Davidson Obilor Nwaonu, an agricultural and resource economics graduate student in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, wants to reduce agriculture’s contribution to climate change. His research seeks to understand how consumers make trade-offs between climate-smart attributes and health attributes while grocery shopping. Nwaonu is a scholar at the United States Department of Agriculture’s Graduate Student Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Partners, also known as USDA GradCAMP. Climate justice is important to Nwaonu, who came to UD from an area of Nigeria polluted by oil drilling.

Undergraduate students reflect on UD Center for Experimental and Applied Economics research experience.

In the lowest-lying state in the country, the UD researchers are focused on the project “Risks, Impacts, & Strategies for Coastal Communities.” The project received $6 million in funding; UD will receive more than $3 million for the research. Led by principal investigator Leah Palm-Forster, the team will focus primarily on the risks of flooding and salinization on coastal land. These issues are significant not only in Delaware but also in states like Rhode Island and South Carolina, where UD partners will collaborate on the work. Emi Uchida is leading the Rhode Island team, and Norman Levine is leading the South Carolina team.

University of Delaware researchers receive $1.5 million federal grant to assess the value of ecosystem services.