Current Projects
| Source of Support | Role | Title | Award to Iowa | Award Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Iowa | Lead PI | Building Connected Communities in Rural Watersheds: Collaborative Partnerships for Actionable Science | $50,000 | 6/1/2022–05/31/2023 |
| U.S. Geological Survey (via the Iowa Water Center) | Lead PI | Understanding the impacts of corona virus-related reduction in aerosols and pollution on precipitation and discharge across Iowa | $20,000 | 9/1/2021–08/31/2022 |
| US Department of Housing and Urban Development (subaward) | Lead PI | Flood Studies within Combined River Basins For Texas (GLO): Dannenbaum | $191,500 | 5/11/2021–3/15/2023 |
| U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (subaward) | Lead PI | GLO Flood Studies - Region 2 (TGL20583) | $83,020 | 5/27/2021–4/26/2022 |
| Iowa Department of Transportation | Lead PI | Projected Changes in Flood Peak Discharge across Iowa: A Flood Frequency Perspective | $313,923 | 3/1/2020–2/28/2023 |
| National Science Foundation (NSF) | Co-PI | Support for Young Investigator Participation at the 8th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM8), Iowa City, August 17–19, 2020 | $45,405 (total amount, not the amount of which Dr. Villarini is in charge) | 12/1/2019– 11/30/2022 |
| Thomas Jefferson Fund | Lead PI | Attribution and Projections of Changes in Discharge Across Africa and the Euro-Mediterranean Region | $10,000 | 9/1/2019– 8/31/2022 |
| NSF | Lead PI | Quantification of the Impacts of Urban Areas on Heavy Rainfall and Flooding from North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones | $399,934 | 4/15/2019– 3/31/2023 |
| NSF | Co-PI | NRT-INFEWS: Paths to Sustainable Food-Energy-Water Systems in Resource-Limited Communities | $2,999,869 (total amount, not the amount of which Dr. Villarini is in charge) | 8/30/2016–8/29/2022 |
Past Projects
| Source of Support | Role | Title | Award to Iowa | Award Period |
| US Department of Housing and Urban Development (subaward) | Lead PI | Probabilistic modeling of rainfall associated with tropical cyclones affecting Louisiana | $190,095 | 4/1/2019-11/1/2021 |
| Willis Tower Watson | Co-PI | Toward Physically Based and Usable Climate Event Scenarios | $13,457 | 1/1/2010-12/31/2021 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | 2020 IPA with USACE | $150,000 | 7/1/2020– 12/31/2022 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Lead PI | Impacts of coronavirus-driven reduction in aerosols on precipitation in the Western United States | $63,374 | 8/6/2020–2/5/2021 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | 2018 IPA with USACE | $160,000 | 9/1/2018– 12/31/2020 |
| U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (subaward) | Lead PI | Hydrometeorological Impacts on Water Quantity and Quality across Iowa’s Streams | $253,496 | 1/1/2017–12/31/2019 |
| Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) | Co-PI | Detection, Attribution and Projection of Changes in Temperature Extremes, Heat Waves and Heat Stress across the U.S. Midwest | $35,000 | 7/1/2018– 6/30/2019 |
| NSF | Lead PI | CAREER: Temporal Clustering of Hydrometeorological Extremes | $508,405 | 5/1/2014– 4/30/2019 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | Water Resources and Geospatial Analysis: Attribution of Changes and Evaluation of Actionable Climate Information across the Northern Great Plains and the Central United States | $384,471 | 12/28/2015– 06/30/2018 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Research Participation Program - Nancy Barth | $165,618 | 6/1/2015– 5/31/2018 |
| U.S. Geological Survey | Lead PI | Development of a Comprehensive Hazard to Loss Modeling Methodology for the Residential Damage Associated with Inland Flooding from North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones | $119,532 | 9/1/2014– 8/31/2017 |
| NASA | Lead PI | Remote-sensing Based Characterization of Rainfall Associated with Atmospheric Rivers | $90,000 | 9/1/2014– 8/31/2017 |
| NOAA Programs for Disaster Relief Appropriation Act –Non Construction and Construction (subaward) | Lead PI | Skillful Prediction of Seasonal Hurricane Frequency, Track and Fall | $234,537 | 12/1/2013– 2/28/2018 |
| NSF | Lead PI | Collaborative Research: Understanding and Forecasting North Atlantic and U.S. Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Activity and Associated Rainfall | $263,206 | 9/1/2013– 8/31/2017 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | IPA Agreement with USACE | $220,000 | 9/26/2012– 8/31/2016 |
| NOAA | Lead PI | NMME Precipitation and Temperature Forecasts for the Continental United States and Europe: Diagnostic Evaluation and Development of Multi Model Applications |
$69,999 | 8/1/2015– 7/31/2016 |
| Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research (CGRER) | Lead PI | How Is Discharge Projected to Change for an Agricultural Watershed in Iowa Over the 21st Century? | $30,000 | 7/1/2014– 6/30/2016 |
| U.S. Geological Survey (via the Iowa Water Center) | Lead PI | Development of a Framework for Discharge Forecasting Over Iowa | $59,929 | 4/15/2014– 4/14/2016 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | IPA Agreement with USACE | $75,000 | 9/1/2014– 8/31/2015 |
| Iowa Nutrient Research Center | Lead PI | Modeling of Nitrate Loads and Concentrations in the Raccoon River | $50,000 | 7/1/2014- 6/30/2015 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | IPA Agreement with USACE | $27,888 | 9/1/2013– 7/31/2014 |