This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $530,956 provides funding from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024 to support research applying graph theory techniques to atmospheric chemical mechanisms. The award is made under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to expand understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the University of Southern California project will develop and assess...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $300,000 in funding to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from November 15, 2024 to October 31, 2027. The award supports the development of machine learning-powered "surrogate models" to increase the computational speed and efficiency of geophysical models used for air pollution and climate research. Key project objectives include: Creating simplified,...
This $399,162 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) aims to develop interpretable, stable, and mass-conserving artificial intelligence (AI) models to improve the computational speed and efficiency of geoscientific models, such as those used for air pollution and climate research. The project will create simpler "surrogate" machine learning models for key components like atmospheric chemistry and wildfire plume rise, allowing for...
This $649,388 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research exploring the impact of future land use change on global air quality and nutrient deposition. Specifically, the awardee, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will couple land use output from the Community Land Model simulations, driven by Shared Socioeconomic Pathways scenarios, to the GEOS-Chem global chemical...
This $616,131 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of observation-based metrics to evaluate global atmospheric chemistry models at the University of California, Irvine through January 2025. As part of its Geosciences program, which supports basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences, the NSF aims to strengthen the scientific enterprise's understanding of the integrated Earth system. Under this award, the university will design, test, and document a...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $100,000 over 2 years to investigate the oxidation chemistry of organic aerosols in the atmosphere and its impact on their optical properties. The research will utilize innovative triple oxygen isotope measurements to elucidate the specific oxidation pathways that contribute to changes in aerosol composition, with the goal of understanding how these compositional changes affect...
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....
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $816,275 will fund research at the University of California, Davis from July 2022 through June 2025 to improve understanding of how photo-oxidants form and influence the chemistry of atmospheric particles under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). Specifically, the award will support measuring photo-oxidant concentrations and reaction kinetics in aerosol liquid water extracts from particles collected in Davis, California. It will also...
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...
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...