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CEDAR: Experimental Study of the Role of Secondary Electron Emission in Atmospheric Electricity
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jeremy A Riousset($441,951), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Secondary Electron Emission, Electric Discharges, Electron Avalanche, Atmospheric, Coefficient, Conditions, Does, Glow, Initiation, Ionization, Jets, Lightning, Mars, Planetary, Process.

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Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Sources of Gravity Waves in the Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: AERONOMY

1. Brentha Thurairajah($113,466), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Chihoko Cullens($368,409), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Lower Atmospheric Influences, Space Weather Forecast, Gravity Waves, Gw Sources, Large-scale Gws, Observed Large-scale, Planetary Waves, Relative Contributions, Affect, Aims, Atmosphere, Circulations, Coupling, Interaction, Ionospheric, Large-scale, Observations, Processes, Pws, Satellite, Simulations, Thermosphere, Tides.

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Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Interhemispheric Asymmetry of the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly in the American Sector
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: AERONOMY

1. Qingyu Zhu($359,725), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
2. Cesar E Valladares($87,361), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Lower Atmospheric, Post-sunset Eia, Solar Cycles, Additionally, Communication, Electron, Equator, Formation, GNSS, IHA, Investigate, Mechanisms, Post-sunset, SSW, Scintillation, Sector, Significantly.

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Tracking Electromagnetic Power Line Emissions and Harmonic Radiation from the Ground through Realistic, Inhomogeneous Three Dimensions (3-D) Ionospheric Conditions
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jamesina J Simpson($85,169), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Ples And Plhr, Power Line Emissions, Ples Plhr, Power Grids, Propagation Mechanism, Complex, Electromagnetic, Frequency, Harmonic, Ionosphere, Measured, Mode, Plasma, Propagate, Radiation, Robust, Satellites, Varying.

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STEVE Community Workshop: Expanding our Understanding on the Physics of Extreme Forcing in the Subauroral Region; Fairbanks, Alaska; Spring 2025
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Philip J Erickson($49,456), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Third Steve Workshop, Auroral Emissions, Particle Precipitation, Picket Fence, Discuss, Formation, Has, Mechanisms, Observations, Occurrence, Optical, Phenomenon, Referred, Region, Regions.

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Collaborative Research: Understanding the Quiet Time Thermospheric Composition Contribution to Ionospheric Day-to-Day Variability over the American Continent
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Shun-Rong Zhang($169,918), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. xuguang cai($158,689), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Ionosphere And Thermosphere, Quiet Time Tec, Quiet Time Thermosphere, Ionosphere Day-to-day, Space Physics, Space Weather, Tec Day-to-day, on2 Day-to-day, Additionally, Aims, Analyses, Characterize, Day-to-day, Ground-based, Investigate, Observations, Simulations, WACCM-X, ON.

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Collaborative Research: An Observational Network to Enable Investigations of Gravity-Wave and Storm-Time Impacts on the Mid-Latitude Thermosphere-Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Asti Bhatt($147,756), SRI International, Menlo Park
2. Jonathan J Makela($100,054), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Brian J Harding($46,627), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Operate And Maintain, Red And Green-line, Create Higher-level, Fabry-perot Interferometers, Mango Network, Upper Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Aurora, Collect, Earth’s, Fabry-perot, Forcing, Fpis, Higher-level, Imagers, Interface, Investigations, Ionosphere, Lower, Mid-latitude, NSF, Observations, Observes, Products, Public, Red-, Relative, Share, Thermospheric, Winds.

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Collaborative Research: Characterizing the Quiet Time Equatorial Plasma Bubbles
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Brett A McCuen($108,120), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
2. Keith Groves($256,279), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Equatorial Plasma Bubbles, Quiet Time Epbs, Magnetically Quiet, Radio Signal, Vertical Drift, Advance, Applications, Bottom, Characterize, Driving, Forcing, GNSS, Instruments, National, Observations, Presence, SQ, Scintillation, Seeding, Various.

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Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Effects of Ionospheric Density Irregularities on High-Frequency Radio Wave Propagation
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Nathaniel A Frissell($119,927), University of Scranton, Scranton
2. Eun-Hwa Kim($333,016), Andrews University, Berrien Springs
3. Simon Wing($141,789), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Ground Hf Communications, Hf Radio Waves, Ionospheric Density Fluctuations, Small-scale Density Irregularities, Solar And Geomagnetic, Amateur Radio, Geomagnetic Activities, Small-scale Density, Space Weather, Waves Propagate, Code, Conditions, Effect, Emergency, Investigate, Ionosphere, Petra-m, Profile, Propagation, Various.

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Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Short Wave Infrared Imaging of the Meinel 0-0 Auroral and the Metastable Helium 1083 nm Airglow Emissions for Auroral Physics and Aeronomy Studies
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. John W Meriwether($129,863), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
2. Matthew D Zettergren($294,330), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
3. Xian Lu($54,401), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Alfvén Waves, Atmospheric Drag, Auroral Arcs, Exospheric Density, Poker Flat, Alfvénic, Brightness, Dominant, Dynamics, Emissions, Field, Geomagnetic, Has, Instruments, Interactions, Investigate, Magnetosphere-ionosphere, Metastable, Nm, Observations, Plan, SQ, SWIR, Time.

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CEDAR: Thermospheric Dynamics and Temperature Measurements from the Auroral Boundary to the Magnetic Equator
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Eframir Franco-Diaz($359,936), Computational Physics Inc, Springfield
Key terms: Radio Wave Propagation, Winds And Temperatures, Disrupt Radio, Neutral Thermosphere, Altitude, Atmospheric, Brazil, Climatological, Conditions, Critical, Density, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Less, MA, Midlatitude, Near, Nightly, Peak, Plasma, Real-time, Region, Site, Southern, Westford, Women.

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EAGER: Exploiting Smartphone Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Signals for Ionospheric Science
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Joshua Semeter($99,637), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Adaptive Ionospheric, Citizen Scientists, Disrupt Radio-frequency, Citizens, Concept, Density, Dual-frequency, Eclipse, Formed, GPS, Geospace, Has, Ionosphere, Irregularities, Measure, Networks, Observatory, Plasma, Proof-of-concept, Radio-frequency, Region, Seeks, Sensing, Smartphones, Solar, TEC.

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CEDAR: Coupling of Meteoroid Input to Thermospheric Processes Using Simulations and High-Power Large-Aperture (HPLA) Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Sigrid Elschot($505,530), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Mass Deposition, Mlt Region, Neutral Density, Upper Atmosphere, Upper Atmospheric, Analysis, Create, Development, Effects, Extraterrestrial, Formed, Lead, Metallic, Meteor, Meteoroids, Meteors, Model, Modeling, Physics, Plasma, Radar, Spacecraft.

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CEDAR: Characterization of Streamer-based Compact Intracloud Discharges (CIDs, aka NBEs)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Vladimir A Rakov($167,962), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Atmosphere, Atmospheric, CID, Cids, Cloud, Discovered, Electric, Graduate, Lightning, Physics, Serve.

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RAPID: Reprocessing the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Ions, Electrons, Scintillation (DMSP SSIES-3) Ionospheric Data to Level-2 Quality
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Marc R Hairston($99,290), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Available Thermal Plasma, Madrigal And Nasa, Operational Dmsp Spacecraft, Publicly Available Thermal, Quality And Contained, Thermal Plasma Observations, Nasa Spdf, Nsf-funded Madrigal, Public Distribution, Solar Maximum, Ssies-3 Package, Amounts, Centers, Composition, Continue, Delivered, Densities, Fill, Flows, Gap, Geomagnetic, Ionospheric, Level-, Nsf-funded, Period, Poor-quality, RAPID, Reprocessed, Storms, Temperatures.

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Collaborative Research: Evolution of the Global Total Electron Contents (TEC) during Solar Flares
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Yang Chen($83,511), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Zihan Wang($112,514), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Euv Late Phase, Coronal Dimming, Global Navigation, Global Tec, Military Communication, Solar Flares, Upper Atmosphere, Aviation, Carry, Flare-to-flare, Intense, Investigate, ML, Machine, Maritime, Models, Numerical, Observations, Phases, Plans, Predict.

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Thermospheric Circulation Using Mesoscale-Resolving Whole Atmosphere Model and Satellite Observations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jack C Wang($292,835), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Atmosphere Model, Residual Circulation, Upper Atmosphere, Compositions, Distribution, Driving, Examine, Has, Interactions, Investigate, Lower-thermospheric, Mechanisms, Multi-scale, Objective, Observed, Processes, Thermosphere, Thermospheric, Vertical, Waves.

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Characterizing the Effect of Substorms on the Equatorial Electrojet
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Juan Rodriguez-Zuluaga($120,859), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Imf Conditions, Low Latitudes, Magnetic Field, Current, EEJ, Electric, Geomagnetic, JRO, Perturbations, Substorm, Substorms, Time.

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Collaborative Research: Four-dimensional Impacts of Strong Polar Vortices on the Thermosphere-Ionosphere System
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Larisa P Goncharenko($56,865), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Luis A Navarro Dominguez($170,642), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Ionospheric Electron, Neutral Winds, Polar Vortex, Strong Polar, Thermospheric Composition, Vortex Strength, Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Midlatitudes, Modeling, Observations, Signals, TEC, Thermosphere, Weak.

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Innovations in Open Science (IOS) Planning Workshop: Advancing Open Science in Heliophysics and Space Weather Modeling--Challenges and Resolutions; College Park, MD; June 3-7, 2024
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jia Yue($50,000), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Heliophysics And Space, Space Physics, Space Weather, Access, Conference, Infrastructure, Model, Modeling, Models, Operational, Overall, Public, Simulation, Topics, Workshop.

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Collaborative Research: Ionospheric Density Response to American Solar Eclipses Using Coordinated Radio Observations with Modeling Support
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Shibaji Chakraborty($234,794), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Sebastijan Mrak($166,193), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
3. Naomi Maruyama($135,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
4. Shibaji Chakraborty($210,153), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Ionospheric Density, Relative Importance, Solar Eclipse, Solar Eclipses, Space Weather, Communication, Education, F-region, HF, Ionosphere, Observations, Quantify, Reduced, Transport.

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Thermospheric Estimation and CHaracterization with Nitric Oxide (TECHNO)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Aaron J Ridley($226,999), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Discreet Aurora, Magnetic Storms, Nitric Oxide, Polar Vortex, Upper Atmosphere, Affect, Circulation, Density, Diffuse, Energy, GITM, Increased, Investigate, Methodology, Model, Satellite, TECHNO, Temperature, Uncertainties.

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Collaborative Research: Remote Sensing of the Lower Ionosphere during 2024 Solar Eclipse: Revealing the Spatial and Temporal Scales of Ionization and Recombination
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Oleksiy Agapitov($244,218), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Vijay Harid($238,190), University of Colorado at Denver, Aurora
Key terms: Low Frequency Radio, Powerful Vlf Transmitter, Lower Ionosphere, Solar Eclipse, Berkeley, Denver, Minutes, Observations, Observe, Opportunity, Processes, Rare, Sun, Totality.

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Relativistic Runaway Discharges in the Earth's Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Victor Pasko($779,342), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Electric Field, Activity, Avalanche, Electrons, Energy, Generated, Knowledge, Lightning, Main, Multiplication, Observations, Phenomena, Process, Processes, Radiated, Radiation, Referred, Sources, Tgfs, X-rays.

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Solar Eclipse Workshop: Observations of April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse and Community Discussion of Multi-Scale Coupling in Geospace Environment; Arlington, Texas; April 8-10, 2024
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. LEVENT GURDEMIR($49,999), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: K-12 Students, Safety Goggles, Solar Eclipse, Solar Eclipses, Activities, April, Earth’s, Educational, Instruments, Investigate, Ionosphere-thermosphere, Outreach, Planned, Public, Telescopes, Totality, UTA, Workshop.

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Travel Grant: Conference Support for the Python in Heliophysics Community (PyHC) 2024 Summer School; Boulder, Colorado; May 20-24, 2024
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Julie Barnum($50,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Open-source Python, Pyhc Software, Space Physics, Summer School, Attendees, Developers, Heliophysics, OSS, Open-source, Package, Packages, Participants, Platform, Public, Session.

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Solar Eclipse-Induced Changes in the Ozone Layer Observed with UV/VIS (UltraViolet–VISible Spectroscopy) Radiometer
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Germar H Bernhard($79,074), Biospherical Instruments Inc, San Diego
Key terms: Total Solar Eclipse, Direct-sun Observations, Distinct Instruments, Earth’s Surface, Moon’s Shadow, Ozone Layer, Solar Eclipses, Spectral Irradiance, Upper Atmosphere, Additional, April, Artifacts, Calculated, Direct-sun, Earth’s, Effects, Established, Global, Has, International, Mexico, Minutes, Moon’s, Nm, Path, Photon, Planet, Radiation, Radiometer, Resolve, TOC, Totality, Transfer, Travels, UV, Ultraviolet.

