Primary Recipient

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Amount

$96,000.00

Award Date

8/06/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Fires in steep chaparral landscapes are often followed by catastrophic debris flows. Because of this threat, another potentially significant post-fire erosional process, wind erosion, has been under-appreciated. Observations from a burned area in Southern