Grants

Massachusetts Department of Transportation: Assessing the vulnerability of MassDOT’s coastal transportation systems to future sea level rise and coastal storms, and developing conceptual adaptation strategies, January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2017, $1,133,000.

State of Massachusetts Environmental Bond Bill FY2015: Assessing the vulnerability of residents and stakeholders to flooding along the Charles and Mystic River, July 1, 2014 through December 31, 2015, $350,000.

Federal Highway Administration-Massachusetts Department of Transportation Pilot Project: Climate Change and Extreme Weather Vulnerability Assessments and Adaptation Options for the Central Artery, April 23, 2013 through December 31, 2014, $500,000.

NOAA Climate and Society Interactions (CSI)-Coasts: Overcoming the obstacles and capitalizing on the incentives for climate change adaptation in coastal environmental justice communities, PI Douglas (UMB), co-Is: Kirshen (Tufts), Paolisso (UMaryland), Wiggin (UHI), Sep 1, 2011 through Aug 31, 2013, $299,971.

Massachusetts Environmental Trust: Monitoring dam removal in Massachusetts: Towards a regional river restoration strategy. PI Douglas, Jul 1, 2011 through Dec 31, 2013, $75,000.

Town of Plymouth, MA: Biomonitoring of Eel River Restoration, PI Douglas, May – Dec 2011, $15,000

Massachusetts Water Resources Research Center: Developing a physically-based and policy-relevant river classification scheme for sustainable water and ecosystem management decisions. PI Douglas, Apr 1, 2010-Mar 31, 2011, $30,000.

NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program: The history of agricultural irrigation expansion: developing useful datasets of global irrigated area and irrigation water use from remote sensing and hydrologic modeling. PI Douglas, co-Is Frolking (UNH) and Friedl (UBM) Oct 1, 2007-Sep 30, 2010.  $549,798 (UMB $205,455)

NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP), Coastal Management: Coastal Flooding and Environmental Justice: Developing Strategies for Adapting to Climate Change, PI Douglas (UMB), co-Is: Kirshen (Tufts), Ruth (UMaryland), Gontz (UMB), Wiggin (UHI), July 2008 – Jun 2011, $299,861.

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