This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award in the amount of $702,252 provides funding to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to acquire a time-of-flight aerosol chemical speciation monitor and a scanning mobility particle sizer. These instruments will enable research on urban air pollution, boreal forest fire aerosols, biogenic secondary organic aerosol chemistry, and indoor air quality in Alaska. The award supports work to be conducted from...
The University of New Hampshire will receive $194,683 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MULTI-PHASE SULFUR AND NITROGEN CHEMISTRY IN AIR AND SNOW DURING ALASKAN LAYERED POLLUTION AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS (ALPACA)." Through this funding, researchers at the University of New Hampshire will analyze air and snow samples...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program provides $473,439 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to develop a new Geospace and Middle Atmosphere Lidar (GEOMAL) system. The GEOMAL lidar will be installed at the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska to support a range of innovative research topics in polar geospace and middle atmosphere science. Key capabilities of the new lidar system include measuring atmospheric...
This $745,652 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into atmospheric boundary layers in extreme Alaskan winter conditions from December 2022 through November 2025. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the University of Alaska Fairbanks will investigate boundary layer dynamics and turbulence regimes in cold, dark atmospheres. Researchers will conduct intensive field experiments using surface instruments, remote sensing, and unmanned aircraft to document...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences awarded a $199,997 Project Grant to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Suny ESF, under the NSF Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050) with a period of performance from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024. The grant is supporting a RAPID project to characterize the sources and chemistry of nitrogen oxides, nitrous acid, and particulate nitrate during the AEROMMA...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $533,913 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to continue a long-term atmospheric observing system that tracks changes in Arctic biogeochemistry. The project will measure key carbon and oxygen cycle tracers, including atmospheric CO2 concentration, CO2 isotopic composition, and O2/N2 and Ar/N2 ratios, at three Arctic sites over the award period from...
The University of Alaska Fairbanks received a $120,391 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences on October 1, 2021 to support research under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) through September 30, 2022. The Geosciences program aims to strengthen understanding of Earth's integrated systems through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, this award funds the "EAGER: A Closure Experiment for...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), provides $149,643 to San Diego State University Research Foundation from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The funding will support research to better quantify nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in the North Slope of Alaska.
Specifically, the grantee will measure N2O fluxes using chambers across vegetated and unvegetated areas in the coastal plain to...
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.
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