Enhancing Community Resilience with NOAA’s National Water Model: Key Insights from GRI-CUAHSI Research
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The Global Resilience Institute, in partnership with CUAHSI and with funding from CIROH, are working to aid communities across the United States to leverage NOAA’s National Water Model (NWM) in their resilience-related planning and decision making. In this interview, GRI’s Senior Research Scientist, Dr. Kristin Raub, and CUAHSI collaborators, Dr. Tony Castronova and Dr. Irene Garousi-Nejad, discuss their experience in this three-phase project.
Passionate about developing science that serves a practical purpose, Dr. Raub highlights that this interdisciplinary study effectively links water-related data to meet diverse and localized community needs. She highlights the critical gap this project addresses: bridging academic research with real-world, practical applications to enhance decision-making processes and community engagement. This approach has involved ongoing dialogue to create useful resources that increase the accessibility of scientific tools, like the NWM, for use by local stakeholders.
The latest phase of the study (Phase 3) is exploring how the NWM can help increase community capacity to engage in resilience- and water-related decision making by co-developing NWM resources with the organizations that support them.
To read more about this project we invite you to visit: https://globalresilience.northeastern.edu/project/cooperative-institute-for-research-to-operations-in-hydrology-ciroh/