Grants and Awards

• 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)