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.
Available 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.
