A full list of Grants and Awards
Awards
2023 Outstanding Research Award - School of Politics, Security and International Affairs, University of Central Florida
2023 Research Incentive Award (RIA) - College of Science, University of Central Florida
2017 Researcher of the Year - SJ & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources Researcher of the Year, Utah State University
Grants
2024
- NSF DRMS: PI at UCF ($347,829). Collaborative Research: Group cognition, stress arousal, and environment feedbacks in decision making and adaptation under uncertainty. ($656,184).
2021
- UCF Seed Funding Program - IR: Interdisciplinary Research co-PI with Sergio Alvarez (PI), Thomas Wahl (co-PI), Chris Emrich (co-PI): Influences of coupled natural-human systems on sea-level rise adaptation pathways for Florida. ($67,500)
2019
- NAS: co-PI with Chris Emmrich (PI), Thomas Wahl (co-PI), Kristy Lewis (co-PI), Sergio Alvarez (co-PI), Sonia Stephens (co-PI): The New First Line of Defense: Building Community Resilience through Residential Risk Disclosure Resilience. ($3,403,554.00).
2017
- USDA-NIFA: co-PI with Kari Veblen (PI), Mark Brunson (co-PI) and David Pyke (co-PI): A preemptive rangeland restoration approach to improving biodiversity and provision of ecosystem services ($500,000)
2016
NSF INFEWS Track 1: co-PI for Utah State University sub-award ($423,899) with Christopher Lant (co-PI). Proposal PI: Ben Ruddell, Arizona State University: Mesoscale Data Fusion to Map and Model the U.S. FEW system (INFEWSion) ($3,000,000) (other co-Pi: Kevin R Gurney, Michael Hanemann, John L Sabo, Shade T Shutters, Tara J Troy, Alfonso I Mejia, Kristen Averyt, Megan Konar)
NSF IBSS: co-PI with Jacob Freeman (PI) and Thomas Coyle (co-PI): Diversity, Intelligence and Robust Cooperation in Social Ecological Systems ($465,893)
2015
SPARC Seed Grant from Utah State University, co-PI with Jordan Smith (PI) and Sarah Null (co-PI): Developing a coupled socio-hydrological agent-based model to examine the demand for and supply of outdoor recreation and tourism opportunities under future climate scenarios ($35,000)
Seed Grant from the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Arizona State University, co-PI with Michael Schoon, Candice Carr Kelman and Dara Wald: Collaborative Governance for Improving Biodiversity Outcomes ($7,000)
Consortium for Biosocial Complex Systems, co-PI with Michael Schoon, Ken Abbot, Erik Johnston and Jose Lobo: Working across Scales in the Governance of Social-Ecological Systems, seed grant ($1,000)
2014
- Haynes Foundation, consultant, with Prof. Hal Nelson (PI): Power Struggles: Improving Energy Infrastructure Project Siting, Outcomes in the Los Angeles Region ($127,940)
2007
- ESRC PhD scholarship (Economic and Social Research Council, UK)