Each year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) opens annual funding opportunities to support fundamental research and scientific user facilities to deliver the scientific discoveries and major scientific tools that transform understanding of nature and advances the energy, economic, and national security of the United States.
The Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program, within DOE’s Office of Science, has recommended funding 19 proposals submitted to university funding announcement DE-FOA-0001845. The announcement targeted observational, data analysis, and/or modeling studies to improve understanding and model representation of specified aerosol processes, high-latitude atmospheric processes, and ice-cloud processes. ASR reviewed 70 single and collaborative applications to the funding opportunity announcement.
“I want to thank the 38 members of the scientific community who contributed their time and expertise to the peer-review process through participation in one or more of the three review panels and/or by submitting mail-in reviews,” says ASR Program Manager Shaima Nasiri.
ASR awardees receive funding from the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), which focuses on understanding complex biological, climatic, and environmental systems for a secure and sustainable future.
After FY18 funding awards are finalized, principal investigators, titles, abstracts, and team members will be added to the ASR projects web page. Following are the 19 principal investigators and their recommended projects:
- Will Cantrell, Michigan Technological University – Laboratory measurements of cloud scavenging of interstitial aerosol in a turbulent environment
- Christine Chiu, Colorado State University – Assessing secondary ice production in continental clouds based on ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) synergistic remote sensing observations
- Don Collins, University of California, Riverside – Direct measurement of small particle growth and aging at the Southern Great Plains (SGP)
- Paul DeMott, Colorado State University – Ice nucleating particles, aerosols, and clouds over the higher latitude Southern Ocean
- Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming – Mixed-phase convective clouds in the polar marine boundary layer
- Adele Igel, University of California, Davis – Dissipation of mixed-phase arctic clouds and its relationship to aerosol properties
- Aaron Kennedy, University of North Dakota – Detection and characteristics of blowing snow at ARM sites
- Jesse Kroll, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Exploring natural aerosol formation from DMS oxidation and implications for aerosol forcing
- Matthew Kumjian, The Pennsylvania State University – Improving parameterization of ice microphysical processes in arctic clouds using a synergistic modeling and observational approach
- Alexander Laskin, Purdue University – Spectro-microscopy studies of atmospheric particles
- Zhanqing Li, University of Maryland – Investigation of the surface coupling of marine clouds and its interactions with aerosols over the Southern Ocean
- Xiaohong Liu, University of Wyoming – Improving global climate model (GCM) predictability of mixed-phase clouds and aerosol interactions at high latitudes with ARM observations
- Gerald Mace, University of Utah – Processes associated with boundary layer cloud ice phase precipitation in the high southern latitudes
- Vaughan Phillips, Lunds University – Organization of diverse mechanisms of secondary ice production among basic convective and stratiform cloud types
- Alexander Ryzhkov, University of Oklahoma – High concentrations of ice: investigations using polarimetric radar observations combined with in situ measurements and cloud modeling
- James Smith, University of California, Irvine – Vertical distribution of boundary layer new particle formation and implications on nanoparticle growth mechanisms
- Allison Steiner, University of Michigan – Biological particles and aerosol-cloud interactions in the Southern Great Plains
- Matthew Sturm, University of Alaska, Fairbanks – How snow drives the seasonal evolution of land and sea surface albedos in the Alaskan high Arctic
- Matthew West, University of Illinois – Multiscale aerosol modeling across space and composition
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This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research as part of the Atmospheric System Research Program.