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Collaborative Research: Laboratory Measurements of Oxygen (O) and Nitrogen (N2) Ultraviolet (UV) Cross Sections by Particle Impact for Remote Sensing of Thermosphere O/N2 Variation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Joseph S Evans($89,974), Computational Physics Inc, Springfield
2. Saurav Aryal($317,945), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Column Density Ratio, Emission Cross Section, On2 Column Density, Optically Forbidden Emissions, Remote Sensing Techniques, 125-250 Nm, Accurate Determination, Density Ratio, Earth’s Thermosphere-ionosphere, N2 Lyman-birge-hopfield, Uv Observations, Accurately, Band, Bands, Composition, Contributions, Dayglow, Derived, Earth’s, FUV, GOLD, Imaging, LBH, Lyman-birge-hopfield, Mission, OI, QEUV, Satellite-based, Satellites, Temperature, Thermosphere-ionosphere, Ultraviolet.

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Collaborative Research: Resolving Uncertainty in Past Delta-14C Spikes from Tree Rings
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Amy E Hessl($202,212), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
2. Mariah Carbone($429,227), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
3. Rachael J Filwett($185,538), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Safeguarding Space-based Infrastructure, Carbon Allocated, Extreme Solar, Harmful Cosmic, Past 14c, Safeguarding Space-based, Space-based Infrastructure, Store Carbon, Tree Rings, Upper Limit, Age, CE, Conifers, Create, Critical, Deciduous, Estimates, Experiments, Forecasting, Global, Latitude, Magnitude, Modern, Particle, Program, Seps, Severe, Sites, Sources, Species, Spikes, Timing, Uncertainty, Wood, ΔC.

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GEM: Radial Transport Processes at Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Peter A Delamere($366,410), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Jupiter And Saturn, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Flux, Magnetospheric Physics, Solar Wind, Basic, Compare, Conditions, Dynamics, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheres, Nature, Plasma, Processes, Space, Structure, Transport.

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AGS-CIF: Mobile Rapid Scanning Radar (RaXPol) for Enhancing Weather Radar Research and Hands-on Education
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Pierre Kirstetter($262,308), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Ability, CIF, Enhance, Mobile, Precipitation, Program, Radar, Raxpol, Sensitivity, Tornadoes.

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How Does the Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones Impact Tornadoes and Supercells?
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Benjamin A Schenkel($698,967), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Extratropical Transition Impacts, Transition Impacts Tornadoes, Environmental Traits, Landfalling Hurricanes, Large-scale Environmental, Environments, Factors, Knowledge, Large-scale, Lead, Multiple, Soundings, Supercell, Supercells, Thunderstorms.

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Land-Atmosphere Interactions in Flash Drought Development
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Tirthankar Roy($582,109), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Flash Drought Development, Flash Droughts, Land Surface, Land-atmosphere Interactions, Rapid Intensification, Atmospheric, Conditions, Conventional, Feedback, Land-atmosphere, Multiple, Play.

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SHINE: Statistical Birth Conditions of Coronal Hole Jets Using the Legacy Dunn Solar Telescope
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Juie Shetye($568,185), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Coronal Holes, DST, Imaging, Jets, Obtained, Regions, Solar, Students.

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Tropical Convection over Oceans
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Zeljka Stone($655,738), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Convective Rainfall, Mass Flux, Analysis, Atmospheric, Campaign, Classification, Conditions, Convection, Develops, Field, Heavy, Humidity, Idealized, Model, Pacific, Pis, Rains, School, Showers, Temperature, Thermodynamic, Variables, Weather.

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Probing the roles of reactive iodine and bromine in Arctic halogen chemistry
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. William R Simpson($297,497), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic Observing Network, Iodine And Bromine, Ozone Depletion Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Depletion Chemistry, Iodine Chemistry, Previously Assumed, Reactive Halogen, Buoy, Buoys, Chemical, Critical, Focus, Observations, Spectroscopy, Synergies.

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Atmospheric Particle Nucleation and Growth Under Conditions Found in the Free Troposphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Neil M Donahue($356,844), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Formation And Growth, Low Volatility, Organic Compounds, Reactive Uptake, Upper Troposphere, Climate, Condensation, Effort, Inorganic, Interactions, Nucleation, Particle, Particles, Partitioning, Semi-volatile, Vapors.

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RAPID: Identification and Measurement of Emissions from the Biolab Incident Impacting the Atlanta Urban Area
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lewis G Huey($86,340), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Chlorine And Bromine, Hnco And Ch2n2, Bromine Containing, CHN, Chemical, Chemicals, Compounds, Emissions, Plumes, Publication, Release, Site, Species, Surrounding.

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Collaborative Research: The Role of Organic-Inorganic Interactions in the Formation, Fate, and Transport of Atmospheric Reactive Carbon
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ann Marie G Carlton($709,720), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Christopher Hennigan($419,614), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry Field, Chemistry Field Campaign, Water-soluble Organic Gases, Water-soluble Organic, Aerosols, Effects, Graduate, Laboratory, Partitioning, Reanalysis, Salt, Salting.

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International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) International Project Office (IPO)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Helen L DeWitt($579,250), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Global Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Scientists, Knowledge Gaps, Activities, Build, Creating, IGAC, IPO, International, Issues, Regional.

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MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a High-Resolution Ion Mobility Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer to Advance Understanding of Atmospheric Multiphase Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Zhenfa Zhang($1,133,485), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Biogenic And Anthropogenic, Anthropogenic Emissions, Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Gas, North Carolina, Teachers Programs, Wide Range, Acquisition, Aerosol, Aging, Experiences, Instrument, International, K-, Leading, Mass, Multiphase, Opportunities, Organic, Outreach, Visits.

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Global Quantification of Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Composition and Sources Using Ground-Based Measurements
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Albert A Presto($891,928), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Models And Satellite, Aerosol Concentrations, Air Quality, Filter Tapes, Global Network, Global North, Global South, Satellite Products, Analysis, BAM, Collected, Compare, Composition, Dataset, Datasets, Embassy, Enable, Globe, Ground-based, Profiles, Regions, Sources, Stakeholders, Techniques, Temporal, Under-sampled, Worldwide.

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An Interdisciplinary Workshop Reducing Uncertainty in Soluble aerosol Trace Element Deposition (RUSTED); Goa, India; November 10-14, 2024
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nicholas Meskhidze($20,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Iron Biogeochemical, Ocean Biogeochemistry, Atmospheric, Carbon, Climate, Critical, Deposition, Focus, Information, International, Meeting, Models, Phd, Processes, Solubility, Workshop.

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Urban Greening and Air Quality
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Celia Faiola($480,588), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Rates And Composition, Air Pollutants, Dry Deposition, Emission Rates, Leaf Resistance, Los Angeles, Particle Deposition, Urban Trees, Areasthis, Atmospheric, Emissions, Organic, Parks, Range, Secondary, Sink.

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Measurements and Modeling of Gas and Aerosol Products of Reactions of Monoterpenes with Hydroxyl Radicals (OH) over a Range of Oxidation Conditions
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Paul J Ziemann($596,226), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Mechanisms And Models, Organic Compounds, Aerosol, Analysis, Atmospheric, Chemical, Climate, Composition, Effects, Environmental, Formed, Gases, Human, Oxidation, Products, Reactions, Visibility.

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MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Vocus Mass Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chemistry Research
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Carrie A McDonough($783,700), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Organic Peroxy Radicals, Organic Compounds, Vocus Ptr-ms, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Enable, Has, Instrument, MRI, Mass, Measure, PTR-MS, Species.

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RAPID: Ongoing Impacts of the Extraordinary Hunga Tonga Volcanic Eruption on the Stratosphere
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. David Wilmouth($199,479), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Enhanced Water Vapor, Injected Water Vapor, Short And Long-term, Chemical Composition, Hthh Eruption, Ozone Layer, Volcanic Eruptions, Chemistry, Critical, Damage, Distribution, Dynamics, Earth’s, Evolution, Has, Information, Mechanisms, Potential, RAPID, Stratosphere, Stratospheric, Time, Was.

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RAPID: Understanding the Ground Ozone Production Drivers by Combining Formaldehyde and Nitrogen Dioxide Measurements during Salt Lake City Summer Ozone Study (SLC-SOS)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jiajue Chai($139,995), Wayne State University, Detroit
Key terms: O3 Formation Regime, Salt Lake City, Summertime O3 Formation, Model Simulations, Ozone Formation, Concentrations, Nitrogen, Region, SLC-SOS.

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Determining the Coagulation Sink Rate for Sub-10 nm Atmospheric Particles
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Hui Ouyang($350,018), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: 50-100 Nanometer Cloud, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Coagulation Sink Rates, Nanometer Cloud Condensation, Coagulation Rates, Graduate Students, Van Der, Atmospheric, Experience, Fields, Image, Investigation, K-, Knowledge, Laboratory, Model, Sub-, Uncertainties, Undergraduate.

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Travel Grant: 2024 Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere Gordon Research Conference and Seminar; Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain; June 8-14, 2024
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Karena A McKinney($30,480), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Conference And Seminar, Atmosphere Conference, Biogenic Hydrocarbons, Atmospheric, Biological, Ecological, Gordon, June, Mechanisms, Meeting, Ozone, Quality, Released, Secondary, Th.

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CAREER: Timely Estimation of Nitrogen Oxides Emissions for Improved Monitoring and Simulation of Atmospheric Chemical Processes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kang Sun($141,972), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Air Pollution, Observation-based Framework, Satellite Observations, Atmospheric, Climate, Emission, Emissions, Has, New-generation, Nitrogen, Nox, Observation-based, Satellite-based, Species.

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Quantifying Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Nitrogen Oxides Emissions and Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Wendell W Walters($422,847), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Chemistry And Reactive, Reactive Nitrogen Emissions, Ice Core, Mid-latitude Glacier, Nox Oxidation, Oxidation Chemistry, Stable Isotopes, Activities, Atmospheric, Climate, Influence, Mid-latitude, Natural, Nitrate.

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Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Emissions from Managed Landscapes and Their Contribution to Atmospheric Ozone and Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Saewung Kim($675,323), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Land Management Practices, Oxidant And Aerosol, Urban And Agricultural, Agricultural Landscapes, Air Quality, Bvoc Emissions, Graduate Student, Managed Landscapes, Management Practices, Undergraduate Students, Canopy, Ecosystem, MEGAN, Model, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Postdoctoral, Primary, Processes, Sources.

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Collaborative Research: A Novel Laboratory Approach for Exploring Contact Ice Nucleation
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sarah Brooks($467,067), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Margaret A Tolbert($463,374), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Contact Nucleation, Ice Nucleation, Focus, INP, Mechanisms, Nucleating, Represent, Students.

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AGS-FIRP Track 1: Solar Eclipse Effects on Weather and Aerial Fauna (SEEWAF)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kevin R Knupp($23,594), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Aerial Fauna, Boundary Layer, Gain Experience, Profiling Sites, Solar Radiation, Balloon, Graduate, Levels, MAX, Mapnet, Mobile, Observations, Profiles, Radar, School, Students, Temperature, Wind.

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The role of indoor dust in modulating indoor air chemistry: assessing air-dust heterogeneous transformations and human exposures
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jenna Ditto($452,993), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Fresh And Aged, Complex Mixtures, Indoor Air, Indoor Dust, Organic Compounds, Chemical, Chemistry, Dust-bound, Exposure, Infiltrate, Interactions, Products, Students.

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CAREER: Origin and Evolution of the Light Absorption of Biomass Burning Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Elijah G Schnitzler($141,290), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Key terms: Biomass Burning Aerosol, Air Quality, Fuel Species, Light Absorption, Organic Aerosol, Aging, Atmospheric, BBOA, Carbon, Chemical, Climate, Involves, Origin, Processes, Processing, SGP, Tasks, Wide.

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Travel Grant: Enabling Students and Early-Career Scientists to Attend the Eleventh (11th) International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC11); Saint Louis, Missouri; June 11-14, 2024
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Randall V Martin($30,000), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: 11th International Geos-chem, International Geos-chem Meeting, 11th International, Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition, Early-career Scientists, Geos-chem Meeting, International Geos-chem, Chemical, Climate, Coupled, Early-career, Global, Held, IGC, Model, Modeling, Postdocs, Students, Travel.

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EAGER: Airborne Investigation of the Chlorine Mediated Mineral Dust Sea Spray Aerosol (MDSA) Mechanism in the Western Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. John E Mak($299,818), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Hydrogen Chloride, Remove Methane, Aerosol, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Carbon, Chlorine, Climate, Has, Iron, Mechanism, Mitigating, Potential, Viability.

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Oxidation Pathways and Radicals at the Gas-Particle Interface Using Surface-Sensitive Techniques
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lisa M Wingen($772,000), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Organic Particle, Aerosol, Approaches, Determination, Direct, EASI-MS, Gap, MAI-MS, Oxidation, Particles, Processes, Products, Radical, Techniques, Via.

