This Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050), provides $199,965.00 to Weber State University (WSU) to quantify the impacts of halogen emissions on atmospheric oxidation rates and particulate matter concentrations in the Salt Lake City, Utah region. The two-year project, titled "EMBRACE-AGS-SEED: Quantification of Halogen Emission Impacts on Atmospheric Oxidation Rates in Urban Atmospheres," will involve highly specialized field...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $227,159 Project Grant to the University of Utah to conduct a year-long measurement campaign to quantify mercury speciation and oxidation rates in the atmosphere near a magnesium mining facility in Salt Lake City, Utah. The primary objectives are to: 1) Measure elemental and divalent mercury, related oxidants, and other chemical and meteorological variables; 2) Use a zero-dimensional chemical...
The University of New Hampshire will receive $194,683 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MULTI-PHASE SULFUR AND NITROGEN CHEMISTRY IN AIR AND SNOW DURING ALASKAN LAYERED POLLUTION AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS (ALPACA)." Through this funding, researchers at the University of New Hampshire will analyze air and snow samples...
The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $666,969 Project Grant to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2025 to advance understanding of orographic precipitation processes in continental multi-ridge mountain environments like Utah's Wasatch Range. Specifically, the project aims to investigate snowfall enhancement over...
Utah State University was awarded a three-year, $382,257 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will support collaborative research to quantify watershed dynamics in snow-dominated mountainous karst watersheds using hybrid physically based and deep learning models. The research funded through this award will strengthen understanding of integrated Earth systems through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences as...
The University of California, Merced was awarded a $488,406 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant supports research into the "Atmospheric Lifecycle of Highly Oxygenated Multifunctional Compounds" from August 15, 2021 through July 31, 2024. As part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the research aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric sciences....
The University of Utah will receive $345,496 under a two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences through the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to develop new methods for measuring mercury and methylmercury isotopes in high-salinity, high-dissolved organic matter environments. Current methods cannot be used in these conditions, inhibiting understanding of mercury pathways into wildlife. The University will work with the U.S. Geological Survey to devise...
Utah State University will receive $527,129 from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for a project grant titled "COMBINING PHYSICS AND MACHINE LEARNING-BASED MODELS FOR FULL-ENERGY-RANGE SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLES EVENTS PREDICTION." From July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025, the university will develop new models to predict solar energetic particle events using physics-based and machine learning approaches. Key products and services...
The University of Alabama in Huntsville received a $349,440 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences on August 15, 2021 to complete the project by July 31, 2022. The grant funds the acquisition of instrumentation for real-time molecular level measurement of atmospheric gas- and particle-phase compounds under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA #47.050). This program supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a $613,490 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant supports the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MULTI-PHASE SULFUR AND NITROGEN CHEMISTRY IN AIR AND SNOW DURING ALASKAN LAYERED POLLUTION AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS" project under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The three-year project beginning June 15, 2021 involves basic research to strengthen understanding of integrated earth...