The National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) awarded a $675,323 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) to study the role of urban and agricultural landscapes in biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions and their impact on atmospheric ozone and aerosols. The project combines field and laboratory measurements with numerical modeling to quantify BVOC emissions from managed landscapes and their contribution to air pollution and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $190,000 Project Grant to study peroxy radical (RO2) reactivity through functionalized organic iodides. The two-year award runs from March 2021 through February 2023. Under the Geosciences program (CFDA #47.050), the grantee will conduct basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through supporting atmospheric and ocean sciences. Specifically, the grantee will investigate peroxy...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,769 Project Grant to the University of Colorado Boulder's Office of Contracts and Grants from May 2021 through April 2024 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant funds collaborative research on the atmospheric formation and implications of secondary organic aerosol from glycols and glycol ethers. The Geosciences program supports basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to strengthen understanding of the integrated...
Aerodyne Research Inc. was awarded a $224,940 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences to conduct collaborative research studying the role of organic peroxy radicals (RO2) chemistry on the evolution of atmospheric organic carbon. The three-year award, issued on December 1, 2021 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will support basic research at Aerodyne's facility in Billerica, MA through November 30, 2024. The Geosciences program...
This $1,882,550 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the evolution of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation processes in urban atmospheres. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the three-year award to the University of Colorado will investigate the key gas-phase precursors and sources contributing to SOA, and evolution of associated chemistry over the past decade. A six-week field campaign in the Los Angeles area in summer 2022 aims to compare...
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 three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, totaling $660,762, will fund research into atmospheric chlorine oxidation of hydrocarbons emitted from Alaska's North Slope oil fields. The research, to be conducted by the University of Michigan from June 2022 to May 2025, aims to investigate the dominant mechanisms of chlorine oxidation of atmospheric trace gases through three objectives: identifying and quantifying reactive...
This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $195,299 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research characterizing the cloud formation properties of secondary organic aerosol formed from aqueous multiphase chemical processes. The research will be conducted from October 2021 through September 2024 under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research into the integrated Earth system...
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...
This two-year, $190,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences will support investigations into atmospheric chlorine chemistry in the Arctic and its potential to create secondary organic aerosol. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of the integrated Earth system through basic research, this fellowship will examine the low-temperature oxidation of volatile organic compounds by...