Grant Name:

Towards Mechanistic Modeling of Rain-Driven Mudflows on Wildfire-burned Soils

  • Date Awarded:
    Aug 2025
     
  • Amount:
    $1,300,000
     
  • Term:
    60 months
     
  • Grant ID:
    GBMF13831
     
  • Funding Area:
    Science
     
 
 

To elucidate the coupled drop impact, water runoff, erosion, resuspension and grain–liquid mixing mechanisms by which intense rainstorms convert water-repellent, wildfire-burned soils into destructive mudflows.

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