The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce the recipients of the South Carolina Resilience to Extreme Storms: Research on Social, Environmental, and Health Dimensions of the October 2015 Catastrophic Flooding funding initiative.
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Impacts of a rapid, deep and persistent salinity decrease on fish and invertebrate populations and ecosystem function in the North Inlet estuary, SC |
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Examining Use of Social Media as a Response and Recovery Strategy during the #SCFlood of October 2015 |
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Flooding effects on a newly described and very rare plant species, Stachys caroliniana |
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Investigation of mold infested USC buildings affected by October 2015 flood: comparison with original mold infested areas |
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Collection and analysis of perishable data on failure of earth dams and their impact on water quality |
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Cascading spatial impact of rainfall extremes on residents |
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Learning from lived experiences: Disaster preparedness and response during SC’s historic 2015 flood and impacts on people with disabilities |
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Creative Responsiveness: Connecting stories of resiliency in crisis |
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Leveraging Perishable Impact Data into Long Term Recovery Forecasting |
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Indirect Costs of School Closures triggered by the 2015 Flash Floods |
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Collection of Perishable Data from Failed Geosystems During a 1,000 Flood Event: Pipe Culverts |
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River Gage Estimation |
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Roles of Public Libraries During A Natural Disaster: How Do Information, Technology and User Support Add Value to Communities |
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Transportation Network Fragility and Economic Losses |
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Mapping River Erosion and Geomorphic Change Caused by an Extreme Flood |
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A Foundational Information Infrastructure for Future SCFLOODS Impact Research |
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A Computational Framework for Tracking Reports, Opinions and Feelings of People in Social Media Before, During and After a Natural Disaster: Twitter Case Study in the 2015 South Carolina Flood |
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Contexts of Recovery: Investigating Patterns of Social Support and Coping in Two Communities |
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Building a disaster-resilient community: A study of community social support during the 2015 flooding |
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Flood Impact by Integrating Satellite, VGI and Social Media Data: Rapid Assessment of the October Flood |
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The effects of historic rainfall and flooding on virulent Vibrio densities in Winyah Bay waters |
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Mapping and assessing the health and social resiliency of the flood-affected community-dwelling elderly across interpersonal and organizational networks |
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School Mental Health Response and Resilience during the 2015 South Carolina Flood |
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Flood Mediated Removal of Introduced Black Basses From Select South Carolina Streams |
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Sewage overflows from the 1,000-year rain event and their impacts on the cycling of carbon and toxic metals in the Congaree River Watershed |
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Non-stationary Assessment of Rainfall and Runoff Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) Curves for South Carolina with a Pilot Study on the October 2015 Catastrophic Floods |
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Collection of perishable data from failed geosystems during a 1,000-year flood event: Dams |
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Conservation Biogeography of Freshwater Fauna: Community Dynamics and Habitat Shifts in Response to 1,000-year Rainfall Event and Intense Flooding |
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SCFLOODS - Digitization and Geo-rectification of Historic Aerial Photography of Richland County, South Carolina, 1938/39-1981 |
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Experiences of Latinos affected by the floods in Columbia, SC |
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Floodplain geomorphology and circulation |
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Rebranding South Carolina in the Aftermath of the Historic Flood: An examination of South Carolina’s Projected and Perceived Images on Travel Decisions of Potential Tourists |
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Rapid Assessment of Bridge Scouring and Recovery Following Extreme Flood Events |
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The Economic Impact of the 2015 South Carolina Flood |
26 October 2015
South Carolina Resilience to Extreme Storms: Research on Social, Environmental, and Health Dimensions of the October 2015 Catastrophic Flooding
We recently experienced a 1,000-year rainfall event that caused catastrophic flooding in South Carolina. This has led to breach in dams, damage to properties, roads and bridges, loss of homes, contamination of drinking water, and agriculture loss, to name a few of the calamities.
The 2015 October storm provides USC faculty a common platform to help our community through research and examine all aspects of community resilience including the immediate and long-term impacts on both natural ecosystems and human communities.
The Office of the Vice President for Research has created internal mechanisms of funding to support research that is relevant to the SC floods. Click here to download the request for proposals for this initiative [pdf]. Proposals are due by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, October 19, 2015. If you have any questions about this initiative, please contact Beth Herron (803-777-2885).
In addition, our office is planning to organize meetings to share data and information from participating faculty on various aspects of the flood disaster. To that end, all faculty who are interested in receiving emails and any relevant information about opportunities to pursue research on this topic are requested to send an email expressing their willingness to join the listserv to Debbie Gipson.
12 October 2015