Current Projects
| Source of Support | Role | Title | Award to Villarini | Award Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (subaward) | Lead PI | Building relationships of reciprocity among researchers and marginalized groups for resilience in the Central Midwest | $47,120 [Total award: $99,954] | 12/1/2022–11/30/2024 |
| US Department of Defense | Lead PI | Development of a decision support aid system connecting climate model downscaling and DoD infrastructure | $487,074 [Total award: $1,217,735] | 12/1/2022–11/30/2025 |
| US Department of Housing and Urban Development (subaward) | Lead PI | GLO Flood Studies - Region 1 (Phase 3) | $267,895 [Total award: $267,895] | 10/21/2022–8/14/2023 |
| US Department of Housing and Urban Development (subaward) | Lead PI | GLO Flood Studies - Region 2 (Phase 3) | $292,120 [Total award: $292,120] | 9/25/2022–7/1/2024 |
| National Institutes of Health | Co-PI | Statistical and agent-based modeling of complex microbial systems: A means for understanding enteric disease transmission among children in urban neighborhoods of Kenya | $20,826 [Total award: $109,453] | 8/30/2022–5/31/2023 |
| 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 [Total award: $50,000] | 6/1/2022–05/31/2023 |
| Iowa Department of Transportation | Lead PI | Projected Changes in Flood Peak Discharge across Iowa: A Flood Frequency Perspective | $313,923 [Total award: $313,923] | 3/1/2020–2/28/2023 |
| Thomas Jefferson Fund | Lead PI | Attribution and Projections of Changes in Discharge Across Africa and the Euro-Mediterranean Region | $10,000 [Total award: $10,000] | 9/1/2019– 8/31/2023 |
| National Science Foundation | Lead PI | Quantification of the Impacts of Urban Areas on Heavy Rainfall and Flooding from North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones | $399,934 [Total award: $399,934] | 4/15/2019– 3/31/2023 |
Past Projects
| Source of Support | Role | Title | Award to Villarini | Award Period |
| US Department of Housing and Urban Development (subaward) | Lead PI | Flood Studies within Combined River Basins For Texas (GLO): Dannenbaum | $191,500 [Total award: $191,500] | 5/11/2021–3/15/2023 |
| US Department of Housing and Urban Development (subaward) | Lead PI | Statewide high-resolution tropical cyclone rainfall generator and error/bias quantification for Louisiana | $50,000 [Total award: $50,000] | 4/1/2022–9/30/2022 |
| National Science Foundation | 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 |
| 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 [Total award: $20,000] | 9/1/2021–8/31/2022 |
| National Science Foundation | 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 |
| U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (subaward) | Lead PI | GLO Flood Studies - Region 2 (TGL20583) | $83,020 [Total award: $83,020] | 5/27/2021–4/26/2022 |
| US Department of Housing and Urban Development (subaward) | Lead PI | Probabilistic modeling of rainfall associated with tropical cyclones affecting Louisiana | $190,095 [Total award: $190,095] | 4/1/2019-11/1/2021 |
| Willis Tower Watson | Co-PI | Toward Physically Based and Usable Climate Event Scenarios | $13,457 [Total award: $13,457] | 1/1/2010-12/31/2021 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | 2020 IPA with USACE | $150,000 [Total award: $150,000] | 7/1/2020– 12/31/2022 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Lead PI | Impacts of coronavirus-driven reduction in aerosols on precipitation in the Western United States | $63,374 [Total award: $63,374] | 8/6/2020–2/5/2021 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | 2018 IPA with USACE | $160,000 [Total award: $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 [Total award: $253,496] | 1/1/2017–12/31/2019 |
| Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research | Co-PI | Detection, Attribution and Projection of Changes in Temperature Extremes, Heat Waves and Heat Stress across the U.S. Midwest | $35,000 [Total award: $35,000] | 7/1/2018– 6/30/2019 |
| National Science Foundation | Lead PI | CAREER: Temporal Clustering of Hydrometeorological Extremes | $508,405 [Total award: $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 [Total award: $384,471] | 12/28/2015– 6/30/2018 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Research Participation Program - Nancy Barth | $165,618 [Total award: $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 [Total award: $119,532] | 9/1/2014– 8/31/2017 |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Lead PI | Remote-sensing Based Characterization of Rainfall Associated with Atmospheric Rivers | $90,000 [Total award: $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 [Total award: $234,537] | 12/1/2013– 2/28/2018 |
| National Science Foundation | Lead PI | Collaborative Research: Understanding and Forecasting North Atlantic and U.S. Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Activity and Associated Rainfall | $263,206 [Total award: $263,206] | 9/1/2013– 8/31/2017 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | IPA Agreement with USACE | $220,000 [Total award: $220,000] | 9/26/2012– 8/31/2016 |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Lead PI | NMME Precipitation and Temperature Forecasts for the Continental United States and Europe: Diagnostic Evaluation and Development of Multi Model Applications |
$69,999 [Total award: $69,999] | 8/1/2015– 7/31/2016 |
| Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research | Lead PI | How Is Discharge Projected to Change for an Agricultural Watershed in Iowa Over the 21st Century? | $30,000 [Total award: $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 [Total award: $59,929] | 4/15/2014– 4/14/2016 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | IPA Agreement with USACE | $75,000 [Total award: $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 [Total award: $50,000] | 7/1/2014- 6/30/2015 |
| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | Lead PI | IPA Agreement with USACE | $27,888 [Total award: $27,888] | 9/1/2013– 7/31/2014 |