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Collaborative Research: Atmospheric Nucleation of Complex Mixtures Emitted from Marine Planktonic Communities
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Stephen Archer($304,365), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
2. Coty N Jen($932,280), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Emission Profiles, Marine Planktonic, Nucleation Potential, Nucleation Potentials, Nucleation Rates, Nucleation Reactions, Particle Nucleation, Climate, Clouds, Emissions, Gulf, Maine, Oceans, Particles, Phytoplankton, Predicting, Regions, Various.

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AGS-FIRP Track 1: Enhancing Undergraduate Education of the Planetary Boundary Layer during the 2024 Solar Eclipse
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Leanne N Blind-Doskocil($49,818), Valparaiso University, Valparaiso
Key terms: Total Solar Eclipse, Meteorology Students, Sparc Facility, Atmospheric, Compared, Dynamics, Educational, Facilities, Outreach, PBL, Transition, Undergraduate, Valparaiso.

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Effect of Condensed-Phase Photochemistry on Absorption Coefficients and Phase State of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol Particles
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sergey Nizkorodov($797,203), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Biomass Burning Organic, Burning Organic Aerosol, Secondary Organic Aerosol, Soa And Bboa, Aqueous Environment, Cloud Droplets, Organic Particles, Photochemical Reactions, Compounds, Directly, Liquid, Phase, Processes, Students.

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Evaluating the Atmospheric Dynamics of Nitrate and Sulfate in Southern New England in Response to Emission Regulations
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Wendell W Walters($56,667), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Nitrate And Sulfate, Atmospheric Chemistry, Particulate Nitrate, Climate, Emission, Fields, Gases, Inform, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Various.

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AGS-FIRP Track 3: Salt Lake City Summer Ozone Study (SLC-SOS)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Emma L Yates($1,458,444), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Salt Lake City, Field Campaign, Ozone Pollution, Wasatch Front, Focused, Formation.

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The Science Policy Colloquium: A Leadership Development Program to Equip Scientists for Societal Engagement
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Paul Higgins($131,688), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: Students And Early-career, Weather And Climate, Early-career Scientists, Policy Decisions, Policy Makers, Colloquium, Interaction, Participants, Participation, Process, Stakeholders.

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Aerosol Impacts on Cloud Microphysics, Charge Structures, and Precipitation Relevant to Sea Breeze Convection
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Renyi Zhang($551,788), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Gulf Coast Region, Sea Breeze Convection, Sea Breeze Thunderstorm, Texas Gulf Coast, Aerosols Derived, Atmospheric Models, Accurate, Analysis, CCN, Charge, Clean, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Conditions, Convective, Dccs, Development, Effects, Elevated, Evolution, Experiment, Flooding, Focus, Future, Galveston, HLMA, Highly, Houston, Humidity, INP, Ice, Importance, Industrial, Interactions, Levels, Lightning, Mechanisms, Media, Meteorological, Microphysical, Observation, Polluted, Precipitation, Processes, Radar, Season, Sources, Students, Thunderstorms, Urban, Various, Vulnerable, Warm, Weather.

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NSF-SNSF: Variability of Andean Hydroclimate Extremes - their Precursors, Predictability and Interactions with Large-Scale Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2025; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Mathias Vuille($400,000), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Central Andes, Crop Yields, Future Climate, Agriculture, Collaboration, Contribute, Drought, Expertise, Extreme, Forecasting, Hence, International, Local, Model, Modeling, Mountain, Region, Simulate, Student.

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EMBRACE-AGS-Seed: Network Science-Based Framework for Analysis and Modeling of Climate Systems
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Nishant Malik($199,885), Rochester Institute of Tech, Rochester
Key terms: Atlantic Meridional Overturning, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Climate Indices, Interacting Phenomena, Algorithms, Allow, Complex, Effects, Global, Influence, Large-scale, Network, Oscillation, Potential, Society, Students, Tipping, Tools.

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Conference: Compounding and Cascading Climate Risks to US Frontline Communities; Portland, Oregon; Spring 2025
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Colin Raymond($85,377), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Climate Hazards, Conference, Discuss, Participants, Risks, Stakeholders.

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EMBRACE-AGS-Seed: Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning to Generate Ensembles of Regional Climate Projections
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Alex Haberlie($199,316), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
Key terms: Intelligence And Machine, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced, Aims, Climate, Computational, Extreme, Models, Modern, Rainfall, Resources, Simulating, Students.

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Evaluating a Constrained Cloud Response to Varying Atmospheric Climate and Chemical States
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Timothy J Garrett($941,193), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Alpha And Beta, Cloud Size Distribution, Cloud Properties, Theory Predicts, Air, Amount, Atmospheric, Climate, Clouds, Conditions, Contribution, Energy, Extent, Future, Greenhouse, Invariance, Invariant, Issue, Measured, Pacific, Parameters, Particular, Perimeter, Pis, Power, Satellite, Seeks, Subsequent, Values, Warming.

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Collaborative Research: Local and Global Perspectives of Storm Track Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kamazima M Lwiza($424,952), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Sukyoung Lee($470,539), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Available Potential Energy, Extratropical Storm Track, Mean Available Potential, Planetary Stationary Waves, Stationary Wave Activity, Storm Track Activity, Zonal Mean Available, Causal Relationships, Climate Models, Experience Offered, Latent Heating, Tropical Heating, Carried, Explore, Explored, Gap, Global, Links, Local, Mechanisms, Midlatitudes, Observations, Principal, Remains, Represented, Responsible, School, Seasonal, Share, Students, Subseasonal, York.

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CAREER: Attributing Extreme Weather to Stratospheric Variability Using Ensemble Forecasts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Peter Hitchcock($1,010,185), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Rare-event Sampling Algorithm, Model Simulations, Planetary Waves, Rapid Amplification, Rare-event Sampling, Atmospheric, Attribution, CAO, Caos, Challenge, Climate, Cold, Cornell, Course, Development, Ensemble, Extent, Extreme, Factors, Forecasts, Framework, Has, Increased, Intended, Leads, Likelihood, Logic, Occurred, Odds, Probabilistic, Produce, SSW, Severity, Ssws, Students, Subseasonal, Temperatures, Thinking, Time, Timescale, Weather.

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CAREER: Understanding Changes in Summertime Continental Temperature Extremes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Karen McKinnon($944,511), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Heat Waves, Hottest Days, Temperature Extremes, Activity, Analysis, Average, Challenge, Climate, Drying, Educational, Extent, Faster, Mechanisms, Model, Module, Output, Size, Soil, Statistical, Students, Surface, Th, Trends, Warming, Workshop.

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Effect of Background Atmospheric Conditions on Convectively Coupled Kelvin Wave Phase Speed
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paul E Roundy($525,359), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Eddy Mean Flow, Kelvin Wave Phase, Mean Flow Interactions, Wave Phase Speed, Background Conditions, Deep Convection, Global Circulation, Global Models, Kelvin Waves, Phase Speeds, Static Stability, Advection, Based, Benchmarks, Climate, Coupled, Disturbances, ENSO, Filtered, Gridded, Has, MJO, Moist, Moisture, OLR, Principal, Processes, Rainfall, Satellite, Select, Synoptic, Time, Tropics, Weather, Wind.

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From Surface Warming to Stratospheric Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Peter Hitchcock($538,591), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Rising Motions, Tropical Ssts, Water Vapor, Convection, Convective, Corggle, Entering, Gateway, Idealized, Induce, Layer, Mechanism, Model, Models, Ozone, Simulations, Stratosphere, Summer, Surface, TTL, Temperature, Theories, Theory, Tropopause, Troposphere.

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2024 Graduate Climate Conference; Seattle, Washington; November 1-3, 2024
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Becky Alexander($50,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Climate Conference, Graduate Students, GCC, Interdisciplinary.

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Assessing and Understanding the Sensitivity of Tropical Orographic Precipitation to Climate Variations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. William R Boos($796,213), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Convective Orographic Precipitation, Tropical Orographic Precipitation, Arabian Sea, Generate Precipitation, Stable Air, Weather Stations, Climate, Clouds, Convection, Developed, Has, Image, Middle, Model, Mountain, Pis, Produce, Rain, Rising, Shallow, Simulations, Summer, Summit, Theory, Tropics, Undergraduate, Upwind, Waves, Wind.

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CAREER: Neutrons in Numerical Simulations--Integrating Water Isotopic Data across Past and Present to Improve Future Hydroclimate Projections
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sylvia G Dee($642,396), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Climatic Conditions, Girl Scouts, Heavier Isotopes, Heavier Water, Heavy Isotopes, Ice Cores, Isotopic Abundances, Isotopic Composition, Model Simulations, Paleoclimate Proxies, Paleoclimate Proxy, Rainwater Collectors, Source Region, Water Cycle, Water Isotopes, Water Vapor, Access, Based, Climate, Component, Consequence, Consistently, Covering, Effects, Effort, Efforts, Extent, Found, HDO, HISD, HO, Has, Hydrological, In-situ, Infer, Instance, Isotope-enabled, Lack, Models, Observations, Public, Reasons, Rice, SWING, Speleothems, Students, Warming, Wisonet.

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Studies in the Climate Dynamics of Moist Process Variability and Change
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. J David Neelin($1,389,411), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Moist Heat Waves, Climate Warms, Convective Precipitation, Extreme Precipitation, Probability Distribution, Rainfall Intensity, Risk Ratios, Statistical Mechanics, Water Vapor, Aces, Air, Atmospheric, Cloud, Clouds, Convecting, Convection, Entrainment, Has, Heavy, Inch, Increase, Likelihood, Moisture, Motion, Particular, Periods, Pis, Potential, Produce, Shown, Suppression, Temperature.

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Investigating the Baroclinic Annular Mode and its Predictability of Extreme Weather Events in the Midlatitudes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lei Wang($526,520), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Bam And Blocking, Weather And Blocking, Bam Activity, Diabatic Heating, Extreme Weather, Southern Hemisphere, Time Scales, Warming Climate, Atmospheric, Circulation, Dynamical, Education, Enhanced, Expected, Frequency, Future, Has, Increase, Investigate, K-, Knowledge, Large-scale, Midlatitude, Model, Models, Modes, Processes, Rainfall, Simulate, Subseasonal-to-seasonal, Synoptic.

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CAREER: Climate Variability in Hawaii through Scientific and Indigenous Approaches
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Giuseppe Torri($182,421), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Hawaiʻi’s Climate, Indigenous People, Approach, Extreme, Hawaiian, Hawaiʻi’s, Islands, Islands’, Knowledge, Methods, Weather.

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Rossbypalooza 2024: A Student-led Summer School on Climate and Extreme Events Conference; Chicago, Illinois; July 22-August 2, 2024
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Noboru Nakamura($50,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Graduate Students, Chicago, Climate, Extreme, Participants, Quantify, Travel, Workshop.

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EMBRACE-AGS-Growth: Quantification of Biophysical, Physiological, and Phenological Vegetation Contributions to Future Climate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Christopher Skinner($398,984), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Co2 Fertilization, Co2 Increase, Fire Weather, Growing Season, Increasing Co2, Indirect Effects, Stomatal Closure, Surface Humidity, Air, Applied, Atmosphere, CAM, CESM, CLM, Climate, Consequences, Decrease, Direct, Earlier, Falls, Has, Instance, Land, Leading, Leaves, Less, Means, Model, Models, Moisture, Performed, Photosynthesis, Plants, Rain, Resources, Risk, Simulated, Soil, Stomates, Transpiration, Variety, Vegetation, Water.

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Quantifying the Drivers of Evapotranspiration Over Land Under Future Climate Conditions
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Abigail L Swann($621,734), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Fertilization And Stomatal, Land Surface, Moisture Supply, Plant Physiology, Plants Absorb, Stomatal Closure, Air, Amount, Atmosphere, CESM, CLM, Climate, Demand, Directly, Effect, Effects, Evaporation, Increase, Matter, Mechanism, Model, Performed, Photosynthesis, Regulating, Release, Simulations, Societal, Soil, Stomates, Temperatures, Transpiration, Vegetation, Warming, Water.

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Dynamics and Predictability of Coastal El Nino Events, and Implications for El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diversity
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sen Zhao($644,460), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Coastal El Nino, Equatorial Pacific, Ml Model, Surface Winds, Dynamics, Forecast, Ocean, Pis, Predictability, Prediction, Predictors, SST, Sensitivity, South, Student, Various, Warm, Warming, Waves.

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Collaborative Research: Non-Linearity and Feedbacks in the Atmospheric Circulation Response to Increased Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lorenzo M Polvani($546,989), Columbia University, New York
2. Darryn W Waugh($601,138), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Global Temperature Increase, Climate Impacts, Climate Model, Co2 Increase, Model Simulations, Rapid Weakening, Regional Climate, Stratospheric Ozone, AMOC, Affects, Amount, Assessments, Atlantic, Circulation, Consideration, Factor, Has, Influence, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Nonlinearity, Northern, Pis, Proportional, Warming.

