Five new CSTAR projects have been awarded, with a start date of May 1 2022: (Title, Principal Investigator, Institute)

• Addressing Geographical and Social Diversity in Heat-Health Messaging — PI Kirstin Dow, University of South Carolina
• Increasing the Reach and Effectiveness of Heat Risk Education and Warning Messaging in HUSVCs – PI Kristin VanderMolen, Desert Research Institute (University of Nevada)
• Smoke Exposure and Underserved Wildland Fire Communities — PI Kathryn Goldfarb, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Integrating Environmental Justice into NWS Services to Reduce the Vulnerability of HUSVCs to Extreme Weather Events  — PI Farshid Vahedifard, Mississippi State University
• Improving Communication with Highly Vulnerable Societal Groups through Partnerships, Audience Analysis, Crowd-Sourced Information, and Workshops – PI Brian Colle, SUNY Stony Brook

NWS/OSTI supports competitive funding opportunities to the research community through the
following programs:

• Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research (CSTAR)
• Modeling Projects