The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $409,933 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant will fund research to reframe modeling approaches for multiphase chemistry, specifically for isoprene and related compounds. This work supports the goals of the NSF Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand fundamental knowledge of Earth's integrated system through basic research in...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $474,387 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences on March 1, 2021 to support research titled "Collaborative Research: Organosulfate Multiphase Chemistry and Physicochemical Properties--Oxidation and Sulfate Recycling in Aerosols and Cloud Droplets." This research, to be completed by February 29, 2024, will investigate organosulfate multiphase chemistry and...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $877,929 supports the acquisition of a high-resolution ion mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometer at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. This cutting-edge instrument will enhance a wide range of ongoing atmospheric chemistry and other research projects at UNC, as well as provide new training and educational opportunities for graduate,...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry to support research titled "Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Hybrid Perovskite Amino-Deliquescence and Efflorescence." The three-year award, made on September 1, 2021 and concluding on August 31, 2024, will fund research into the thermodynamic and kinetic processes involved when hybrid perovskite materials deliquesce and effloresce in the...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will conduct collaborative research on projecting insect responses to climate change under a $506,253 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers. The research supports the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen understanding of major problems confronting the nation. Through December 2025, UNC-Chapel Hill researchers will take an integrative...
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 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will conduct collaborative research on combined waves and currents over multi-scale topography from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024 through a $313,734 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences. Under the grant, UNC-Chapel Hill will investigate boundary layer dynamics and parameterization to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system, as outlined in the objectives of the NSF's Geosciences program...
This $250,766 National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award to the University of South Carolina will support a research project entitled "CAREER: CONSTRAINING ATMOSPHERIC NITRATE PRECURSORS AND CHEMISTRY ACROSS THE UNITED STATES (US)." The project aims to improve predictions of atmospheric nitrate formation by combining isotope observations from national monitoring sites with advanced atmospheric chemistry models. This will help quantify...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $797,203 Project Grant under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine). The goal of this 3-year project, with an end date of January 2027, is to better understand how photochemical reactions in the solid or liquid phase of organic compounds affect the key properties of organic aerosol in the atmosphere. The research will focus on secondary organic aerosol (SOA) and/or biomass burning organic aerosol...