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...
This is a $764,552 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri for a research project titled "HIGH TIME RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS OF AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTION AND ANALYSIS OF AEROSOL PROPERTIES AND PROCESSES FOR ARCSIX." The grant is for a period of 6 years, with a completion date of August 28, 2028. The Washington University, a private research institution, will be conducting this research project, which...
This $494,738 federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Washington University, a private university in St. Louis, Missouri. The grant supports research to address challenges in modeling the spectral optical properties of brown carbon (BrC) aerosol and its influence on satellite retrieval algorithms. The goal is to consolidate observationally-constrained data on BrC aerosol properties, such as complex refractive indices and single scattering...
This federal contract award, valued at $450,000.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The award will fund a research project to investigate the optical properties of brown carbon aerosols emitted from smoldering biomass burning, and how these properties evolve during photochemical aging. The goal is to provide a comprehensive dataset to improve climate models and satellite data retrieval algorithms. The...
This is a $588,965 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to The Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The grant is for a research project titled "Leveraging Aerosol Observations from the Terra, Aqua, Suomi NPP, and JPSS Series Satellite Sensors to Characterize Seasonal and Long-Term Changes in Fine Particulate Matter". The grant has an ultimate completion date of October 28, 2025 and was awarded on October 29, 2021. The grant is not set aside...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $573,628 grant for research to The Washington University, a private university located in St. Louis, Missouri. The research project focuses on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and its impact on air quality, which is a leading environmental risk factor for premature mortality globally. The grant will fund the research activities from June 16, 2021 through June 14, 2025. The Washington University has a track record of conducting...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Iowa for a research project related to the interactions and feedbacks between biomass burning and the water cycle. The $165,872.31 grant will fund a study led by Dr. Wang that uses a mesoscale meteorology-chemistry coupled atmospheric model, satellite data, and fire emission data to quantitatively assess the semi-direct effect of sub-Saharan African smoke on atmospheric lapse rate and...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Duke University Office of Research Administration Division, a private non-profit educational institution, to conduct research on the effects of biomass burning on the chemical and climate system. The $452,564.59 grant will fund a project to enhance NASA's GISS Model E coupled chemistry-climate model, including improvements to the prognostic fire simulator and injection height model. The research involves...
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 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington to conduct research on natural regulators of wildfire characteristics. The potential value of the grant is $135,000.00, and the period of performance runs from September 25, 2019 through December 31, 2024. The award does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Washington is a leading research university that has received numerous prime 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 integrated photoacoustic-nephelometer spectrometer to measure aerosol light absorption and scattering. The findings are intended to reduce uncertainties in radiative forcing from wildfire aerosol emissions and inform future laboratory experiments. This grant does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded directly to The Washington University on September 1, 2018, with a completion date of August 31, 2021.