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The Upscaling of Tropical Pacific Ocean Rain Layers to Convection and Modes of Pacific Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Petrus Johannes van Leeuwen($711,800), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Cold Lid Mechanism, Weather And Climate, Convective Clouds, El Nino, Organized Convection, Rain Layers, Surface Winds, Atmospheric, Broad, Development, Effects, Falling, Flux, Fluxes, Has, Intensification, Intensifying, Large-scale, Less, MJO, Model, Moisture, Ocean, Performed, Pis, Produce, Rainwater, Regional, Resolution, Restriction, Simulations, Strong, Typically, Warmer, Wwbs.

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Winds of Change: Exploring the Meteorological Drivers of Global Dust
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Amato T Evan($800,565), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Global Climate Models, Offline Dust Emission, Climatic Effects, Downslope Windstorms, Dust Concentration, Dust Emissions, Mineral Dust, Aerosol, Air, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Burden, CESM, Dry, Dustiness, Dynamics, Efforts, Extreme, Haboobs, Has, Land, MPAS, Particulate, Prominence, Resolution, Simulations, Small-scale, Strong.

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Collaborative Research: Characterizing Atmospheric Tropical-waves of the Lower Stratosphere with Reel-down Atmospheric Temperature Sensing for Strateole-2--RATS Chasing CATS!
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Martina Bramberger($109,213), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Lars E Kalnajs($305,435), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Detect Gravity Waves, Strateole-2 Field Campaign, Gps Receiver, Lower Stratosphere, Weather Prediction, Altitude, Atmospheric, Balloon, Balloons, CNES, Deployment, Deployments, Development, Difference, Driving, Equator, Flights, Float, Gondola, LMU, Layer, Lowered, Model, Operational, Participation, Pis, Provided, QBO, RATS, Set, TTL, Temperature, Thermometer, Thermometers, Tropical, Tropopause, Vertical, Wavelengths.

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Collaborative Research: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future Climate of the Lake Victoria Basin using High-Resolution Coupled Modeling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Daniel J Peppe($137,528), Baylor University, Waco
2. Edward K Vizy($826,537), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Lake Victoria Basin, Grid Covers, Lake Size, Rain Falls, Thunderstorm Complexes, Africa, Atlantic, Baylor, Capture, Climate, Cycle, Hazard, Indian, Influence, Lakes, Largest, Model, Museum, Nested, Pis, Rainfall, Range, Region, Regional, Simulations, WRF, Water, Weather.

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Continuing Measurements of Water Vapor, Clouds, Aerosol, and Waves Above, and Across, the Tropical Tropopause Layer with in Situ Instruments on Circum-Tropical Isopycnic Balloons
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lars E Kalnajs($520,683), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Saturation Vapor Pressure, Ice Particles, Lower Stratosphere, Moisture Sensor, Particle Counter, Previous Deployments, Relative Humidities, Sensor Developed, Size Bins, Temperature Sensor, Vertical Resolution, AGS-, Aerosols, Altitude, Balloon, Balloons, Campaign, Cirrus, Clouds, Colorado, Develops, Flights, Float, Flown, Formation, French, Gondola, Has, Humidity, Instrument, Issue, LPC, Laboratory, Layer, Layers, Level, Microns, Observations, Observe, Participation, Pis, Profiles, Provided, RS, Rachuts, Strateole-, TDL, TTL, Third, Tropical, Waves.

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Collaborative Research: Enabling Cloud-Permitting and Coupled Climate Modeling via Nonhydrostatic Extensions of the CESM Spectral Element Dynamical Core
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Christiane Jablonowski($590,053), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Ramalingam Saravanan($163,940), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Se Dynamical Core, Tropical Cyclones, CAM, CESM, Computing, Doe’s, Experimental, GSRM, Has, Model, Models, Nonhydrostatic, Resolutions, Run, Simulations, Version.

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Collaborative Research: Four-Dimensional (4D) Investigation of Tropical Waves Using High-Resolution GNSS Radio Occultation from Strateole2 Balloons
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jennifer S Haase($447,538), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Martina Bramberger($63,179), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Six Roc Receivers, Cirrus Clouds, Ice Particles, Momentum Flux, Radio Occultation, Ro Profiles, Roc Observations, Temperature Fluctuations, Temperature Profiles, Three-dimensional Structure, Wave Driving, Weather Models, AGS-, Air, Balloon, Balloons, Becool, Build, Campaign, Climate, Cooling, Deployment, Deployments, Descends, Developed, Effort, Field, Flights, Float, Formation, French, Frequencies, GNSS, Global, Launched, Layer, Lower, Motions, Operational, Participation, Pis, Prediction, QBO, Reason, Refraction, Roughly, Satellite, Satellites, Seychelles, Strateole-, Stratosphere, Students, TTL, Three-dimensional, Tropical, Tropopause, Value, Waves.

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Collaborative Research: AGS-FIRP Track 2--Process Investigation of Clouds and Convective Organization over the atLantic Ocean (PICCOLO)
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2024; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Allison A Wing($388,876), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. James H Ruppert($162,235), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
3. Ve Chandrasekar($748,139), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Earth's Energy Balance, Atlantic Ocean, Cape Verde, Convective Organization, Earth's Energy, Orcestra Effort, Organized Convection, Tropical Atlantic, Affect, Barbados, Campaign, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Clusters, Environment, Extent, Found, German, Has, International, Meteor, North, PICCOLO, Precipitation, Quiescent, Radar, Real-world, Relevance, SEA-POL, Simulations, Societal, Students, Temperature, Tropics, Uniform, Variety, Weather.

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Collaborative Research: The Relationship between the Trade Wind Inversion Layer and the Seasonal Development of the Southeast Pacific Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Rebecca Hatheway($36,820), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Climate Model, Cloud Cover, Cold Ssts, Double Itcz, Eastern Pacific, Hemisphere Itcz, Itcz Formation, Rainfall Contrast, Secondary Itcz, Southeast Pacific, Southern Hemisphere, Surface Wind, Wind Convergence, Analysis, Atmospheric, Conditions, Convection, Convective, Equator, Factors, February, Genesis, Moist, Momentum, North, Particular, Promotes, Simulations, Stability, TWI, Transport, Warmer.

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Unidata Reimagined: New Approaches to Community Data Services
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: Community Programs

1. Mohan K Ramamurthy($4,500,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Nsf Unidata, Software Tools, Technical Solutions, Advancing, ESS, Educators, Minority-serving, Opportunities, Partnerships, Program, Serves, Services, Universities, Variety, Worldwide.

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REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience for Undergraduates in Atmospheric and Geological Hazards
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

1. Sophie Nowicki($433,709), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Natural Hazards, Undergraduate Students, Advisors, Climate, Experience, Experts, Fields, Interdisciplinary, Lake, Mentors, Primary, Skills.

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Educational Experiences in Atmospheric Science Field Campaigns: A Community Workshop
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Dawn M Kopacz($99,967), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atmospheric Scientists, Early-career Training, Field Campaigns, Advance, Developing, Development, Early-career, Education, Effectively, Experiences, Gaps, Has, Identity, Integration, Knowledge, Observations, Opportunities, Potential, Practices, Seeks, Settings, Student, Students, Unique, Workshop.

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REU Site: Climate, Air Quality, and Urban Systems Research at The Pennsylvania State University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. John M Peters($542,110), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Air Quality, Cities, Climate, Communication, Effects, Energy, Peer-reviewed, Program, Solving, Students, Urban, Wildfires.

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REU Site: Broadening Participation in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Geosciences Research--A Multi-Institution Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Zachary J Handlos($488,720), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Georgia Tech, Graduate School, Reu Program, Reu Students, Student Participants, AOG, Aog-related, Array, Atlanta, Development, Diverse, Diversity, GSU, Increase, NSF, Programs, Skills.

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REU Site: Program in Climate and Space Science Observation (PICASSO) at the University of Michigan
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Frank Marsik($454,235), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Activities, Climate, Computational, Developing, Development, Engineering, Faculty, Fields, Participants, Personal, Program, Skills, Space, Students, Technical.

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REU Site: Climate and Atmospheric Science Research Experience in the Center for Climate and Aerosol Research at Portland State University
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Andrew Rice($505,759), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Atmospheric And Climate, Changing Climate, CCAR, Critical, Diverse, Earth’s, Fields, Future, Generation, Geosciences, Global, Has, Intensive, Interdisciplinary, Invests, Opportunities, Program, REU, Recruiting, STEM, Solutions, Students, Summer, Training, Underrepresented, Warming.

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EMBRACE-AGS-Seed: Powerful Gamma-Ray and Radio-Frequency Emissions from Thunderstorms
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: EMBRACE-EMpwrBRdrAcdmcCpcty&Ed

1. Bagrat Mailyan($200,000), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Lightning Network, Datasets, Emissions, Gamma-ray, Ground-based, High-energy, Monitor, Observations, Radio, Satellite, Tgfs.

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EMBRACE-AGS-Seed: Unveiling the Role of Aerosols in Tropical Cyclone Precipitation in the Atlantic Basin
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: EMBRACE-EMpwrBRdrAcdmcCpcty&Ed

1. Laiyin Zhu($198,702), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Key terms: Tc Rain Rates, Environmental Forcings, Extreme Weather, Saharan Dust, Tc Rainfall, Atmospheric, Climate, Cloud, Complex, Dynamics, Enhance, Interactions, ML, Models, Processes, Ssts, Techniques.

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MRI Track 1: Development of a Geospace and Middle Atmosphere Lidar
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Michael Roddewig($473,439), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Geospace And Middle, Atmospheric Density, Middle Atmosphere, Water Vapor, Aerosol, Aerosols, Climate, Dynamic, Generation, Laser, Lidar, Meteorological, Mj, Mode, Modes, Nm, PFRR, Processes, Program, Receiver, Space, Temperature, Topics, Weather.

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CAREER: Observational and Modeling Investigations of Pulsating Aurora Electrodynamics
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Stephen Kaeppler($360,000), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: All-sky Imager, On-and-off Modulations, Poker Flat, Pulsating Aurora, Radio Wave, Affect, All-sky, Auroral, Clemson, Communication, Conductivity, Electrodynamics, Energy, GEMINI, HF, Investigation, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Latitude, Model, Modeling, Observations, Occurring, On-and-off, Precipitation, Program, Regions, Students, Temporal.

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Understanding the Geospace Phenomena Connected to Localized Perturbations in Earth’s Magnetic Field
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. James Clemmons($577,698), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Localized Magnetic Perturbations, Magnetosphere And Ionosphere, Ionosphere Phenomena, Localized Perturbations, Magnetic Field, Space Weather, Ability, Advantage, Correlate, Current, Currents, Datasets, Dbdt, Forecasting, Geomagnetic, Geomagnetically, Gics, Ground, Increased, Intervals, ML, Machine, Model, Models, Peaks, Power, Resolution, Spatial, Techniques.

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Collaborative Research: AGS-FIRP Track 1--The 2025 Nebraska-RaXPol Education and Outreach (NREO-2025) Project
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Adam L Houston($34,984), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
2. Nathaniel J Cunningham($4,252), Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln
Key terms: K-12 Students, Meteorology Course, Deployment, Educational, Nebraska, Radar, Raxpol.

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AGS-CIF: COWNET--COW, Mini-COW, Rapid-Scan DOW, CROW-X, and Mobile Mesonet
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2024; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Joshua M Wurman($249,956), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Available, COWNET, Instruments, Outreach, Precipitation, Radars, Weather.

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AGS-CIF: Mobile Uncrewed Systems for Atmospheric Science (MUSAS)
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Brian M Argrow($349,999), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric And Geospace, Instruments And Facilities, Lower Atmosphere, Suas Platforms, Uncrewed Aircraft, AGS, Access, Available, Boulder, CIF, Colorado, Enhance, Environments, Facility, Instrumentation, MUSAS, NSF, Observational, Otherwise, Processes, Program, Request, Vehicles.

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AGS-CIF: Doppler On Wheels Network and Ruggedized Array of Pods/Poles (DOWNET)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Karen A Kosiba($448,486), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Karen A Kosiba($448,486), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Downet Facility, Weather Stations, Array, Available, Doppler, Mobile, Outreach, Precipitation, Radars.

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AGS-FIRP Track 1- Introduction to Aerosol Sampling Using Single-Particle Soot Photometer (SP2)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Mark Kanaparthi($39,131), Francis Marion University, Florence
Key terms: Mechanical Engineering Lab, Real Time Black, Time Black Carbon, Lab Course, Sp2 Instrument, Air, Lecture, Opportunities, Receive, Students.

