2021 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). PI. Early Career Innovator Fellow Program.
Portland Equitable Resilience to Cascading hazards (PERCH). ($400,000).
2021 NSF- Advance Catalyst Grant. Co-PI. Spaces of Empowerment for Equity and Diversity:
Advancement through Access (SEE DATA) ($300,000)
2021 NSF SCC-PG Grant. Co-PI. Using a Network of Campus Testbeds and Community Engagement to Accelerate the Mutual Creation, Adoption and Transfer of Urban Innovation in Cities ($150,000)
2020 NSF-CNH2-L-RUI-ROA-Collaborative Proposal, Co-PI. Undoing Legacies of Inequality in Urban
Tree-Human Dynamics: From redlining to equitable and resilient urban socio-ecological
systems, Co-PI ( $ 1,598,847)
2020 Mitigating Natural Hazard Risk in Small Communities through Shared Learning and Vision,
Simon Fraser University. Co-PI. Community Engagement Initiative (CEI) ($3,100)
2019 PSU Vision 2025. PI. City-to-city exchanges on socially inclusive resilience planning and
adaptation to extreme events in the Pacific (C2C Pacific Resilience Project) ($28,647)
2018 McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI) Ideas Fund. Co-PI. Resilience Planning in New Master-Planned Cities. Co-PI: Sarah Moser ($50,000) (Fund #172524)
2018 Faculty Development Enhancement Grant, PI Portland State University. Identifying windows of opportunity for
transformative adaptation in South East Asia ($15,000)
2018 Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Co-PI Portland State University, “Gender in Water Careers Examining the
implications of gender disparities in water resource management Profession ($7,000)
2014 SSHRC Postdoctoral fellowship, Building Resilient Cities: a proposal for ‘Just Adaptation’ in
developing countries ($81,000)
2013 The Belmont Forum, Member of a research consortium led by Professor Mark Pelling, Kings College London, United
Kingdom). Theme: Transformation and Resilience on Urban Coasts (TRUC), a €1.126m (2013-2016)
2011 CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC, International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change
(IRIACC), Member of research consortium led by Professor Gordon McBean, Coastal Cities at
Risk (CCaR) a $2.5m (2011-2016)
2011 International Development Research Center (IDRC), Doctoral Research Grant ($20,000)
2021 Outstanding Researcher Award for the Earth Sciences for 2021, Columbia-Willamette Chapter
of Sigma Xi
2021 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Researcher of the Year Award, Portland State University
2020 Excellence in Sustainability Research Award. Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University.
2020 National Science Foundation-funded Enabling Fellow, the Next Generation of Hazards and
Disaster Researchers
2020 Professional Development Award, Institute for Sustainable Solutions, Portland State University.
2019 Distinguish Feminist Award, Portland State University, Women Resource Center.
2018 The Ronald McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program, Mentor Appreciation
2009 Western Graduate Research Scholarship, University of Western Ontario, ($105, 700)
2008 The Rt. Hon. Jeanne Sauvé's Fellowship Award for Emerging Global Leaders, FormerGovernor General of Canada, School of Environment, McGill University ($30,000)
2008 UNESCO-Youth Fellow Award: University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut ($3000)
2006 Human Rights Fellow Award, University of Utrecht. ($5000)
2005 Recruitment of Excellence Scholarship, University for Peace ($23,000)
2005. UNU Fellowship Award, United Nations University Tokyo, Japan ($10,000)
2004 Nigerian Professional Award for Academic Excellence, NIPRO
2004 Merit Scholarship, Federal Government of Nigeria (N40, 000)