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Grant and Awards

Grants

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). ($400,000).

2021: PI. Early Career Innovator Fellow Program. Portland Equitable Resilience to Cascading hazards (PERCH).

NSF- Advance Catalyst Grant. ($300,000)

2021: Co-PI. Spaces of Empowerment for Equity and Diversity: Advancement through Access (SEE DATA).

NSF SCC-PG Grant. ($150,000)

2021: Co-PI. Using a Network of Campus Testbeds and Community Engagement to Accelerate the Mutual Creation, Adoption and Transfer of Urban Innovation in Cities.

NSF-CNH2-L-RUI-ROA-Collaborative Proposal, ($1,598,847)

2020: Co-PI. Undoing Legacies of Inequality in Urban Tree-Human Dynamics: From redlining to equitable and resilient urban socio-ecological systems, Co-PI

Mitigating Natural Hazard Risk in Small Communities through Shared Learning and Vision. ($3,100)

2020: Simon Fraser University. Co-PI. Community Engagement Initiative (CEI).

PSU Vision 2025. ($28,647)

2019: PI. City-to-city exchanges on socially inclusive resilience planning and adaptation to extreme events in the Pacific (C2C Pacific Resilience Project).

McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI) Ideas Fund. ($50,000) (Fund #172524)

2018: Co-PI. Resilience Planning in New Master-Planned Cities. Co-PI: Sarah Moser.

Faculty Development Enhancement Grant. ($15,000)

2018: PI Portland State University. Identifying windows of opportunity for transformative adaptation in South East Asia.

Institute for Sustainable Solutions. ($7,000)

2018: Co-PI Portland State University, “Gender in Water Careers Examining the implications of gender disparities in water resource management Profession.

SSHRC Postdoctoral fellowship. ($81,000)

2014: Building Resilient Cities: a proposal for ‘Just Adaptation’ in developing countries.

The Belmont Forum. a €1.126m (2013-2016)

2013: Member of a research consortium led by Professor Mark Pelling, Kings College London, United Kingdom). Theme: Transformation and Resilience on Urban Coasts (TRUC),

CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC, International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change (IRIACC). a $2.5m (2011-2016)

2011: Member of research consortium led by Professor Gordon McBean, Coastal Cities at Risk (CCaR).

International Development Research Center (IDRC), ($20,000)

2011: Doctoral Research Grant.

Awards & Fellowships

Outstanding Researcher Award for the Earth Sciences for 2021

2021: Columbia-Willamette Chapter of Sigma Xi

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Researcher of the Year Award

2021: Portland State University

Excellence in Sustainability Research Award

2020: Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University.

National Science Foundation-funded Enabling Fellow

2020: the Next Generation of Hazards and Disaster Researchers

Professional Development Award

2020: Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University.

Distinguish Feminist Award

2019: Portland State University, Women Resource Center.

The Ronald McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program

2018: Mentor Appreciation

Western Graduate Research Scholarship

2009: University of Western Ontario, ($105, 700)

The Rt. Hon. Jeanne Sauvé's Fellowship Award for Emerging Global Leaders

2008: Former Governor General of Canada, School of Environment, McGill University ($30,000)

UNESCO-Youth Fellow Award

2008: University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut ($3000)

Human Rights Fellow Award

2006: University of Utrecht. ($5000)

Recruitment of Excellence Scholarship

2005: University for Peace ($23,000)

UNU Fellowship Award

2005: United Nations University Tokyo, Japan ($10,000)

Nigerian Professional Award for Academic Excellence

2004: NIPRO

Merit Scholarship

2004: Federal Government of Nigeria (N40, 000)