The U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have jointly invested in research projects to advance community and infrastructure resilience to natural hazards. The projects are supported through the joint NSF-NIST Disaster Resilience Research Grants program, which is part of NSF's broader coordination of its disaster-related research portfolio with NIST and other federal agencies.

Above, Princeton University engineering professor Ning Ling and colleagues collect data on houses damaged at Ortley Beach, New Jersey, after Hurricane Sandy. With support from other NSF resilience programs, researchers at Princeton, Rutgers Universities and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution developed a computer simulation that estimates that storm-related flooding on the New York City coastline, similar in scale to what was seen during Sandy, is likely to become more common in coming decades. Learn more.

Credit: Ning Lin, Princeton University