The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $640,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Coastal Carolina University. The grant, awarded on February 1, 2025, supports research to explore the "Kinetics and Reaction Dynamics of Peroxy Radical Unimolecular Decay". The project aims to advance scientific understanding in areas such as physical sciences, energy systems, and environmental research. The research will be conducted...
This federal Project Grant award for $937,036.70, awarded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) on September 1, 2024, aims to improve the understanding of aerosol mixing state and its connection to climate models. The primary awardee, the Regents of the University of Michigan, will lead research efforts to develop experimental tools to characterize the chemical composition, size, and morphology of individual aerosol particles. This work...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $945,000 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Rutgers, The State University to conduct research titled "CONNECTING AEROSOL-RELATED CLOUD BRIGHTNESS TO TURBULENCE USING EPCAPE MEASUREMENTS". The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries related to climate science and atmospheric phenomena. The...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $183,000.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Appalachian State University. The award will support research on "Charging of Dust in the Afterglow of a Magnetized Plasma" over a project period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The research will be conducted through a sub-award to the University of Iowa, where Co-PI Goree will collaborate with PI...
The University of South Carolina received a $608,794 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on March 1, 2022 to fund research exploring reactions of volatile organic compounds in aerosol particles as a source of persistent free radicals. This award, to be completed by February 28, 2027, is being conducted under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The program aims to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of major problems through...
The University of South Carolina received a $147,450 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to conduct collaborative research exploring the dynamics of nitrous oxide in the Southern Benguela upwelling system from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2027. The university will investigate nitrous oxide cycling in the region, estimate sea-to-air fluxes of nitrous oxide to the atmosphere, and examine what drives changes in nitrous...