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AGS-FIRP Track 1: Lake-induced Inversion Trapping of Emissions on the Superior Coast (LITESC)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Judith Perlinger($37,207), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Keweenaw Bay, Lake Superior, Southern Shore, Vertical Profiles, Air, Atmospheric, Boundary, Center, L’anse, Michigan, Outreach, SPARC, Students, Temperature, Tropospheric, Wisconsin-madison, Wood.

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AGS-FIRP Track 1: Application of an Ice Nucleation Cold Stage for Teaching Cloud Microphysics in Science and Engineering Classes at a Minority-serving Institution
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Sanjoy K Bhattacharia($74,999), West Texas A&M University, Canyon
Key terms: Ice Nucleation Cold, Nucleation Cold Stage, Teaching Assistants, Amarillo, Class, Classroom, Fall, Laboratory, Module, Phase, Semester, Setting, Spring, Students.

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AGS-FIRP Track 1: Learning by Doing: Observing the Lake Michigan Lake-Breeze Circulation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2024; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Allen C Evans($22,270), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Broader Public, Lake Michigan, Lake-breeze Circulations, Adjacent, Atmospheric, Center, Classroom, Hands-on, House, Lake-breeze, Land, Observations, SPARC, Seventh-grade, Students, Temperature, Wisconsin-milwaukee.

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AGS-FIRP Track 1: The 2024 SUNY Oswego Undergraduate Radar Curriculum Experience (SOURCE)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Katelyn A Barber($17,684), SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego
Key terms: Radar Meteorology, Undergraduate Students, DOW, Development, Foundational, Oswego, Outreach, SUNY.

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CIF: An Ice Nucleation Cold-Stage for Research and Teaching
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Markus D Petters($89,031), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Ice Nucleation Cold, Nucleation Cold Stage, Freezing Assay, Ice Nucleating, Instrument Facility, Nucleation Process, Available, Conferences, Design, Educational, NC, Observe.

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Collaborative Research: EAGER--Cognition in the Wild: Understanding How Students and Experts Reason about Atmospheric Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: IUSE

1. Thomas F Shipley($80,065), Temple University, Philadelphia
2. Peggy M McNeal($203,017), Towson University, Towson
Key terms: Student And Expert, Atmospheric Scientists, Authentic Atmospheric, Complex Atmospheric, Expert Practice, Experts Transfer, Field Studies, Observe Student, Cognitive, Education, Environment, Evidence, Expertise, Fluid, Future, IUSE, Interviews, Phenomena, Processes, Program, Reasoning, Seeks, Students, Taking, Thinking.

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International Summit to Consider a Special-Purpose Computational System for Frontier Earth System Science and Climate Projection; Urbana, Illinois; Fall-2024
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2024; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Kelvin K Droegemeier($129,436), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Local And Regional, Brbrthe Summit, Climate Projection, International Summit, Special-purpose Computational, AI, Creating, Esms, Examine, Forward, Frontier, Global, Health, Information, Model, Opportunity, Projections, Resolution, Special-purpose.

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Ion Energization, Heating and Outflow in Broadband Electromagnetic Waves above the High Latitude Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Christopher Chaston($196,137), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Near-earth Space Environment, Electromagnetic Fields, Global Simulations, Ion Heating, Near-earth Space, Space Weather, Characterize, Charged, Coupling, Critical, Defining, Driven, Earth’s, Energization, Energized, Interactions, Ions, Nearth, Observations, Outflow, Outflowing, Outflows, Physics, Plasma, Rates, Spatio-temporal, Wave, Waves.

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Energy EXchange At the Magnetopause (EEXAM)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Matti M Ala-Lahti($160,277), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Low-latitude Dayside Magnetopause, Boundary Motion, Energy Exchange, Energy Transfer, Low-latitude Dayside, Solar Wind, Transferred Energy, Conditions, Content, Current, Dynamics, Electromagnetic, Field, Local, Magnetic, Magnetospheric, Plasma, Processes, Space.

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Collaborative Research: GEM: Comparative Study of Mars' and Earth's Magnetotail Current Sheets
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yingjuan Ma($83,171), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Xiaojia Zhang($81,537), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Earth’s Magnetotail Current, Formation And Destruction, Magnetotail Current Sheets, Charged Particle, Earth’s Magnetotail, Magnetic Field, Plasma Parameters, Rtian Magnetotail, Compare, Configuration, Configurations, Contributions, Datasets, Energies, Energy, Kinetic, MAVEN, Magnetospheres, Plasmas, Ratio, Reveal, Supplemented, Systematically, Velocities.

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Travel Grant: International School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS) and Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in the Laboratory and in Space (IPELS) Student Support
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. David Schriver($10,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Basic Simulation, School Portion, Simulation Techniques, Codes, Experts, Field, Held, ISSS, Meeting, Space, Students.

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Stormtime Ultra-low-frequency (ULF) Waves in the Inner Magnetosphere: Mode Structure and Particle Environment
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Kazue Takahashi($415,309), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Inner Magnetosphere, Mode Structure, Ring Current, Symmetric Waves, Ulf Waves, Compressional, DCI, Determined, Drift, Energetic, Energy, Instability, Investigation, Ions, Magnetic, Magnetospheric, Observationally, Occurrence, Particles, Plasma, Properties, RBSP, Relation, Relevance, Space.

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GEM: Comparative Assessment of Energetic Electron Precipitation Driven by Whistler-mode Waves at Earth and Jupiter
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Murong Qin($662,579), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Electron Precipitation Driven, Energetic Electron Precipitation, Energetic Electrons, Whistler-mode Waves, Aims, Diverse, Dynamics, Effects, Findings, Jupiter, Objectives, Observations, Outreach, Plasma, Properties, Solar, Space, Students, Various, Whistler-mode.

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Collaborative Research: GEM--Determining the Global Impact of Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interactions in the Radiation Belts
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Scot R Elkington($294,241), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. William J Longley($260,221), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
3. Anthony A Chan($44,579), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Earth’s Radiation Belts, Nonlinear Wave-particle Interactions, Radiation Belt Model, Amplitude Waves, Earth’s Radiation, Nonlinear Wave-particle, Space Environment, Wave-particle Interactions, Complex, Global, Has, Localized, Modeling, Physics.

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EAGER: New Approaches to Investigating Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) Waves in Earth's Magnetosphere--Listening for Wave Structure through Sonification
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Lauren Blum($249,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Electromagnetic Waves, Emic Waves, Sonification Techniques, Visual Inspection, Aims, Application, Current, GOES, Has, Ions, Listening, Looking, Magnetosphere, Sets, Space, Studying.

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Collaborative Research: The Collective Wedgelet Formation of the Substorm Current Wedge--The Role of Different Plasma Populations and Insights from a Fully Coupled Geospace Model
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jiang Liu($74,296), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Frank R Toffoletto($153,853), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Substorm Current Wedge, Earth's Magnetosphere-ionosphere, Energy Release, Solar Wind, Asymmetry, Bbfs, Collective, Complex, Dipolarization, Flows, Formation, Investigate, Lead, Magnetosphere-ionosphere, Observed, Outcome, Plasma, Pressure, Process, Public, SCW.

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GEM: Stochastic Parameterization of Lightning-Generated Whistler (LGW) Diffusion Coefficients
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert A Marshall($292,793), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Radiation Belt Electrons, Weather And Climate, Climate Fields, Diffusion Coefficients, Diffusion Model, Ensemble Modeling, Stochastic Parameterization, Stochastically Parameterized, Wave Mode, Wave-particle Interactions, Atmosphere, Dynamics, Lgws, Physics, Plasmasphere, Precipitation, Predict, Primary, Representing, Space, Upper, Wave-particle.

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GEM: Understanding the Causes of Geomagnetic Disturbances in Geospace for Hazard Analysis on Equivalent Ionospheric and Telluric Currents in North America and Greenland
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. James M Weygand($419,448), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ionospheric And Telluric, Electric Fields, Equivalent Ionospheric, Geomagnetic Disturbances, Magnetic Field, Space Weather, Telluric Currents, Aims, Developing, Earth, Gmds, Induce, Infrastructure, THEMIS.

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Reconnection Onset in Overstretched Magnetotail Current Sheets
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Grant K Stephens($594,429), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Magnetic Field Lines, Current Sheet, Near-earth Region, Reconnection Onset, Reconnection Regimes, Space Weather, CS, Css, Effects, Electrons, Energy, Global, Investigate, Ion, Ion-scale, Magnetosphere, Magnetotail, Mechanism, Nearth, OTCS, Observed, Outside, Rapidly, Requires, Stability, Stretched, Structure, Thin, Vast.

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Collaborative Research: GEM--Whistler-mode Wave Properties in Plasmasphere-Plasmatrough Transition Regions
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. David Malaspina($77,362), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Scott A Thaller($109,432), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
3. David P Hartley($345,680), University of Iowa, Iowa City
4. Evan A Tyler($41,694), College of Saint Scholastica, Duluth
Key terms: Hiss And Chorus, Density Gradient, Plasmasphere-plasmatrough Transition, Radiation Belt, Transition Region, Transition Regions, Wave Properties, ‘soft’ Plasmapause, Boundary, Directly, Has, Models, Occurring, Particles, Plasmasphere-plasmatrough, Sharp, Spatially, Statistical, Time, Towards, Waves, Well-defined, Whistler-mode, ‘soft’.

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Collaborative Research: GEM: A novel Machine learning technique to Parameterize EneRgetic Electron maps (AMPERE)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Sadie S Elliott($49,076), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Luisa Capannolo($89,682), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
3. Joshua Pettit($87,490), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Dynamics And Temporal, Radiation Belt Dynamics, Spatial And Temporal, Atmospheric Chemistry, Eep Maps, Electron Precipitation, Energetic Electrons, Energy Input, Geomagnetic Activity, Plasma Waves, Space Weather, Temporal Dependence, Temporal Evolution, Atmosphere, Coverage, Developing, Does, Flux, Global, Has, Ionization, Lead, Limited, Loss, ML, Machine, Main, Model, Monitoring, Parameterize, Regions, Satellite, Size, Time.

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On the Energy-Dependent Deep (L less than 3) Penetrations of Energetic Electrons (10s of keV to multi-MeV)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Xinlin Li($515,885), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Belt Electrons, Electric Volts, Energetic Electrons, Energy-dependent Deep, Inner Belt, Mechanisms Responsible, Outer Belt, Current, Dynamics, Energy-dependent, Equator, Has, Investigation, Kev, Mev, Penetrations, Radii, Region, Source, Space, Spacecraft, Surface, Underlying.

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Collaborative Research: GEM--Multi-scale Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling Dynamics Driven by Bursty Bulk Flows
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Zihan Wang($148,179), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
2. Shasha Zou($449,990), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Fast Plasma Flows, Energy Release, Atmosphere, BBF, Bbfs, Coupled, Coupling, Dynamics, Effects, Magnetosphere, Multiple, Nightside, Particle, SQ.

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Collaborative Research: GEM: Propagation and Dissipation of Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves in the Magnetosphere and Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Hyomin Kim($135,941), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
2. Mark J Engebretson($106,909), Augsburg University, Minneapolis
3. Eun-Hwa Kim($555,251), Andrews University, Berrien Springs
Key terms: Emic Wave Propagation, Magnetic Field Topologies, Propagation And Dissipation, Emic Waves, Geomagnetic Activity, Inner Magnetosphere, Ion Cyclotron, Simulation Code, Wave Properties, Affected, Compressed, Density, FEM, Frequency, GOES, Ground, Investigate, Ions, Models, Near, Observations, Parameters, Petra-m, Plasma, Polarization, Reach, Satellites, Space, Various.

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CAREER: Securing the Future of Electric Field Measurements in Space Physics
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Katherine A Goodrich($85,371), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Electric Field Instrumentation, Electric Field Instruments, Optimizing Electric Field, Spatial And Temporal, Magnetic Field, Perpendicular Spatial, Space Physics, Space Plasma, West Virginia, AAR, Cost-effective, Cubesat, Design, Future, Gap, Hardware, Has, Mission, Observe, Operate, Opportunities, Spacecraft, Step, Students, Utilize.

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RUI: Characterization and Modeling of Space Weather Geomagnetic Fluctuations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. James Wanliss($105,602), Anderson University, Anderson
Key terms: Space Weather, Spatiotemporal Fluctuations, Additionally, Field, Magnetic, Technologies, Undergraduate.

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Collaborative Research: Ultra-High Resolution Paleostreamflow in Southeast Asia--Proxy/Model Comparison
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Hung T Nguyen($101,087), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Southeast Asia, Create, Estimates, Paleo-streamflow, Reconstruction, Streamflow.

