Dear Colleagues,
The RAPID Graduate Student Scholars program seeks to expand the pool of natural hazards and disaster researchers who have knowledge and expertise in
- using state-of-the-art field instrumentation and data collection tools,
- post-processing and applying these data to advance natural hazards and disaster engineering, social sciences, and public health, and
- archiving these data for re-use by others.
The Program provides limited competitive support to enable RAPID Scholars to use and access RAPID instrumentation, facilities, and resources. Specifically, the RAPID Scholars Program provides one-on-one training, access to instrumentation, funding for travel and shipping fees, and support costs (e.g., licensed drone pilot services and archiving raw data). The RAPID Scholars program is open to all graduate student researchers in natural hazards and disaster fields who are enrolled in accredited graduate programs at U.S. institutions, including those in U.S. territories, with the objective of enhancing/expanding their current research to include field data collection.
This yearly program will accept applications from November 15, 2025 through January 31st, 2026 for deployments to be completed by June 30, 2026. Graduate scholars will receive a $3,750 grant to support their proposed work, up to $7,500 in waived equipment use fees and staff support costs (e.g., instrumentation use, shipping and insurance costs, RAPID staff field support time and travel costs, etc.), and an optional $1,500 travel stipend for in-person training at the RAPID Facility. Award decisions will be made in February 2026, to enable field deployments to be completed by June 30, 2026, and preliminary data processing to be completed by RAPID staff by September 30, 2026.
Please share this note and attached flyer with students and colleagues!
Read more and apply here: |
