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Center receives NSF grant to study decision making in wildfires

(May 2007) - The Center for Natural and Technological Hazards was recently awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for $288,000 to research the factors that affect protective-action decision making in wildfires. Common protective actions include evacuation or shelter-in-place, where the focus of this research will be the criteria and decision making processes that lead one of these options to be preferable in a given scenario. This project represents a new partnership between the Geography and Psychology departments at the U and will be led by Tom Cova, the director of Cnth, and Frank Drews, an expert in Human Factors widely known for his research on the cognitive load that cell-phones place on drivers.