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Collaborative Research: Precipitation and Streamflow Reconstruction and Analysis in the Amazon River Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Daniela Granato de Souza($267,007), Alabama A&M University, Normal
2. David W Stahle($276,385), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: 19th Century, Amazon River, Eastern Amazon, River Levels, Tree Ring, Annual, Climate, Deforestation, Extremes, Flood, Fluctuations, Historical, Low, Mechanisms, Model, Natural, Odorata, Paleoclimate, Potential, Reconstruct, Reconstruction, Time, Tree-ring, Tropical.

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An Isotope-Enabled Data Assimilation System for the Last Millennium over South America
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Mathias Vuille($526,171), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Activities, Assess, Assimilation, Atlantic, DA, Environmental, Future, Has, Isotope-enabled, LM, Monsoon, Potential, Quantify, Region, SASM, SST, South.

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Collaborative Research: Temperature Variability and Extremes at Multiple Temporal Scales in North Asia from Millennial-Length Wood Anatomical Records
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Laia Andreu-Hayles($25,247), Columbia University, New York
2. Nicole K Davi($196,447), William Paterson University, Wayne
Key terms: Quantitative Wood Anatomy, Wood Anatomical Traits, Climate Extremes, North Asia, Temperature Extremes, Annual, Capture, Conditions, Frost, Millennial-length, Mongolia, Region, Rings, Siberian, Weather.

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Collaborative Research: Shifting Drought Patterns in West Africa: Constraining Model Simulations with Paleo Reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Michela Biasutti($424,095), Columbia University, New York
2. Boniface O Fosu($303,519), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State
Key terms: West Africa, Climate, Collect, Drought, Field, Ghana, Natural, Paleoclimate, Reconstruction, Reconstructions, Senegal, Time.

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Collaborative Research: The North American Temperature Atlas--A Climate Field Reconstruction for Investigating Effects of Temperature on Past Droughts
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Edward R Cook($195,606), Columbia University, New York
2. Grant Harley($147,279), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
3. Kevin J Anchukaitis($34,522), University of Arizona, Tucson
4. Justin Maxwell($74,571), Indiana University, Bloomington
5. Karen King($230,732), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Blue Intensity, Extreme Heat, Gridded North, Previously Collected, Tree Cores, Tree Ring, Atlas, Compile, Create, Drought, Existing, K-, NATA, Reconstruction, Resource, STEM, School, Students, Temperature, Time, Water.

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Collaborative Research: P4Climate--A Paleo Perspective on the Links between Climate and Food Security
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Deborah Khider($185,453), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2. Armen Kemanian($198,435), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Climate Field Reconstructions, Advances, Crop, Development, Downscaling, Droughts, Efforts, Future, Has, Maize, Megadroughts, Methods, Modeling, Paleoclimate, Past, Potential, Quantitative, Scenarios, Shifts, Synthesis, Water.

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Collaborative Research: Connecting Seasonal to Millennial Timescales through Strongly Coupled Data Assimilation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Gregory Hakim($409,233), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Julien Emile-Geay($269,066), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Climate Forecasts, Assimilation, Centennial, Dynamics, Ocean, Paleoclimate, Proxies, Proxy, Seasonal.

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Collaborative Research: Advancing Our Understanding of Global Paleoclimate through the Expansion of African Dendrochronology
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Richard S Maxwell($130,449), Radford University, Radford
2. Nicole E Zampieri($319,165), Indiana State University, Terre Haute
3. Matthew Bekker($103,171), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Annual Field, Broader Impacts, Field School, Past Climate, Tree Ring, Tree Species, Create, Drivers, Gridded, ITCZ, Precipitation, Primary, Reconstruction, Region, Zambia.

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Disentangling Dynamical Controls on Deglacial Hydroclimate in Eastern North America
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. David Fastovich($547,085), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: North Atlantic Subtropical, Eastern North, Climate, Deglaciation, Hydroclimate, Potential, Sensitivity.

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Collaborative Research: Reducing Uncertainties in Tree-ring Records of Wet Extremes to Aid Interpretations of Past Climate and Plan for Future Changes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Erika K Wise($211,743), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Matthew Dannenberg($324,677), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Future Hydroclimate Extremes, Management And Projecting, Ameriflux Network, Graduate Student, Past Rainfall, Rainfall Extremes, Tree Growth, Tree Ring, Tree Rings, Undergraduate Students, Water Management, Wet Extremes, Climate, Dendrometers, Measure, Nonprofit, Postdoc, Precipitation, Problematic, Reconstructions, Sites, Time, Training, Trees, Width.

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Collaborative Research: Intertropical Convergence Zone Variations from Stable Oxygen Isotope Tree-ring Records in the Tropical Americas
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Laia Andreu-Hayles($562,254), Columbia University, New York
2. Kevin J Anchukaitis($192,386), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. Diego Pons Ganddini($29,999), University of Denver, Denver
Key terms: Cellulose, Climate, Extensive, Isotopes, Potential, Tropical.

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Collaborative Research: Characterizing Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Variability from Central American Wind Gap-Induced Upwelling
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Patrick A Rafter($441,804), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Sierra Madre Mountains, Tehuantepec Gap Winds, Atmospheric Dynamics, Hispanic Serving, Atlantic, Atlantic-pacific, Characterize, Climate, Constraint, Driving, Examinations, Gulf, Inter-basin, Isthmus, Mexico, Model, North, Pacific, Past, Preliminary, Pressure, Processes, Radiocarbon, Sediment, Students, Upwelling, ‘upstream’.

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EAGER: Creating a Composite EL Nino Record from the Lowland Neotropics
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Mark B Bush($256,539), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Atmospheric, Composite, ENSO, Global, History.

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Tropical hydroclimate change during the last deglaciation: a synthesis of isotope-enabled transient climate model simulations and proxy data
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2024; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Xiaojing Du($220,889), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Boundary Conditions, Tropical Hydroclimate, Atmospheric, Brown, Climate, Comparison, Configuration, Deglaciation, Drivers, Influence, Isotope, Model, Pan-tropical, Precipitation, Proxy, Regional, Spatiotemporal, Students, Undergraduate, Water.

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Collaborative Research: P2C2--South African Hydroclimate Reconstructions Using Speleothem Multiproxy Analyses
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2020; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Curtis W Marean($559,051), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Glacial-interglacial Transition, South Africa, Climate, Coast, Conditions, Glacial-interglacial, Hydroclimate, Inform, Multi-proxy, Proxy, Rainfall, Region, Southern, Speleothem.

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Investigating How Tropical Cyclone Expansion Rate Changes With Warming
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Danyang Wang($215,146), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Storm Impacts, Tropical Cyclone, Tropical Cyclones, Climate, Conditions, Difficult, Expansion, Forecast, Forecasting, Future, Gap, Hazards, Model, Models, Observations, Outcomes, Quickly, Real-world, Risk, Size, Tasks, Theory, Warming, Wind.

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EAGER: Depth Sensitive Thermography for Mapping Temperatures of Our Environment
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jyotirmoy Mandal($281,057), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Air, Applications, Atmosphere, Atmosphere’s, Atmospheric, Climate, Concept, DST, Design, Distribution, Dst-imager, Dynamics, Explore, Findings, Line, Meteorological, Opacity, Proof-of-concept, Resolutions, Spectral, Spectralspatial, Temperature, Temperatures, Temporal, Thermal, Thermography, Time, Wavebands, Weather, Yield.

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RAPID: The Impact of Complex Terrain on Atmospheric Mixing through Measurements of Isotopologues of Water Vapor in the Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Darin W Toohey($50,365), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Mount Werner, Mountain Slope, Water Vapor, Air, Atmospheric, Campaign, Deployment, Elevations, Field, Isotopes, Measuring, Mixing, Picarro, Pollution, Spectrometer, Wind.

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Collaborative Research: Predictive Understanding of Wildfire Spotting and Smoke Transport within the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David Schvartzman($108,519), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
2. Jielun Sun($69,929), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
3. Jie Sun($317,959), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Airborne Burning Embers, Billow-like Turbulent Eddies, Fire Smoke Plumes, Large-scale Billow-like Turbulent, Large-scale Turbulent Flows, Non-modal Instability Analysis, Occurring Density Currents, Billow-like Turbulent, Environment Conditions, Fire Spread, Large-scale Billow-like, Large-scale Turbulent, Non-modal Instability, Prescribed Fire, Rapid Growth, Atmospheric, Billows, Considerable, Dynamics, Engage, Fire-generated, Fires, Ground, Predictive, Processes, Site, Spotting, Students, Surface, Via, Wildfires, Workshops.

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RAPID: Hurricane Helene (2024) Rainfall, Brown Ocean Signature, AI and Physics Model Guidance, and Social Media Sentiment
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Hassan Dashtian($154,118), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Hurricane Helene, Public Perception, Social Media, Soil Moisture, Conditions, Disaster, Hurricanes, Landfall, Maintenance, Models, Precipitation, Produce, Surface, Weather, Wet.

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Collaborative Research: AGS-FIRP Track 3: In-situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail In the Plains (ICECHIP)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Yunji Zhang($562,680), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Andrew J Heymsfield($248,770), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. Daniel T Dawson($219,584), Purdue University, West Lafayette
4. Ve Chandrasekar($75,004), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
5. Jason M Keeler($815,349), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
6. Rebecca Adams-Selin($1,392,273), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
7. Vittorio A Gensini($3,655,904), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
8. Cameron R Homeyer($548,981), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
9. Brian M Argrow($965,500), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Comprehensive Observations, Field Campaign, Hail Characteristics, Hail Forecasting, Hail Size, Hail Trajectory, In-storm Hail, Storm Characteristics, Surface Hail, Concentration, Damage, Detection, Environmental, Explore, Extreme, Focuses, Growth, Hailstone, Hailstones, Hailstorms, ICECHIP, In-storm, Linked, Model, Models, Parameterizations, Plains, Processes, Properties, Radar, Radar-based, Theme, Updraft, Wind.

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MCA: Black Summer Laboratory for Understanding Mixed-phase Cloud Aerosol Effects over the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jennifer Small Griswold($366,958), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Black Summer, Cloud Properties, ACI, Aerosol, Air, Climate, Clouds, Future, Interactions, Processes, Southern, Summer”, Uncertainty, “black.

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MRI Track 1: Development of a Multi-Band Radio and Optical Lightning Imager
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael Gehm($980,858), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Radio And Optical, Internal Physics, Ability, Atmospheric, Available, Capabilities, Capable, Comprehensive, Dangerous, Existing, Fundamentally, Imaging, Instrument, Lightning, Own, Subsystems, Uniquely.

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Study of the Optical Properties of Dielectric Particles with Surface Roughness and Inhomogeneous Inclusions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ping Yang($699,314), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Light-scattering Modeling Capabilities, Particle Optical Properties, Light Scattering, Light-scattering Modeling, Remote Sensing, Surface Roughness, Accurate, Applications, Approaches, Effect, Has, Inhomogeneity, Inhomogeneous, Objective, Particles, Roughened, Shapes, Sizes.

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A Process-Level Understanding of Mesoscale Convective Processes over the Congo Basin Using the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Siyu Zhao($144,919), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Congo Basin, Human Well-being, Tropical Regions, Africa, Dynamic, Global, Mcss, Mechanisms, Meteorological, Rainfall, Socio-economy, Time, Weather, Well-being.

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Collaborative Research: Extreme Summer Urban Rainfall Modification under Urban Expansion in a Changing Climate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Francisco Salamanca Palou($512,256), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Dev Niyogi($399,134), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Extreme Wet Summer, Wet Summer Seasons, Extreme Summer, Projected Extreme, Urban Expansion, Climate, Comprising, Dynamical, Historical, Precipitation, Process-based, Rainfall, Responsible, Set, Simulations, WRF, Warming.

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Studies of Warm Rain Evolution using X-band Dual Polarization Radars and Advanced Ground Instruments during Summer Season in South Korea
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Viswanathan N Bringi($406,901), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Dsd Moments, Turbulent Intensity, Warm Rain, Amounts, Cloud, Clouds, Direct, Drop, Drops, Embedded, Fall, Microphysical, Objectives, Polarimetric, Processes, Radar, Raindrops, Rainfall, Shapes, Sizes, Th, X-band.

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Travel: 14th International Conference on Light and Color in Nature and Art
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joseph A Shaw($18,450), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Atmospheric And Environmental, Scientists And Artists, Environmental Optics, Natural World, Auroras, Curiosity, Devices, Halos, Optical, Rainbows, Smartphones, Water, Workshop.

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Collaborative Research: AGS-FIRP Track 3--Snow Sensitivity to Clouds in a Mountain Environment (S2noCliME)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Angela K Rowe($192,940), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Lynn A McMurdie($434,397), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Anna Gannet Hallar($863,974), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
4. Mariko Oue($1,215,834), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Cloud And Precipitation, Mountainous Terrain, Orographic Snowfall, Storm Peak, Water Resources, Campaign, Colorado, Instruments, Local, Modified, Mt, Processes, Set, Werner.

