Lucy Hutyra & Dan Li’s project funded by NSF
Dr. Lucy Hutyra and Dr. Dan Li received a PREEVENTS project funded by NSF on urban heat waves. PREEVENTS is the Prediction of and Resilience against Extreme Events program.
Dr. Li and Dr. Hutyra are the principal investigators of PREEVENTS Track 2: Land-atmosphere feedbacks over urban terrain under heat waves. Read more about the project here
The NSF’s announcement reads:
“Each year in the U.S. and around the globe, earthquakes, storms, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters claim lives and leave people displaced. Natural disasters destroy property, devastate communities and strain social systems from healthcare to food supplies.
From 2008-2018, natural disasters caused economic losses totaling $850 billion in the U.S. and $1.5 trillion worldwide. In 2017 alone, wildfires such as the Northern California firestorm raged, Hurricane Harvey flooded parts of Texas, Hurricane Irma carved a path of destruction through the Southeast, and Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Dominica.
This September saw another reminder of the danger disasters pose: Hurricane Dorian tore through The Bahamas.
Natural disasters can’t be stopped. But researchers supported by the National Science Foundation are working to find ways to minimize their impact. Through NSF’s Prediction of and Resilience against Extreme Events (PREEVENTS) program, NSF supports researchers studying hurricanes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, coastal erosion, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, volcanoes, space weather disruption of the power grid, and other natural hazards.”