The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $944,973 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The grant, titled "Pristine Southern Ocean Aerosol and Cloud Processes: Coupling Single-Particle Measurements and Modeling During CAPE-K," aims to advance scientific understanding of aerosol composition, size distributions, marine organics, cloud condensation nuclei, and ice nucleating...
This federal Project Grant award of $943,915.00, granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports fundamental research to study aerosol acidity dynamics and their impact on aerosol-cloud processes. The award will fund a multi-institutional research project led by the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) that deploys instrumentation to measure gas and particle-phase composition in the Baltimore, MD region. Key activities...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $517,678.00 and awarded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports a research project titled "FROM PRECURSORS TO PARTICLES: EVALUATING CHEMICAL FORMATION AND SOURCES OF AEROSOLS IN THE EASTERN NORTH ATLANTIC". The project will be carried out by the University of South Carolina from September 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026. The research aims to advance understanding of the chemical...
This Project Grant award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), supports a research project titled "Discovering Macro- and Micro-Physical Relations in Precipitation Efficiency and Aerosol Wet Scavenging in Warm Clouds Using ARM Observation-Model Data Cubes and Machine Learning." The total award amount is $939,186.00, with a performance period from September 1, 2024, to February 28, 2026. The primary awardee is Colorado...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $635,891.00, was provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The award, titled "INFLUENCE OF URBAN FEATURES ON THE VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CUMULUS CLOUDS DURING TRACER", aims to conduct fundamental scientific research on the impact of urban features on the vertical...
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $792,891 Project Grant to the University of Oklahoma for the project "IMPACTS OF CLOUD-AEROSOL-METEOROLOGY RELATIONS IN MIXED-PHASE CLOUDS ON RADIATIVE FLUXES OVER HIGH LATITUDES." This federal grant, awarded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will fund a research project aimed at advancing scientific understanding of the interactions between clouds, aerosols, and meteorology and their...
The University of Washington received a $697,522 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to elucidate the impacts of shallow and deep convective cloud processing on biogenic VOC-driven particle formation and growth. The project will be conducted from September 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026. The research aims to advance understanding of the complex interactions between atmospheric chemistry, cloud dynamics, and aerosol...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $891,928 to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) supports research to improve the understanding of global aerosol concentrations and composition. Key objectives include: Building a global network of U.S. embassy partners and local stakeholders to enable worldwide data analysis and interpretation of aerosol measurements. Quantifying concentrations and temporal trends of major inorganic ions, black...
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) awarded Aerosol Dynamics Inc., a small R&D company, a $248,592 Project Grant on February 12, 2024. The grant supports the development of innovative particle measurement techniques, specifically focused on "coupled aerodynamic and optical sizing for coarse particles." Aerosol Dynamics Inc. specializes in advanced aerosol measurement instruments and technologies, and has a history of...
This $847,643 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports research on new particle formation, subsequent particle growth, and their contribution to cloud condensation nuclei population in the Southeast U.S. The research will be conducted by The Washington University, a private research institution located in University City, Missouri. The project aims to advance scientific understanding and enable...