Cooperative Agreement 5830222037

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $303,524 Project Grant to George Mason University, doing business as Mason, for a research project titled "Collaborative Research: ISS: Colloidal Microflyers: Observation and Characterization of (Self-)Thermophoresis through Air in Microgravity." The objective of this 4-year grant is to observe and quantify thermophoresis and self-thermophoresis of microparticles, like silica, alumina, and kaolinite, through...

This $250,771 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs to Colorado State University to conduct collaborative research on the interaction between Antarctic low clouds and natural aerosols. The research aims to improve global climate model simulations over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean by better representing low-level cloud physics, which have significant impacts on ice surface melt and solar energy transmission. The 4-year project will...

This Project Grant award, with a total funding of $284,868, was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) under the Science (CFDA 43.001) federal grant program. The grant aims to execute a balanced science program focused on scientific research of the moon, lunar orbit, Mars, and beyond, advancing discovery in emerging fields, and developing a target-user focused approach to applied programs. The primary awardee, the University of...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $263,928 to fund collaborative research involving novel sampling and isotopic characterization of upper stratospheric to mesospheric photochemistry. Specifically, the award supports experimentation with a zero-carbon emission rocket to obtain air samples from the mesosphere at 37km and 70km altitudes. Four atmospheric samples...

This three-year, $395,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Engineering program will fund research at Portland State University to disentangle inertial particle-turbulence mechanisms in microgravity conditions. The University will perform experimental exploration of single and collective particle interactions with turbulence using the Dryden Drop Tower facility. Objectives include dissociating the effects...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation (CFDA 15.657) program, will implement the Incompatible Insect Technique (IIT) to reduce the population of Culex mosquitoes, the vector for avian malaria, on the island of Kauai. The $1,393,541 award to the University of Hawaii will fund the monitoring and deployment of incompatible male mosquitoes across a 3,000-acre area, with the goal of suppressing the overall Culex...

This three-year, $454,659 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the continued membership of three universities in the Cloud Consortium at CERN. The Consortium will study the chemistry and physics that drive new particle formation and growth in Earth's atmosphere using a 26 cubic meter stainless steel chamber. Over the grant period, research will focus on chemical mechanisms generating extremely low volatility organic compounds that can...

The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $659,177 Project Grant to the Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation to investigate gigantic jets (GJs), their ionospheric effects, and how they couple the troposphere and ionosphere. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award seeks to advance scientific understanding of how cloud-to-ionosphere electrical discharges known as GJs transfer charge between the lower atmosphere and ionosphere. The...

This $411,735 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop specialized germanium detectors and conduct experiments at the TRIUMF accelerator center in Canada. The goal is to search for a hypothesized boson particle in the decay of antimuons by focusing on low-energy signatures. The University of Chicago will receive the funding to build detectors with improved energy resolution of over three orders of magnitude compared to previous large scintillator calorimeters. These...

This $357,868 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research between Mississippi State University and Auburn University to develop a novel method for trapping and controlling dust particles in low-temperature plasmas. The grant funds development of an optical trapping technology to pin down and transport single dust particles anywhere in a plasma device. Multiple laser diagnostic techniques will also be used to measure impacted plasma parameters and aid understanding...