Seed funding is where big ideas take root, and real impact begins. It allows researchers, educators, and community partners to test new approaches, build interdisciplinary teams, and generate early momentum that can scale into long-term impact. Seed funding plays a critical role in growing bold concepts into practical, on-the-ground solutions that support scientific capacity and …
CLIMBS continues to expand Kentucky’s storm resilience toolkit. One of those tools, grounded in Project 7 – Integrating Artificial Intelligence, is AI-driven weather and climate modeling, with the potential of high-resolution forecasting down to street level. Disaster scientist Dr. Manmeet Singh recently joined Western Kentucky University with EPSCoR support, bringing this tool to the project, …
Enhancing Kentucky’s Storm Resilience Through AI: Dr. Manmeet Singh Joins CLIMBS Read More »
From one Track-1 award to another – we are building resilience in Kentucky. Eric Wooldridge, PE, RA, a former KY NSF EPSCoR Track-1 KAMPERS participant (https://lnkd.in/eXE3drMy), has taken that challenge head-on. As director KCTCS‘ Additive Manufacturing Program at Somerset Community College and a graduate of University of Kentucky Pigman College of Engineering, he’s pioneered 3D-printed …
Wooldridge, KAMPERS Participant, Builds Kentucky’s 1st 3D-Printed Concrete Home Read More »
From Environmental Monitor: https://www.fondriest.com/news/improving-flood-monitoring-and-prediction-in-eastern-kentucky-through-real-time-data.htm By Samantha Baxter When it comes to flood prediction and disaster mitigation, real-time data is a necessity. The University of Louisville (UofL) is working to set up real-time flood monitoring systems in waterways throughout Eastern Kentucky in hopes of improving flood models, response times, and flood management. A key part of this …
Geologic hazards are complicated, connected, and continuous. While extreme precipitation events can cause catastrophic flooding, the intense precipitation can also induce widespread landslide activity. The landslide deposits can block small streams or send pulses of materials into rivers, exacerbating the destructiveness of the flood by changing the nature of the flow and providing larger debris …
CLIMBS Researchers Go Global in Finding Hazard Solutions through NSF’s CLaSH Initiative Read More »
Lexington, Kentucky — On September 19th, SuperCollider 2025 once again united the KY NSF EPSCoR research community under one roof for a day of updates, collaboration, and student-driven innovation. For the first time, SuperCollider was centered around the new Track-1 project, CLIMBS. This year’s event marked a major milestone in CLIMBS’ mission to advance hazard …
Recap: SuperCollider 2025 In-Person, All-Hands Collaboration Read More »
As CLIMBS works to strengthen climate and hazard resilience across Kentucky, its faculty forms the backbone of the initiative. Dr. Weibing Gong, a new addition to the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, brings expertise in landslide hazards and geotechnical engineering, directly advancing Project 5 of CLIMBS: forecasting and mitigating landslides across the state. …
CLIMBS Welcomes Weibing Gong, UK Faculty and Natural Hazards Engineer Read More »
How does CLIMBS mitigate landslide impacts? With hillslope monitoring stations all across Eastern Kentucky! Watch as Ryan Ramsey, a University of Kentucky graduate student and Kentucky Geological Survey geologist, and his team install a landslide monitor in Floyd County’s Jenny Wiley State Park and explain how CLIMBS Project 5 will use the data from these …
WATCH: Ryan Ramsey and Crew Install Landslide Monitors in Floyd County Read More »
As CLIMBS continues to build climate resilience in Kentucky, it also builds its faculty research capacity, with the goal of extending CLIMBS objectiv es well beyond the five years of the initial project. Dr. Trisha Spanbauer, a new CLIMBS hire at the University of Kentucky with a sharp focus on Project 2, Paleo-Perspectives, is a …
PhD students from the CLIMBS project recently shared their expertise at the Kentucky Association of Environmental Education’s Outdoor Learning Symposium (OLS), leading a session designed to help K–12 teachers bring flood preparedness into the classroom. The session, titled “Flood Preparedness: Using Local Data to Inform Active Learning,” introduced teachers to practical ways of using stream …
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