by the NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)
Program | Project Title | Lead Project PI(s) | NSF Award # |
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SEES Fellows, SEES Hazards | Hazards SEES Type 2: Modeling to Promote Regional Resilience to Repeated Heat Waves and Hurricanes | Seth Guikema | 1331399 |
Decision Risk and Management Sci | Distinguishing Two Dimensions of Subjective Uncertainty | Craig Fox | 1427469 |
Decision Risk and Management Sci | Collaborative Research: Multi-scale Modeling of Public Perceptions of Heat Wave Risk | Peter Howe, Jennifer Marlon | 1459903 1459872 |
Sociology | Collaborative Research: Community Reactions to Extreme Weather Events | Hilary Boudet, Doug McAdam | 1357055 1357068 |
Geography and Spatial Sciences | Doctoral Dissertation Research: Weather Risk, Climate Adaptation and Farmer Decision Making in the Southwestern United States | Matthew Turner | 1459175 |
Economics | CAREER: Economic Theory, Testing of Theories | Wojciech Olszewski | 644930 |
Perception, Action, and Cognition | CAREER: Flexible Resource Allocation and Efficient Coding in Human Vision | George Alvarez | 953730 |
NOTE: CAREER = Faculty Early Career Development Program; SEES = Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability.
TABLE A.4 Examples of Weather-Related Research with a Social or Behavioral Science Component Funded by the NSF Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
Program | Project Title | Lead Project PI(s) | NSF Award # |
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SEES Hazards, Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events | Hazards SEES: Bridging Information, Uncertainty, and Decision-Making in Hurricanes Using an Interdisciplinary Perspective | Satish Ukkusuri | 1520338 |
Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events | Structures of Long-Term Disaster Recovery: Organizational Roles and Collaboration in Six Cities | Michelle Meyer | 1434957 |
Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events | Collaborative Research: An Integrated Approach to Measuring Dynamic Economic Resilience Following Disasters | Adam Rose, Kathleen Tierney | 1363437, 1363409 |
Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events | RAPID: Network Improvisation in Emergency Response: An Application to Debris Removal Operations | David Mendonca | 1313589 |
Special Studies and Analyses | RAPID: Post-Disaster Risk Redefinition in Small New Jersey Municipalities During the Initial Recovery Period following Super Storm Sandy | James Mitchell | 1324792 |
NOTE: RAPID = Rapid Response Research; SEES = Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability.
TABLE A.5 Total Funding for National Science Foundation–Funded Weather-Related Projects Active in 2016 Related to Concepts Such as Perception, Behavior, Communication, Decision Making, or Action
National Science Foundation (NSF) Weather-Related Awards That Include SBS Research | ||||
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Estimated Total Funding by Directorate (for projects active in 2016) | Example Project Supported by This Directorate | Lead Project PI(s) | NSF Award # | |
CSE | $4.3 million | CGV: Large: Collaborative Research: Modeling, Display, and Understanding Uncertainty in Simulations for Policy Decision Making | Donald House Mary Hegarty Michael Lindell Ross Whitaker |
1212501 1212577 1540469 1212806 |
EHR | $3 million | NRT: Coastal Climate Risk and Resilience (C2R2) | Robert Kopp III | 1633557 |
ENG | $17.7 million | CRISP Type 2/Collaborative Research: Critical Transitions in the Resilience and Recovery of Interdependent Social and Physical Networks | Laura Siebeneck | 1638317 |
GEO | $11.2 million | Hazard SEES: An Integrated Approach to Risk Assessment and Management in Responding to Land Falling Hurricanes in a Changing Climate | Ning Lin | 1520683 |
SBE | $16.4 million | Urban Resilience to Extreme Weather Related Events | Charles Redman | 1444755 |
Total | $52,704,970 |
NOTES: The list is in order of the directorate managing the project; funding may be contributed by other directorates or agencies. Also shown is one relevant example of current NSF awards (active as of end of 2016) from each directorate; the award amounts for these individual examples are not provided here but are available through the public NSF web-based award search. Results were screened by hand to restrict to those with an SBS element.
