Cooperative Agreement 03548HR070

The National Science Foundation's Geosciences program awarded a $299,818 EAGER grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (doing business as Stony Brook University) to investigate a chemical mechanism that could utilize naturally generated chlorine from sea-spray aerosol and iron from Saharan dust to oxidize and remove methane from the atmosphere. The project aims to evaluate the viability of adding chlorine to the atmosphere as a means of mitigating climate change...

This three-year, $925,541 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences aims to develop a better understanding of ambient reactive mercury chemistry, reactions forming, and methods for measurement. The University of Nevada, Reno will collaborate with the University of California Santa Cruz to focus initial data collection on a subset of Clean Air Status and Trends Network and National Atmospheric Deposition Program Mercury Deposition Network...

This $649,388 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research exploring the impact of future land use change on global air quality and nutrient deposition. Specifically, the awardee, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will couple land use output from the Community Land Model simulations, driven by Shared Socioeconomic Pathways scenarios, to the GEOS-Chem global chemical...

This $3,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) aims to enhance the understanding and management of environmental challenges in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The key products and services to be delivered include: Assessing the impact of wildfires and vehicle emissions on snowpack black carbon particulate loading through remote sensing and fieldwork across Tahoe's watersheds....

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded New York University $400,000 under the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Program for a three-year project grant concluding in August 2025. The goal of the research is to develop and validate novel passive sampling designs that can measure a diverse suite of air toxics and contaminants of emerging concern in ambient urban air at low detection limits. Activities include refining polyethylene films for passive air sampling of hazardous...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $201,600 Project Grant to West Virginia University Research Corporation, through the Integrative Activities CFDA program, to conduct a long-term study of forest recovery from nitrogen pollution in the Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virginia. The 5-year research project aims to quantify how Central Appalachian forests respond as nitrogen pollution declines due to the Clean Air Act. The research will couple...

The EPA Region 8 has awarded a $623,977 Inflation Reduction Act Project Grant (CFDA 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act) to the City of Fort Collins, Colorado to conduct ambient air monitoring of pollutants of concern in communities with environmental and health outcome disparities. The project aims to: Leverage local air monitoring expertise to collect, interpret, and share air toxics data that...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to quantitatively assess the influence of salt on the aqueous partitioning of water-soluble organic gases in the atmosphere. The $419,614 project, awarded to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), has the following key objectives: (1) measure the effects of atmospherically relevant inorganic salt mixtures on partitioning of ambient water-soluble organic gases; (2)...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $254,618 to the Colorado School of Mines to conduct research towards understanding the atmospheric fate of per- and poly-fluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS). The research team will quantify thermodynamic properties influencing PFAS phase partitioning, estimate atmospheric lifetimes against hydroxyl radical chemistry through multiple oxidation flow reactor experiments, and develop...

This $670,472 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the CFDA 66.034 - Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act provides funding to the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VT DEC) to enhance its air quality monitoring network. The key products and services funded under this grant include: replacing aging air quality monitoring equipment, obtaining backup equipment,...