
NSF Org: |
RISE Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research (ICER) |
Recipient: |
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Initial Amendment Date: | August 27, 2021 |
Latest Amendment Date: | June 6, 2025 |
Award Number: | 2052889 |
Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
Program Manager: |
Manda S. Adams
amadams@nsf.gov (703)292-4708 RISE Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research (ICER) GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
Start Date: | September 1, 2021 |
End Date: | August 31, 2026 (Estimated) |
Total Intended Award Amount: | $4,999,056.00 |
Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $5,054,069.00 |
Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2023 = $25,138.00 FY 2024 = $29,875.00 |
History of Investigator: |
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Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
1000 E 5TH ST GREENVILLE NC US 27858-2502 (252)328-9530 |
Sponsor Congressional District: |
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Primary Place of Performance: |
NC US 27858-1812 |
Primary Place of
Performance Congressional District: |
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Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): |
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Parent UEI: |
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NSF Program(s): |
SPECIAL EMPHASIS PROGRAM, CoPe-Coastlines and People |
Primary Program Source: |
4082CYXXDB NSF TRUST FUND 01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
Program Reference Code(s): |
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Program Element Code(s): |
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Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.050 |
ABSTRACT
The project will strengthen coastal resilience in communities along the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuary system of coastal North Carolina. This area has been impacted by poor water quality that threatens ecosystems and economic activities important to coastal communities. The team of researchers will measure how contaminants flow throughout the natural and built environment over time to understand processes that control their distribution and their impact on the watershed. A key goal of the Hub is to integrate a broad coalition of academic, community, NGO and government stakeholders to develop mitigation strategies and understand tradeoffs in adaptation and management plans. The Hub?s Coastal Environmental Justice Institute will serve as the central coordinating unit to catalyze connections within the community, coordinate internships (high school and college students) embedded with partners and communicate with community stakeholders. Manhattan College, a primarily undergraduate institution, will also serve to integrate STEM with non-STEM fields (business and management) to better prepare and inform the next generation of decision makers in the community.
Does engaging diverse communities in regional science partnerships make them more resilient to coastal hazards and less susceptible to environmental injustices? This project will investigate how the co-production of scientific knowledge between community members, regional stakeholders, and academic researchers contributes to understanding socioenvironmental drivers that impact resilience to coastal hazards and the adoption of solutions to overcome them, particularly for marginalized populations that are being disproportionately affected by poor water quality, hurricanes, floods, droughts, and sea level rise. Divergent economic interests, significant racial inequities, and differing degrees of flood and water quality risk for communities throughout the region around North Carolina?s Pamlico Sound, along with the ecologic and economic importance of these coastal waters, make this estuary an ideal study area for a CoPe hub. Stakeholders in the project represent fishers, farmers, local and state government, tourists, and residents at multiple nested scales of decision making reflecting different social contexts built on environmental attitudes, economic incentives and inequities, and propensities for social cooperation. These contexts are themselves dependent on individual perceptions of identity, trust, norms, and control over the environmental system. Our team of academic researchers takes a transdisciplinary approach to understanding this complex system by pursuing four objectives: (1) mapping key natural, built, and socioeconomic resources and interdependencies that define the regional socio-engineered- environmental system (SEES); (2) understanding how coastal hazards enhance vulnerabilities in the region; (3) identifying opportunities for locally appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies to build community and regional resilience; and (4) establishing a Coastal Environmental Justice Institute as a long-term mechanism to promote and support collaboration among stakeholder groups from diverse communities throughout the region and beyond.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
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