This is a $690,489.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for a research project focused on characterizing the volatility of organic aerosols (OA) in the atmosphere. The project aims to leverage data from multiple NASA and National Science Foundation (NSF) airborne measurement campaigns to develop improved parameterizations of...
This is a $119,105 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) to conduct research on satellite-based characterization of regional-scale wildfire smoke particles, their evolutionary processes, and associated timescales. The goal is to support climate and air quality modeling. This grant is not associated with a set-aside program. CU is a prominent public research university with a robust portfolio of federal contract...
The Regents of the University of Colorado, through its Office of Contracts and Grants Division, was awarded a $134,998.72 federal grant (Contract #80NSSC20K1642) by the Shared Services Center (an agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to conduct research on the complex relationships between volatile organic compound emissions, primary organic aerosol formation, and secondary organic aerosol formation within smoke plumes. The grant, which does not have a set-aside...
This is a $948,852 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU), doing business as the University of Colorado, for a research project titled "AIRBORNE INVESTIGATION INTO SOURCES, PATHWAYS AND BUDGETS OF URBAN SOA AND SIA.PRODUCTION AND EVOLUTION OVER ASIAN MEGACITIES". The grant is for a research project focused on studying the sources, pathways, and budgets of urban secondary organic aerosols (SOA) and...
This is a $718,755.59 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government research institution, for a 3-year research project under NASA's FIRECHEM solicitation. The project aims to acquire high-quality, fast, sensitive measurements of key atmospheric gases like formaldehyde, methanol, ethylene, and ethane that are important for understanding the impacts of wildfires on regional emissions and...
This is a $134,961 research and training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to The Washington University's Office of Sponsored Research Services Division. The grant supports research to study how biomass burning aerosol optical properties are affected by fuel type, fire phase, and atmospheric processing, in alignment with NASA's FIREX-AQ field study goals. The research will involve constructing and testing a multi-wavelength...
This is a grant awarded by NASA to the University of Colorado in the amount of $752,955.23 to conduct research using an Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS) aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the KORUS-AQ field campaign. The research aims to improve understanding of the sources and chemical evolution of organic aerosols (OA) over the Korean Peninsula, which is critical for improving satellite aerosol retrievals and regional air quality models. The University will use the AMS to...
The University of Colorado was awarded a $249,821 grant from NASA to conduct prescribed fire research to support ecosystem services under the EO14042 RXFIRE program. The grant, awarded without a set-aside designation, will fund the university's research activities from April 1, 2023 through September 30, 2025. As a public research institution, the University of Colorado has a history of providing research and development services to federal agencies including NASA, the Department of Defense, and...
This is a $412,035 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research institute. The grant supports research to improve understanding of the connections between fuels, fire, weather, atmospheric chemistry, and smoke transport, which are critical to assessing impacts on air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and climate. The research involves providing support to guide flight planning for the...
This federal contract award is a $213,196 research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Aerodyne Research Inc. (ARI), a for-profit manufacturer and R&D services provider. The grant funds a collaborative project between ARI and researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder to conduct measurements of ambient aerosol particles using ARI's aerosol mass spectrometry (AMS) instruments. The project aims to improve the calibration of...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, in the amount of $839,559.91. The grant funds research to characterize primary organic aerosol (OA) and inorganic emissions from agricultural and wild fires, and study the evolution of OA and inorganic aerosols downwind of these fires, including secondary OA formation and oxidation. The research will use specialized instrumentation, including a high-resolution aerosol mass spectrometer and an extractive electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer, to provide high time-resolution measurements of bulk and molecular-level OA properties. The objectives are to develop more robust parameterizations of primary fire emissions and systematically understand the factors controlling OA formation, evaporation, and oxidation. This work is part of the NASA FIRECHEM/FIREX collaboration. The award does not have a set-aside designation.