Project Grant 1829686

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $457,177 over 3 years to Arizona State University (ASU) to operate and maintain the Tudor Hill Marine Atmospheric Observatory (THMAO) in Bermuda. The project will: 1) Continue operating the state-of-the-art marine atmospheric sampling and observing facility at Tudor Hill, available to the broader U.S. and international research community; 2) Continue collecting and archiving atmospheric...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory will provide aircraft-derived atmospheric observations to improve weather forecasting models under a $520,500 cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through the award's two-year period, MIT Lincoln Laboratory will extract meteorological data from commercial aircraft equipped with Mode S transponders using airport surveillance radars. This effort aims to increase the number, spatial resolution,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support a two-year time-series study of size-fractionated aerosol samples collected near Bermuda in the North Atlantic Ocean. The $571,384 award to the University of Delaware aims to: 1) analyze temporal variations in the size distribution of aerosol trace elements like iron, 2) quantify lower and upper estimates of potentially bioavailable iron, 3) investigate the chemical...

The National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $480,579 project grant to Florida International University (FIU) to develop an improved beryllium-7 sampling system and use it to estimate upper ocean circulation and biological activity rates in the Sargasso Sea. The project will design and build an affordable and efficient in-situ pumping system to collect beryllium-7 from seawater, which will be tested near Florida and then deployed as part of the Bermuda Atlantic...

The federal Cooperative Agreement award for $499,197, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Weather and Air Quality Research program (CFDA 11.459), aims to quantify the human health impacts of hurricanes and evaluate how accurate and timely hurricane forecasts can mitigate these effects. The primary awardee, the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), will lead this 2-year research project. RSMAS will leverage...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant of $367,399 to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. (UGA Research Foundation) under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). This 3-year project, starting in June 2024, will conduct a time-series study of aerosol trace elements in the North Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda. The key objectives are to: Analyze temporal variations in the size distribution of aerosol iron and other bioactive trace elements, and link these to...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Windborne Systems Inc. $886,375.16 under the Weather and Air Quality Research program (CFDA 11.459) for a cooperative agreement running from August 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023. Windborne will utilize its high-altitude balloon platform to conduct observation campaigns evaluating the impact of atmospheric data collection on forecast skill. The company's long endurance balloons can actively control altitude from sea level to the...

This $662,488 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the "Surveys, Studies, Research, Investigations, Demonstrations, and Special Purpose Activities Relating to the Clean Air Act" (CFDA 66.034) program provides funding to the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH) to expand and enhance their air monitoring activities. Specifically, the grant will enable HDOH to purchase, deploy, and maintain new ambient air monitoring equipment and supplies at 26...

This $786,467 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS). The grant will fund collaborative research to advance understanding of mesoscale air-sea coupling processes and their impact on climate variability over the Southern Ocean. Key research activities will utilize a hierarchy of coupled climate models to explore how regional-scale...

This three-year, $405,234 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund research at the University of Colorado Boulder to develop initialization strategies for the Unified Forecast System coupled atmosphere-ocean numerical forecast model. The goal is to improve probabilistic skill scores for subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts of 2-8 weeks by ensuring initial ensemble perturbations project onto oscillating eigenfunctions of the Koopman and Perron-Frobenius...