Funding

In addition to our pilot funding through the Center Initiative, we have secured close to $1 million in funds for the Center and submitted another $3.5 million in proposals. We are working hard to make sure that the Center is an enduring institution that makes important strides towards rural resilience within Wyoming and beyond.

  

Awarded

USGS Climate Adaptation Science Center

University of Colorado, Boulder-Hosted NC CASC: Advancing the development and delivery of actionable science to help fish, wildlife, water, land and people in the North Central region adapt to a changing environment.  
This funding will allow for partnership development with the Department of Interior-funded Climate Adaptation Science Center and funding of applied community-engaged fellows (2024-2029)  
Request: $4,000,000; subaward: $200,000
Team: Co-PI Knapp 


NOAA AdSci Grant

Expanding the evidence base for climate investments toward transformative pathways: A framework to understand climate change adaptation process-outcome linkages (2024-2027)  
This project will allow our team to work with climate service providers and community-based organizations to understand how they conceptualize and would like to measure progress towards transformations to sustainability.  
Request: $400,000  
Team: PI Witinok-Huber and Co-PI Knapp

University of Wyoming Science Institute

Center for Rural Community Resilience & Innovation  
This award will help us build capacity for the Center and pilot some preliminary research projects. 
Awarded: $675,000
Team: PI Hamerlinck, Co-PI Knapp & Bukovsky

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, Regional Integrated Science and Assessment Center

Western Water Assessment: Building resilience to compound hazards in the Intermountain West. (2022-2027).  
This funding will allow for partnership development with the NOAA-funded CAP RISA, as well as funding several applied research projects
Awarded: $4.1 million [$310,000 subaward to University of Wyoming]
Team: Co-PI Knapp, Collaborators Paige and Hansen 


 

Pending

NSF Regional Resilience Innovation Incubator R2I2 (2025)

R2I2: Increasing the resilience of decision-making across scales in the arid Northern Great Plains.  
This funding will allow us to work with landscape-scale and community-level managers to understand their decision-making context and how to increase the resilience of decision-making.  
Request: $500,000
Team: PI Knapp, Co-PI's Bukovsky, Rahimi, Inouye, Gunshenan, Hawes

EPA Community Resilience & Environmental Justice Grant (2024)

Beginning Smart Climate Conversations: Equipping Youth with Science and Skills to Spur Just Public Processes in Rural Wyoming
This funding will allow us to train rural youth to engage in climate related conversations around what they value.  
Request: $3 million
Team: PI Armstrong, Co-PI's Knapp & Hamerlinck

 

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