The Pennsylvania State University received a three-year, $915,957 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant supports laboratory studies of vapor grown ice at low and high supersaturations from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. Under this award, Penn State will conduct basic research to strengthen understanding of ice crystal formation and growth processes in the atmosphere. Specifically, the university will operate...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $884,875 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund a 3-year collaborative research project to study how the chemistry of ice nucleating particles impacts the ice nucleation process and subsequent ice crystal growth. The research involves concurrent laboratory experiments and modeling work to characterize ice...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $294,554 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences to conduct research on coronas, hydrogen oxides, and ozone produced in the atmosphere by trees under thunderstorms and by high voltage electrical power transmission lines. The two-year project, awarded January 1, 2022 and concluding December 31, 2023, will investigate atmospheric chemistry phenomena under the NSF's Geosciences program...
Bucknell University was awarded a $175,548 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant falls under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which supports basic research to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system. Through this three-year award beginning September 2021, Bucknell University will conduct collaborative research to examine the role of interactions between organic components on aerosol hygroscopicity. The...
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 Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $233,042 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research titled "SITS: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SOILS ARE SIGNALING SHIFTS IN AGGREGATE LIFE-CYCLES: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR WATER, CARBON AND CLIMATE FEEDBACKS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE?" from January 15, 2021 through December 31, 2024. The Geosciences program supports basic research in the atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences to...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $874,040 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050). The award will support research from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2028 to further understanding of how future Arctic sea ice loss may impact daily weather patterns and extreme cold air outbreak events. A machine learning method and feature tracking algorithm will be applied to coordinated...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences provides $739,184 to Penn State University from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The funding supports research aimed at improving understanding of non-equilibrium surface-layer stress-strain-rate relationships using stationarity analysis techniques and large-eddy simulation. This award advances the goals of the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to strengthen the national scientific...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program totaling $542,110 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027. The grant will fund an interdisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on climate, air quality, and urban systems research. The program will provide 15 students per year with summer-long research internships to work on projects related to climate...
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...