Funded Projects

  • INFEWS/T1: Climate-induced Extremes on the Food, Energy, Water Nexus (C-FEWS) and the Role of Engineered and Natural Infrastructure. Subcontract to grant funded by the National Science Foundation. 2019-2024

  • ACT: From targets to action - public responses to climate policy instruments. Funded by CICERO Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research, Research Council of Norway 2018-2020. 

  • Assessment of 17 VCAPS processes for climate change adaptation planning and hazard management. Funded by Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments (CISA), University of South Carolina. 2017 – 2018. 

  • Supporting local comprehensive planning and climate change adaptation planning in Wellfleet, MA. Funded by MIT Sea Grant. 2017 - 2018. 

  • Design of a consent-based siting process for commercial spent nuclear fuel and defense high level waste. Advice, feedback, and complete review papers for the Office of Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy. 2015 – 2016. 

  • Sustainability planning for the Railway Association. Funded by the Railway Association of Canada. 2014 - 2015 

  • Solar energy evolution and diffusion studies. Funded by the National Renewable Energy Lab. 2013 - 2016 

  • Mapping the decision context for regional sustainability decisions. Funded by the Environmental Protection Agency. 2013 - 2014. 

  • Role of private business in regional civic dialogues about sustainability. Funded by the Network for Business Sustainability. 2013. 

  • Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for Dauphin Island, Alabama. Project sponsored by the City of Dauphin Island, Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab/Mobile Bay National Estuary Program to organize and facilitate workshop with local officials. 2012. 

  • Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for the City of Orange Beach, Alabama. Project funded by Mississippi Sea Grant to organize and facilitate workshop with local officials. 2012.  

  • Improving the links between community preferences for future land-use and clean-up decisions:  A Community Guide and training for local stakeholders. Project funded by the Community Involvement Fund under subcontract with the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. 2011 - 2012. 

  • Promoting climate change awareness and adaptive planning in Atlantic fisheries communities using dialogue-based participatory vulnerability analysis. Project funded by NOAA Coastal Oceans Climate Adaptation (COCA) Program. 2012 - 2014 

  • Using participatory scenario building to encourage climate-resilient zoning in the coastal Carolinas. Project funded by National Sea Grant Program. 2012 – 2014. 

  • A participatory approach to building a systems-based understanding of the vulnerability of commercial fishermen to workplace hazards. Project funded by Northeast Center for Agriculture and Occupational Health. 2012. 

  • Helping communities understand their vulnerability to climate change related hazards. Project funded by MIT Sea Grant Program. 2011 – 2013. 

  • Social distrust: implications and recommendation for spent nuclear fuel and high level radioactive waste management and Options for Developing Public and Stakeholder Engagement for the Storage and Management of Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) and High Level Waste (HLW) in the United States. Reports completed for President Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. 2010 – 2011. 

  • A communicative approach to understanding the association between procedural performance and the legitimacy of outcomes. Project funded by the National Science Foundation. 2010 - 2012 

  • Tourism behavior at coral reefs. Project funded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coral Reef Conservation Program. 2010 – 2012. 

  • Informing coastal management adaptation planning and decision making for climate change using an interactive risk-based vulnerability assessment tool. Project funded by NOAA Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP). 2009 – 2011. 

  • Social disruption from oil spills and spill response: Characterizing effects, vulnerabilities, and the adequacy of existing data to inform decision-making. Project funded by NOAA Coastal Response Research Center. 2008 – 2010. 

  • Cordova Study Site – Social disruption from oil spills and spill response. Project funded by Oil Spill Recovery Institute. 2008 – 2010.

  • Successful collaborative planning for oil spill response readiness. Project funded by NOAA Coastal Response Research Center. 2007. 

  • Demonstrating a risk-based approach to rapid vulnerability assessment in New England fishery communities. Project funded by the National Marine Fisheries Service. 2007 – 2008. 

  • Three Evaluative Tools to Empower Local Communities in the Environmental Cleanup of Sediment Contaminated Sites: A Comparative Analysis. Project funded by Environmental Protection Agency. 2003 – 2007. 

  • Developing methods to identify and characterize vulnerable populations in northeast marine fish communities. Project funded by National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA. 2004 –2005. 

  • Close encounters with the animal mind – How does the public think about dolphin intelligence? Project funded by Museum Studies Association with the Wildlife Conservation Service and the Bronx Zoo. 2004 – 2005. 

  • Toward better theory of public participation. Project funded by the National Science Foundation. 2001 – 2003. 

  • Community response to risk communication about low dose radiation exposures. Project funded by Department of Energy under subcontract with Decision Research, Eugene, OR. 2000 – 2002. 

  • Social and Ecological Transferability of Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Models. Project funded by Environmental Protection Agency under subcontract with Marine Biological Lab.  1997 – 2001. 

  • Factors Influencing the participation of local governmental officials in environmental policy making.  Three case studies of the National Estuary Program.  Project funded by the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency. 1996 – 2000. 

  • Evaluating Public Participation Processes by Combining Perspectives of Planners, Participants, and Normative Theory. Project funded by the National Science Foundation. 1995 – 1997. 

  • Sustainability indicators for rural community development. Project funded by University of Vermont 1994 – 1995.