The NOAA Natural Hazards Center is currently accepting applications for the Wildfire Ready Quick Response Research and Data Publication fund. A brief summary of the three award tiers is posted below. For more information, visit the funding announcement.
Continue ReadingAvailable funds will support three possible tiers of awards ranging in amount from $1,000 to $7,500 each.
- Tier 1: $1,000 to $7,500 for individual researchers or teams studying pre-wildfire activities (e.g., fire weather forecasting, baseline wildfire risk perception, preparedness, mitigation).
- Tier 2: $1,000 to $7,500 for individual researchers or teams studying during and post-wildfire activities (e.g., fire weather alert and warning receipt and processing, evacuation decision-making and behavior, wildfire impacts, displacement, rebuilding, recovery).
- Tier 3: $1,250 to $2,500 for wildfire and/or fire weather instrument and data publication on Designsafe. The $1,250 awards will support publication of one or more research protocols; instruments such as surveys, interview or focus group guides; or observation protocols from a single project that is focused on wildfire or fire weather related research. The $2,500 awards will be reserved for those who publish a dataset and associated data collection instruments and protocols for a single wildfire related project in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
For the Tier 1 and Tier 2 awards, smaller funding amounts will be dedicated to single discipline and/or smaller-scale projects whereas larger award amounts will be reserved for social science-led interdisciplinary teams engaged in problem-focused and solutions-based convergence research.
Applicants can apply for more than one tier of activity, but separate 5-page proposals should be submitted for each tier.
Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through August 31, 2023.