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Improved understanding of bow echo evolution and long-lasting significantly severe thunderstorm winds
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christina M Patricola($652,433), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Bow Echoes, Cold Pool, Grid Spacing, Leading Edge, Mesoscale Convective, Significantly Severe, CAM, Derecho, Derechos, Emphasis, Examine, Formation, Line, Lines, Long-lived, Mcss, Numerical, Processes, Produce, Sensitivity, Swaths, Various, Wind, Winds.

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Collaborative Research: Using Polarimetric Radar Observations, Cloud Modeling, and In Situ Aircraft Measurements for Large Hail Detection and Warning of Impending Hail
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Andrew J Heymsfield($151,409), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Alexander V Ryzhkov($298,441), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Cloud Model, Melting Layer, Polarimetric Radar, Radar Variables, Vertical Profiles, Aloft, Describing, Energy, Evolution, Hail, Hailstones, Height, Methodologies, Observations, Property, Radars, Size, Storm, Surface, Weather.

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Collaborative Research: Maritime to Inland Transitions Towards ENvironments for Convection Initiation (MITTEN CI)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Gijs de Boer($339,361), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. David A Kristovich($567,142), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Jason M Keeler($586,141), Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant
4. Christopher C Weiss($489,773), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Convection Initiation, Mahte Development, Thunderstorm Development, Aspects, Broader, CI, Campaign, Coastal, Convective, Doppler, Enable, Evolution, Influence, Knowledge, LBF, Lake-breeze, Lbfs, MITTEN-CI, Mobile, Nsurface, Processes, Profiles, Range, Structure, Temporal, Thermodynamic, Thorough, Transitions, Wind.

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Tropical Cyclones from 400 to 40 hPa
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David S Nolan($777,109), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Airborne Doppler Radar, Cirrus Shield, Inflow Layers, Satellite Images, Tropical Cyclones, Below, Budgets, Cloud, Dynamical, Globe, Hpa, Ice, Intensity, Investigate, Moisture, Observations, Outflow, Overshooting, Primary, Simulations, Storm, Storms, Stratosphere, Structure, Tcs, Updrafts, Water.

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Traversing the Gray Zone with Scale-aware Turbulence Closures
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Fotini K Chow($526,119), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Air Quality, Atmospheric Models, Gray Zone, Grid Nesting, Grid Resolution, Mixed Models, Scale-aware Turbulence, Weather Prediction, Wind Energy, Allow, Applications, California, Closure, Consistent, Extend, Forecasting, Framework, Modeling, Operate, Operational, Parameterizations, Performed, Resolutions, Scale-aware, Tested, Thoroughly.

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EAGER: Generalizing Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST)-based Surface Layer Parameterizations for Turbulence Resolving Earth System Models (ESMs)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Marc Calaf($236,421), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Flow And Surface, Generalized Monin-obukhov Similarity, Monin-obukhov Similarity Theory, Numerical Weather Prediction, Prediction And Climate, Climate Models, Generalized Monin-obukhov, Monin-obukhov Similarity, Spatial Resolution, Surface Configurations, Turbulence Anisotropy, Accuracy, Correcting, Developed, Energy, Exchanges, Existing, Experimental, Forecasts, Formulation, Framework, Has, Implemented, Land-atmosphere, Near, Nonetheless, Planning, Processes, Realistic, Representation, Represented, Step, Tested.

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Collaborative Research: What Drives the Most Extreme Rainstorms in the Contiguous United States (US)?
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Russ S Schumacher($487,973), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Aaron Hill($306,661), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Environmental Conditions, Extreme Precipitation, Extreme Rainfall, Flash Flooding, Atmospheric, Datasets, Has, Heavy, Less, Machine, Mesoscale, Numerical.

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Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research Forum (TCORF)/Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference (IHC); Lakeland, Florida; March 4-8, 2024
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Hanne Mauriello($10,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Tropical Cyclone Operations, Hurricane Season, Academic, Challenges, Federal, Forecasting, IHC, Observing, Operational, Warning.

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Collaborative Research: Understanding the Turbulent Dynamics of Convective Bursts and Tropical Cyclone Intensification Using Large Eddy Simulations and High-Order Numerics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephen R Guimond($209,402), Hampton University, Hampton
Key terms: Rapid Intensification, Tropical Cyclones, Convective, Core, Cycle, Difficult, Dynamics, Energy, Hurricane, Intensity, Model, Storms, Training, Turbulent.

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Development of a Physics-Data Driven Surface Flux Parameterization for Flow in Complex Terrain
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Marco G Giometto($523,860), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Physics-informed Neural Network, Complex Terrain, Physics-informed Neural, Surface Fluxes, Weather Forecasting, Ability, Accurate, Assessment, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Climate, Database, Enable, Energy, Exchange, Has, Mass, Model, Models, Momentum, Observations, Sparse, Task.

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Differentiating Cyclogenesis with and without Large Amplitude Mesoscale Gravity Waves: Implications for Rapidly Varying Heavy Precipitation and Gusty Winds
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael L Kaplan($333,854), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Atmospheric Gravity Waves, Mid-upper Tropospheric, Numerical Modeling, Assess, Cyclogenesis, Cyclone, Cyclones, Developing, Evolution, Initial, Mid-upper, Observations, Potential, Simulations, Theory, Wind.

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Advancing Understanding of Super-Coarse and Giant Dust Particles via Novel Measurements of Emission and Transport
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jasper F Kok($702,104), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Diffusive And Horizontal, Horizontal Advective Transport, Weather And Climate, Dust Particle, Dust Particles, Scg Dust, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Conundrum, Diameters, Emission, Flux, Giant, Measured, Microns, Processes, Sizes, Theory, Vertical.

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Collaborative Research: Understanding the Influence of Turbulent Processes on the Spatiotemporal Variability of Downslope Winds in Coastal Environments
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Charles Jones($897,671), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: 50m Grid Spacing, Representing Lee Slope, Slope Wind Structure, 50m Grid, Downslope Windstorms, Numerical Simulations, Santa Barbara, Sundowner Winds, California, Coastal, Conditions, Experiment, LES, Mechanisms, Model, Observations, Processes, SWEX, Terrain, Weather, Wrf-km.

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AGS-PRF: The Effect of Carbon-Dioxide (CO2) Ramping Rate on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and its Coupled Climate Implications
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2025; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Camille Hankel($202,000), Hankel, Camille, Cambridge
Key terms: Northern North Atlantic, Co2 Increase, Conveyor Belt, Heat Transport, Western Europe, AMOC, CESM, Climate, Collapse, Consequence, Dense, Evidence, Happens, Has, Hence, Ice, Magnitude, Northward, Ocean, Rate, Simulations, Sinking, Tipping, Water, Weakening.

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AGS-PRF: Understanding Compound Heat Wave-Wildfire Events in the Western United States: Large-Scale Meteorology, Remote Climate Influences, and Climate Model Simulations
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Raymond Sukhdeo($202,000), Sukhdeo, Raymond, Davis
Key terms: Wave And Wildfire, Compound Heat, Heat Wave, Heat Waves, Assess, Climate, Co-occurring, Conditions, Examine, Expected, Future, Growing, Large-scale, Models, Prof, Regional, Remote, Western, Wildfires.

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AGS-PRF: Triple Oxygen Isotope Investigations of Organic Aerosol Oxidation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Daniel Crocker($100,000), Crocker, Daniel, Somerville
Key terms: Atmospheric Oxidation, Optical Properties, Organic Aerosol, Oxidation Pathways, Chemistry, OA, Sources, Students.

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AGS-PRF: Improved Estimates of Southern California Precipitation Extremes through Model/Proxy Synthesis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Julie Edwards($202,000), Edwards, Julie, Tucson
Key terms: Effective Infrastructure Planning, Historical Weather Observations, Observations And Climate, Planning And Water, Atmospheric Rivers, Combine Tree-ring, Distinct Climate, Extreme Precipitation, Extreme Rainfall, Northern California, Southern California, Water Management, Weather Observations, Ars, Challenge, Creates, Drive, Focus, Has, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Range, Reconstructions, Region, Resources, Simulations, Time, Tree-ring, Width.

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AGS-PRF: The Mechanism and Atmospheric Impact of the Peroxy Radicals (RO2) Self-Reaction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Sara E Murphy($100,000), Murphy, Sara Edinger, Pasadena
Key terms: Ir Action Spectroscopy, Organic Peroxy Radical, Peroxy Radical Self-reaction, Peroxy Radical Structure, Proceed Via, Radical Self-reaction, Tetroxide Intermediate, Decomposition, Energetics, Outreach, Radicals, Tasks, Theoretical.

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AGS-PRF: Developing Data-Driven Methods for Predicting Extreme Events Under Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Dhruvit Patel($202,000), Patel, Dhruvit, Washington
Key terms: Climate Model, Climate Models, Climate Simulations, Computational Intensity, Computationally Intensive, Future Climate, Weather Extremes, Atmospheric, Capable, Capturing, Conditions, Developing, Ensembles, Frequency, Generate, Hassanzadeh, Historical, Look, Methods, NN, Nns, Severity, Simple, Simulated, Solution, Spectral, Statistics, Times, Trained, Training.

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AGS-PRF: Extending the Applicability of Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (MOST)-based Surface Layer Parameterizations to Complex Surfaces in Earth System Models (ESMs)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Tyler S Waterman($100,000), Waterman, Tyler Steven, Durham
Key terms: Surface Exchange Relations, Weather And Climate, Atmospheric Model, Stiperski Relations, Ability, Anisotropy, Broad, Deviations, Examine, Five, Implementation, LES, Models, Moisture, NEON, Point-based, Predict, Ready, Schemes, Sites, Towers, Turbulence.

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AGS-PRF: A Unified Conceptual Model for the Development of Near-Surface Rotation in Squall Lines
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Matthew C Brown($100,000), Brown, Matthew C, Norman
Key terms: Squall Lines, Convective, Does, Has, Low-level, Nstorm, Qlcss, Referred, Rotation, Tornadoes, Winds.

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AGS-PRF: Quantifying the Dynamic and Thermodynamic Mechanisms and Response to Climate Change of Thunderstorm Precipitation in the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Dmitri A Kalashnikov($100,000), Kalashnikov, Dmitri Alexander, Vancouver
Key terms: Dynamic And Thermodynamic, Thunderstorm Precipitation, Thunderstorm-related Precipitation, Climate, Drivers, Factors, Fellowship, Future, Lightning, Observed, Postdoctoral, Projected, Thunderstorm-related, Thunderstorms, Western.

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SHINE: The Evolution of Coronal Dimmings and Their Relationship to Eruptive Phenomena
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Larisza D Krista($223,476), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Cme Evolution, Cme Morphology, Interplanetary Space, Magnetic Field, Solar Wind, Catalog, Coronal, Dimming, Dimmings, Geomagnetic, Observatory, Properties, Structure, Students.

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Conference Support for the Haleakala Neutron Monitor Workshop; Honolulu, Hawaii; January 2025
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Veronica Bindi($36,797), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Haleakala Summit, Neutron Monitor, Atmospheric, Bring, Cosmic, Hawaii, Held, Interactions, Monitors, Participants, Plenary, Sessions, Solar, Workshop.

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SHINE: Measuring the Coronal Magnetic Field through the Spectropolarimetric Signatures of the Unsaturated Hanle Effect in the Neutral Helium (He I) 1083.0 nm Line
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Momchil E Molnar($394,601), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Momchil E Molnar($394,601), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Solar Corona, CME, Code, Coronal, Hanle, Helium, Line, Measuring, Modeling, Students, Sun, Sun’s, Write.

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MRI Track 1: Development of Wide-band High-resolution Imaging Spectro-Polarimetric Explorer (WHISPER) for Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Hans-Peter Doerr($480,099), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Photosphere And Chromosphere, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Telescope, Undergraduate Students, BBSO, Continue, Facility, GST, High-resolution, Image, Increase, Instrument, Observations, Optical, Spectral, Sun, Suns, WHISPER.

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Collaborative Research: The Role of Supra-arcade Downflows on Energy Transfer in Solar Flares
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Sijie Yu($172,015), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
2. Xiaocan Li($103,671), Dartmouth College, Hanover
3. Fan Guo($73,720), New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos
4. Xiaoyan Xie($335,621), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Flare Alt Regions, Energy Release, Energy Transfer, Particle Simulations, Solar Flares, Space Weather, Viewing Perspectives, Aims, Characteristics, Compare, Dynamics, Emissions, Energetic, Explore, Fans, MHD, Models, Observations, Perform, Rarely, Sads, Statistical.

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Unveiling Dynamics of Coronal Magnetic Field and Nonthermal Electrons in Solar Flares With Microwave Imaging Spectroscopy and 3D Modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Gelu M Nita($243,905), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Coronal Magnetic Field, Near Solar Flares, Particles Near Solar, Modeling Tools, Acceleration, Datasets, Heating, Models, Nonthermal, Obtained, Plasma, Spatial.