CGV = Computer Graphics and Visualization; CRISP = Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes; CSE = Directorate For Computer and Information Science and Engineering; EHR = Directorate For Education and Human Resources; ENG = Directorate For Engineering; GEO = Directorate For Geosciences; SBE = Directorate For Social, Behavioral and Economic Science; SEES = Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability.
FROM DHS
Some examples of research projects relevant to SBS-weather concerns being supported through the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) current Centers of Excellence are presented below.
TABLE A.6 Examples of Weather-Related Research with a Social or Behavioral Science Component Funded by the Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence (CRC), Led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lead Project PI | Institution | Project Title |
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Larry Atkinson | Old Dominion University | A Tool to Measure Community Stress to Support Disaster Resilience Planning |
James Prochaska | University of Rhode Island | Communicating Risk to Motivate Individual Action |
James Opaluch | University of Rhode Island | Overcoming Barriers to Motivate Community Action to Enhance Resilience |
Isaac Ginis | University of Rhode Island | Modeling the Combined Coastal and Inland Hazards from High-Impact Hypothetical Hurricanes |
Rachel Davidson | University of Delaware | An Interdisciplinary Approach to Household Strengthening and Insurance Decision |
SOURCE: Homeland Security University Programs Network. (2017). Coastal Resilience Center. Retrieved May 16, 2017, from https://www.hsuniversityprograms.org/centers/crc-coastal-resilience.
TABLE A.7 Examples of Weather-Related Research with a Social or Behavioral Science Component Funded by the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), Led by the University of Southern California
Lead Project PI | Institution | Project Title |
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David Weiss | California State University-Los Angeles | Analyzing Project Behavioral and Emotional Responses to Terrorism Events |
Richard Zeckhauser | John F. Kennedy School of Government | Communicating Probability in Intelligence Analysis and Homeland Security |
John Richard | University of Southern California | Dynamics of Public Fears, Beliefs, and Avoidance Behavior |
William Burns | University of Southern California | Examining the Potential of Using Twitter Data to Study Public Response to Terrorist Threats |
Robin Dillon-Merrill | Georgetown University | Including Perceptions of Near-Miss Events and Terrorist Risk Factors in Risk Communication |
Timothy Sellnow | North Dakota State University | Inoculation Strategies for Risk Communication Messaging |
William Burns | University of Southern California | Modeling the Dynamics of Risk Perception and Fear: Examining Amplifying Mechanisms and Their Consequences |
SOURCE: Homeland Security University Programs Network. (2017) Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events. Retrieved May 16, 2017, from https://www.hsuniversityprograms.org/centers/create-risk-economic-analysis.
TABLE A.8 Examples of Weather-Related Research with a Social or Behavioral Science Component Funded by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), Led by the University of Maryland
Lead Project PI | Institution | Project Title |
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Monica Schoch-Spana | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | Best Practices for Preparing Communities: Citizen Engagement in Public Health Planning |
Kathleen Tierney | University of Colorado | Community Field Studies and Analyses of Cross-Sector Preparedness Networks |
Dennis Mileti | University of Colorado | Modeling and Simulation of Public Response to Threat and Attacks |
Linda Bourque | University of California - Los Angeles | National Household Survey on Preparedness |
Delbert Elliott | University of Colorado | School-Based Preparedness and Intervention Programs |
Elaine Vaughan | University of California - Irvine | Risk Perception in Different Populations |
SOURCE: Homeland Security University Programs Network. (2017). Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Retrieved May 16, 2017, from https://www.hsuniversityprograms.org/centers/start-terrorism-studies.
TABLE A.9 Examples of Weather-Related Research with a Social or Behavioral Science Component Funded by the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), Led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lead Project PI | Institution | Project Title |
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Eric Salathe | University of Washington | Changing flood risk - Extreme precipitation, sea level rise, and inundation |
Himanshu Grover | University of Washington | Scenario-based Flood Risk Mapping |
Adam Rose | University of Southern California | Measuring Business and Economic Resilience in Disasters |
Stephen Flynn | Northeastern University | Resilience Governance |
SOURCE: Homeland Security University Programs Network. (2017). Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute. Retrieved May 16, 2017, from https://www.hsuniversityprograms.org/centers/ciri-critical-infrastructure-resilience.