Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $853,186 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant is part of NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to enhance understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under the grant, Carnegie Mellon University will conduct research from January 2022 through December 2024 to examine interactions between organic oxidation and acid-base chemistry during particle...
The University of Nebraska was awarded a $248,795 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant supports the collaborative research project "Mesoscale AirMasses with High Theta-E" or MAHTE. The goal of the MAHTE project is to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research investigating atmospheric phenomena. Specifically, the three-year project beginning in August 2021 will fund research...
The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded $571,879 to Michigan Technological University under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. This Project Grant aims to advance understanding of stochastic processes in physical and radar meteorology through the development and application of a statistical analysis method capable of detecting weak signals in climatological data without...
The University of Michigan will receive $331,413 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to develop precipitation, evaporation and temperature records from tropical lake sediments and cave deposits for the last 700,000 years. The grant will support basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through...
The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $390,804 Project Grant to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund research into atmospheric lakes of vapor drifting over the east coast of Africa from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. As part of the Geosciences program's goal of expanding knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research,...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $523,833 will fund research into impacts of atmospheric waves and geomagnetic disturbances on space weather through April 2025. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to increase understanding of the integrated Earth system, the awardee Clemson University will collaborate with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Virginia...
This $226,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the "THERMOSPHERIC ESTIMATION AND CHARACTERIZATION WITH NITRIC OXIDE (TECHNO)" project at Michigan Technological University. The research aims to improve modeling of auroras and understand how the upper atmosphere's circulation changes during magnetic storms by studying the seasonal variability of nitric oxide (NO). Key objectives include investigating links between...
Colorado State University was awarded a $795,202 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The award is part of the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Under the three-year award beginning September 1, 2021, Colorado State University will research the influence of climate change on temperature persistence. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $425,014 project grant to the University of Michigan under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) for research titled "Collaborative Research: Organosulfate Multiphase Chemistry and Physicochemical Properties--Oxidation and Sulfate Recycling in Aerosols and Cloud Droplets." The three-year award beginning March 1, 2021 will support research into the oxidation and sulfate recycling processes within atmospheric aerosols and cloud droplets. The...
The Trustees of Princeton University received a $557,420 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences on August 15, 2021 to support research titled "Meteorological Islands: How the Atmosphere Interacts with Large Individual Patches of Heterogeneity." The award will fund research through July 31, 2024 under the Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050) to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research...