The University of California, Davis was awarded a five-year, $810,286 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences beginning October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2026. The grant supports research under the NSF's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), which aims to strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences. Specifically, the grant will fund research exploring the role of...
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...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a $613,490 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences. The grant supports the "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MULTI-PHASE SULFUR AND NITROGEN CHEMISTRY IN AIR AND SNOW DURING ALASKAN LAYERED POLLUTION AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS" project under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The three-year project beginning June 15, 2021 involves basic research to strengthen understanding of integrated earth...
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...
This Project Grant award of $464,291 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund research to understand the drivers of spatial variability in low-level stratocumulus clouds and how this variability influences cloud and precipitation processes. The research team at the University of California, Davis will run large eddy simulations using a Lagrangian particle-based microphysics model to investigate four potential sources of microphysical variability:...
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) received a $466,454 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program (CFDA 81.135). The award will support a project titled "Quantifying Nuclear Reactions in Metal Hydrides at Low Energies" from June 2, 2023 through December 1, 2025. UC Davis will conduct research to quantify nuclear reactions in metal hydrides at low...
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 University of California, Davis (UC Davis) was awarded a $2,481,237 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The award supports comprehensive research, development, demonstration, and deployment of innovative technologies to advance energy efficiency, decarbonization, and sustainable solutions across multiple critical sectors, including buildings,...
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) received a $352,884 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports the development of a transformative "Metamaterial-Enhanced Acoustic Phased Array" (MEAPA) system that can provide high-resolution measurements of ice thickness and internal ice structure. This technology will help refine global estimates...
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...