Margaret A. Davidson Resilience Scholars Program
The South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium established the annual Margaret A. Davidson Undergraduate Resilience Research Scholars Program to provide research opportunities. This program allows undergraduate students to contribute novel and innovative ideas and solutions to becoming a more resilient society.
Applications are not currently open.
Member Institutions
The Consortium member institutions are Clemson University, Coastal Carolina University, College of Charleston, Francis Marion University, Medical University of South Carolina, S.C. Department of Natural Resources, S.C. State University, The Citadel, and University of South Carolina.
Resilience in South Carolina
The S.C. Office of Resilience is defining resilience as the ability of communities, economies and ecosystems within South Carolina to anticipate, absorb, recover, and thrive when presented with environmental change and natural hazards. Research could occur in just about any university department from Business to Biology to Engineering to Public Health, social sciences or biophysical sciences.
Research is needed in many fields. Examples are listed below but there are many more areas of work that could be included.
- Green infrastructure implementation to address a specific problem.
- Solutions for changes in stormwater quantity or quality.
- Community adaptation to sea level rise.
- Farming adaptation to increased salinity in groundwater.
- Understanding how people respond to or are impacted by storm evacuation orders.
- Education of town staff or residents about adaptation to environmental hazards.
- Implications for commercial fisheries as the ocean warms and species shift.