We are thankful for our sponsors, NOAA, Housatonic Valley Association, Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, and NFWF.

      MMSD - partners for a cleaner environment

  1. Hosting PI. Cooperative Institute of Great Lake Research (CIGLR) Postdoc fellowship 2024.4-2025.3, “Enhancing Inundation Forecasting in Great Lakes Regions Using Remote-Sensed Flood Mapping and Depth Estimation”, $90,000 , Role;
  2. CoPI/Institutional PI  DoE/NREL, “Power Planning for Alignment of Climate and Energy Systems (PACES)”, , $90,000 Role: 2024.1-2025.12
  3. PI  NOAA/IRA, “Alaska Customized Algorithm Development for Flood Detection from SAR Imager”, , $231,000, 2023.10-2026.9.
  4. PI NOAA/Wisconsin Seagrant: Mapping the Dynamics of Social inequity on Flood Vulnerability under Climate Change, $260,000 2024.2-2026.1.
  5. PI UWM/Discovery Innovation Grant (DIG): Mapping the Dynamics of Social inequity on Flood Vulnerability under Climate Change $119,153, 2023.7-2024.12.
  6. PI NOAA/IIJA, Award No.: NA22OAR4050676I. “Near-Real-Time Flood Observing by Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellites over the CONUS area”, $480,000, 2022.9—2025.8
  7. PI Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District: MMSD, “Climate Change Initiative Audit”, $50,000. 2023-2024.
  8. CoPI/Institutional PI, National Center for Meteorology (NCM), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, “The development of numerical models to improve the accuracy of the weather forecasts initiative”, 2023.1-2024.12, sub amount $55,000.
  9. CoPI/Institutional PI, NSF/DEB “Collaborative Research: BioCP-Implementation: BioFI- Biodiversity Forecasting Initiative to Understand Population, Community and Ecosystem Function Under Global Change”, 2022-2024, sub amount $55,000 (subcontract).
  10. Co-PI/Institutional PI NASA/ROSES, Award No.: 21-BIODIV21-0011 “TraitsCape: Understanding the role of microrefugia in buffering fynbos from global change”, Biodiversity: Marine, Freshwater, and Terrestrial Biodiversity Survey of the Cape (BioSCape) Airborne Campaign Science Team. $40,000 (subcontract), 2022-2025.
    Prior to joining UWM
  11. PI Eversource Energy Center,  “Evaluation of Substations Vulnerability of Flooding in Current and Climate Change Scenarios Phase I”, $145,000, 2016-2017.
  12. PI Eversource Energy Center, “Evaluation of Substations Vulnerability of Flooding in Current and Climate Change Scenarios Phase II”, $245,000, 2018-2019
  13. PI Eversource Energy Center, “Evaluation of Substations Vulnerability of Flooding in Current and Climate Change Scenarios Phase III”, $270,000, 2020-2021
  14. PI National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s New England Forests and Rivers Fund (NFWF NEFR) 2018 round, “Planning for Fish-Friendly and Flood-Resilient Road-Stream Crossings in the Berkshire Hills” Towns: Alford, Egremont, Great Barrington, Richmond, West Stockbridge (MA); Total amount: $85,000, subcontract amount: $24,000 (subcontracted from Berkshire Regional Planning Commission (BRPC)), 2022.
  15. PI Massachusetts Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MAMVP) grant program 2020 round: “Planning for Fish-Friendly and Flood-Resilient Road-Stream Crossings in New York” Towns: Stockbridge, Pittsfield, New Marlborough and Lenox (MA), subcontract amount: $16,000 (subcontracted from Housatonic Valley Association), 2021.
  16. PI National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Long Island Sound Futures Fund (NFWF LISFF) 2019 round, “Planning for Fish-Friendly and Flood-Resilient Road-Stream Crossings in the Naugatuck Valley”, Towns: Watertown, Naugatuck, Beacon Falls (CT) Total amount: $67,000, subcontract amount: $16,000 (subcontracted from Housatonic Valley Association), 2020.
  17. PI New York State Climate Smart Communities (NYSCSC) Grant Program (2017 round): “Planning for Fish-Friendly and Flood-Resilient Road-Stream Crossings in New York” Towns: North East and Amenia, NY, subcontract amount: $16,000(subcontracted from Housatonic Valley Association), 2019
  18. PI New York State Climate Smart Communities (NYSCSC) Grant Program (2016 round), “Planning for Fish-Friendly and Flood-Resilient Road-Stream Crossings in New York” Towns: Dover (NY), subcontract amount: $16,000 (subcontracted from Housatonic Valley Association), 2018.
  19. PI Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA) Municipal Resilience Grant program “Planning for Fish-Friendly and Flood-Resilient Road-Stream Crossings in Northwest CT 2016 round”: Towns: Oxford, Seymour (CT), Total Amount: $33,000, subcontract amount: $16,000 (subcontracted from Housatonic Valley Association), 2017.
  20. PI National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s New England Forests and Rivers Fund (NFWF NEFR), “Planning for Fish-Friendly and Flood-Resilient Road-Stream Crossings in Northwest CT 2015 around” Towns: Salisbury, Sharon, Kent, Cornwall, Norfolk, Colebrook, Canaan (CT), Total amount: $125,000, subcontract amount: $25,000 (subcontracted from Housatonic Valley Association), 2016
  21. PI Travelers “Sewer Backup Risk Score”, $45,000, 2018-2019.