Grants
2005, PERI
Foundation grant to develop “U.S. Disaster Declaration
Map-Based Website to County Level.” ($50,000, one year).
1997-99, "Disasters and Coastal Zone States: A Policy
Analysis of Approvals, Turndowns, Spatial Impacts and
Relief Spending 1953-95," National Sea-Grant Program.
($38,000 one year).
1996-97 , Economics of Disaster Instructor Guide," for the
Emergency Management Institute of the U.S. Federal
Emergency Management Agency, Emmitsburg, Md. ($25,000 first
year).
1995-96 , Politics of Disaster Course Module," for the
Emergency Management Institute of the U.S. Federal
Emergency Management Agency, Emmitsburg, Md. ($20,000 first
year).
1994-95, Natural Hazards Research and Applications Center
of University of Colorado, "Quick Response Grant," to
support field research of the California presidentially
declared flood disasters of winter 1995.
1993-94, Fund for Improvement of Post-Secondary Education,
Community Service for College Students, 2 rounds of
application.
1991-92, CO-principal investigator, "Sociobehavioral and
Emergency Management Aspects of Catastrophic Marine Oil
Spills," Sea Grant Office of National Oceanic an
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce. With
J.M. Nigg of Disaster Research Center, $68,200.
1988, One of only three grants awarded to develop an
experimental course, "U.S. Disaster Politics: Studies in
Emergency Management and Policy," to be taught on the
undergraduate level in January 1989 Winter Session, funded
by the Office of the Provost.
1988, July, University of Delaware Sea Grant Program,
"Emergency Management in the Delaware Estuary," for
publication in issue of Delaware Estuary Situation Report,
one-ninth salary.
1987, July, University of Delaware Sea Grant Program, to
continue television production work on "Delaware River,
Delaware Bay," one-ninth salary.
1984, General University Research Committee, "Research of
Declassified AEC Advisory Committee Records at DOE
Archives," one-ninth salary.
1983, Improvement of Instruction Grant, "To Develop an
Introductory-Level Public Policy Course," and "To Develop
Computer Software for Use In Organizational Theory and
Public Administration Instruction," one-ninth salary.
1980-81, NSF LOCI Grant of $25,000 to support development
of four PLATO-based Political Science Instructional
Simulations.