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Collaborative Research: Simulations, Theory and Observations of Plasma Turbulence and Heating Found in Solar Chromosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Meers Oppenheim($517,046), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Juan Martinez Sykora($105,935), Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field
Key terms: Nasa Solar, Heating, Models, Observations, Plasma, Simulations.

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Collaborative Research: Underpinning the Tempo-Spatial Structures of Elementary Bursts with High-Resolution High-Cadence Observations of Solar Flares
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jiong Qiu($303,253), Montana State University, Bozeman
2. Vasyl Yurchyshyn($295,673), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Flare Elementary Bursts, Hard X-ray Burst, Imaging And Spectroscopic, Spectroscopic Flare Observations, X-ray Burst Observations, Energy Release, Flare Atmosphere, Hard X-ray, Heating Mechanisms, Magnetic Energy, Magnetic Environment, Multiple Wavelengths, Solar Flares, Spatial Scales, X-ray Burst, Below, Conversion, High-cadence, High-resolution, Observed, Radiation, Stored, Structures, Temporal.

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SHINE: Active Longitudes: Window in the Dynamo?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Nicholas A Featherstone($582,399), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Coronal Mass Ejections, Magnetic Field Strength, Velocity And Magnetic, Constrain Models, Numerical Simulations, Solar Dynamo, Convection, GONG, Maps, Predictions, Sun, Sun’s.

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Laboratory Characterization of Co-Propagating Alfven Wave Interactions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Mel Abler($589,888), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Interactions And Compare, Parker Solar Probe, Laboratory Experiments, Solar Wind, Behavior, Co-propagating, Dynamics, Efforts, Energy, Imbalanced, Inform, Moving, Plasma, Precisely, Processes, Sun, Turbulence, Wave-wave, Waves.

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The Role of Alfven Wave Reflection and Absorption in Heating Coronal Holes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Sayak Bose($573,957), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Alfven Wave Absorption, Alfven Wave Reflection, Corona And Acceleration, Experimentally Validated Model, Coronal Holes, Coronal Modeling, Solar Corona, Solar Wind, Wave Energy, Additional, Andor, Collisions, Contribution, Degrees, Deposited, Experiments, Heating, Increase, Physics, Plasma, Significantly, Simulations, Surface, Temperature.

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SHINE: Origin and Evolution of Compressible Fluctuations in the Solar Wind and Their Role in Solar Wind Heating and Acceleration
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Anna Tenerani($468,460), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Global Solar Wind, Solar Wind Model, Wave-driven Solar Wind, Compressible Fluctuations, Wave-driven Solar, Wind Models, Dynamics, Effects, Evolution, Heating, Interactions, Investigating, Kinetic, Leads, Machine, Methods, Objectives, Physics, Plasma, Properties, Radial, Space, Turbulence, Turbulent.

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The Eleventh (11th) Coronal Loops Workshop; Tenerife, Spain; June 25-28, 2024
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Craig D Johnston($15,000), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Coronal Loops Workshop, De, Discuss, Has, June, Observations, Participation, Processes, Solar, Students, Th, Topics, Travel.

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SHINE: Solar Energetic Particles Mediating Interplanetary Shocks Close to the Sun
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Athanasios Kouloumvakos($186,527), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Earth’s Orbit, Au, Coronal, Distances, Earth’s, Energetic, Observations, PSP, Particles, SEP, Shock, Shocks, Solar, Solo, Spacecraft, Sun.

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Collaborative Research: GEM: Modeling Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Current Interactions with Submarine Cables
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Shibaji Chakraborty($199,912), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
2. Shibaji Chakraborty($199,912), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
3. Michael Hartinger($49,697), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Extreme Space Weather, Geomagnetically Induced Currents, Global Internet Traffic, Induce Geomagnetically Induced, Induced Underwater Geoelectric, Produce Hazardous Voltages, Underwater Geoelectric Fields, Various Geomagnetic Disturbances, Disaster Management, Earth's Surface, Policy Development, Risk Assessment, Submarine Cable, Submarine Cables, Aims, Beneath, Bodies, Characterize, Critical, Gefs, Gics, Gmds, Insights, Ionospheric, Magnetospheric, Model, Potential, Solar, Water.

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Conference: Advancing Studies of Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Using Commercial Suborbital Vehicles; Paso Robles, CA, November 2024
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Dianne J DeTurris($50,000), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
Key terms: Reusable Suborbital Vehicles, Space Weather, Upper Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Balloons, Discussions, In-situ, Innovative, MLT, Missions, Opportunities, Potential, Program, Region, Workshop.

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FDSS Track 1: Expansion and Integration of Space Physics at the University of Delaware
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Bennett A Maruca($299,812), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Phd Programs, Space Physics, Space Weather, Delaware, Development, FDSS, Geospace, Graduate, Hire, Plasma, Solar, UD.

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FDSS Track 1: Integrating Research and Education in Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Atmosphere Coupling at Clemson University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Jens Oberheide($298,760), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Space Weather, Education, FDSS, Generation, Geospace, Hire, Leaders, Programs, Undergraduate.

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FDSS Track 2: Ionospheric Space Weather Faculty Line at the University of Massachusetts Lowell
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Supriya Chakrabarti($300,000), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Space Weather, Aerospace, Create, Departments, Engineering, FDSS, Geospace, Programs.

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Collaborative Research: GEM: The Electrodynamic Properties of Meso-scale Auroral Forms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Dogacan S Ozturk($228,262), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Jeremiah W Johnson($73,733), University of New Hampshire, Durham
3. Stephen Kaeppler($201,941), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Distinct Meso-scale Auroral, Meso-scale Auroral Forms, Morphologically Distinct Meso-scale, Space Weather Almanac, All-sky Images, Distinct Meso-scale, Electrodynamic Properties, Meso-scale Auroral, Self-semi-supervised Algorithms, All-sky, Causing, Distributed, Energy, Occurrence, Optical, Processes, Program, Representations, Self-semi-supervised, Sequences, Sets, Students, Visual.

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AGU Chapman Conference on Particle Precipitation: Drivers, Properties, and Impacts on Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere (AIM) Coupling; Melbourne, Australia; February-2025
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Sadie S Elliott($50,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Aim Dynamics, Chapman Conference, Space Weather, Ability, Activity, Atmosphere, Atmosphere-ionosphere-magnetosphere, Atmospheric, Bring, Capture, Communication, Coupling, Drivers, EPP, Future, Has, Knowledge, Magnetospheric, Models, Observations, Theme, Via, View.

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RAPID: Collecting Perishable Critical Infrastructure Operational Data for May 2024 Space Weather Events
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Edward J Oughton($84,999), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Critical Infrastructure Operators, Extreme Space Weather, Space Weather Hazards, Transmission And Satellite, Electricity Transmission, Satellite Networks, Decisions, Ii, Information, National, Operational, Perishable, Program, RAPID, Security, Society.

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FDSS Track 1: A New Paradigm for Faculty Development in Geospace Science at Georgia Tech
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Morris B Cohen($300,000), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Space Weather, Departments, FDSS, Faculty, Geospace, Hiring, Undergraduate.

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FDSS Track 2: Building a Space Physics Program at the University of Texas at Arlington
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Ramon E Lopez($297,959), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Space Physics, Space Weather, Course, Create, Education, FDSS, Geospace, Graduate, UTA, Undergraduate.

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Space Weather Workshop in Boulder, Colorado; April 2024
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Hanne Mauriello($35,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Space Weather Workshop, Identifying, Meeting, NOAA, NSF, Operations, Participation, Priority, Student.

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Coordinated Cosmic-Ray Observation System Conference, July 2024 in Lincoln, Nebraska
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Trenton Franz($59,123), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Space Weather, Atmospheric, High-energy, Hydrology, Multiple, Neutron, Neutrons, Workshop.

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ANSWERS: Dynamics and Impacts of Electrons and Ions in the Earth’s Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Liang Wang($821,262), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Electron And Ion, Nsf-funded Space Weather, Predicting Space Weather, Space Weather Underground, Educator Training, Electric Driving, K-12 Stem, Magnetotail Reconnection, Nsf-funded Space, Power Grid, Upper Atmosphere, Collaborate, Collaboration, Complex, Coupled, Coupling, Dynamics, Earth’s, Engaging, Interactions, Investigate, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Model, Modeling, Plasma, Streamers.

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Collaborative Research: GEM--How Upstream Solar Wind Conditions Determine the Properties of the Foreshock Backstreaming Ions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Kun Zhang($271,096), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Freshly Reflected Ions, Solar Wind Conditions, Upstream Solar Wind, Bow Shock, Magnetic Field, Space Weather, Acceleration, Counter-streaming, Distributions, Early-career, Earth, Etc, Foreshock, Incident, Model, Properties, Reflection, Simulations.

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FDSS: Implementing an Interdisciplinary Space Physics Program at Arizona State University
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2019; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Katrina Bossert($1,488,347), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: 5-year Fdss, Diverse Student, Faculty Hire, Space Physics, ASU, Asus, Collaboration, Commitment, Emphasis, Enable, Existing, First-generation, Future, Generation, Has, Interdisciplinary, Leaders, Mentoring, Population, Public, Reach, STEM, Solar, Strong, Students.

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FDSS Track 2: Building Solar-Terrestrial Physics Capacity at Bates College
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Jeffrey S Oishi($296,665), Bates College, Lewiston
Key terms: Solar Physics, Bates, FDSS, Geospace, Maine, Space, Training, Undergraduate.

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MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Time-of-Flight Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor for Urban Air Pollution and Wildfire at Northern High Latitudes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2024; Program: Special Initiatives

1. William R Simpson($702,252), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Cold And Dark, Urban Air Pollution, Air Quality, Boreal Forest, Dark Conditions, Acquisition, Aerosol, Affected, Alaska, Emission, Fairbanks, Instruments, School, Secondary, Smoke, Students, Sulfur.

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EMBRACE-AGS-Seed: Decadal Trends of Atmospheric Ethane - Building Capacity for Trace Gas Analysis and Modeling at Portland State University
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Andrew Rice($200,000), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Ethane And Methane, Atmospheric Ethane, Historic Ethane, Air, Atmosphere, Capacity, Collected, Concentrations, Gas, Gases, Isotopes, Natural, OGI, Oregon, SEED, Sources.

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EMBRACE-AGS-Growth: Compounding Extremes--Trends in, Links among, and Impacts of Marine Heatwaves, Human Heat Stress, and Heavy Precipitation in the Southeast United States
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Shawn M Milrad($376,369), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Humid Heat Stress, Compound Extremes, Heavy Precipitation, Adjacent, Analysis, Climates, Frequency, Human, Increased, Index, Intensity, Land, Mechanisms, Mhws, Social, Southeast, Trends, Vulnerability, Vulnerable.

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EMBRACE-AGS-Seed: Quantification of Halogen Emission Impacts on Atmospheric Oxidation Rates in Urban Atmospheres
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Demetrios Pagonis($199,965), Weber State University, Ogden
Key terms: Salt Lake City, Atmospheric Chemistry, Halogen Emissions, Particulate Matter, Airshed, Bromine, Chlorine, Mission, Oxidation, Public, Quantify, Radical-initiated, Region, Regional, Students, Time, Undergraduate, Undergraduates, Utah, Weber.

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EMBRACE-AGS-Growth: Diagnosing Kinematic Processes Responsible for Precipitation Distributions in Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2024; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Joshua B Wadler($374,070), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Cyclone Maximum Sustained, Diabatic Heating Profiles, Sustained Wind Speed, Tropical Cyclone Maximum, Vertical Wind Shear, Precipitation Modes, Rising Air, Tropical Cyclones, Airborne, Based, Clouds, Convection, Differing, Environments, Examine, Kinematic, Lead, Model, Perturbations, Radar, Rainfall, Storm, Structure, Student, Thermodynamic, Undergraduate.

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Workshop on Bioaerosols in the Earth System; Fort Collins, Colorado; February 2025
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: Symbiosis Infection & Immunity

1. Kathleen C Weathers($98,597), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Bioaerosols, Co-chairs, Ecology, Environmental, Findings, Gaps, Knowledge, Serve, Workshop.

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Collaborative Research: DASI Track 2: Deployment and Operations of the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) Personal Space Weather Station Network
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Christian A Zorman($88,176), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
2. Travis Atkison($165,476), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
3. Gareth Perry($180,225), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
4. Nathaniel A Frissell($210,124), University of Scranton, Scranton
Key terms: Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances, Amateur Radio, Geomagnetic Storms, Ham Radio, Psws Network, Solar Flares, Space Weather, Capable, Continent, DASI, Deployed, Developed, Enable, Geospace, HF, Hamsci, Has, Outreach, Participation, Program, Stations, Transmissions.

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Collaborative Research: DASI Track 2--A Distributed Meteor Radar and Optical Network in South America
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Jonathan J Makela($197,498), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Asti Bhatt($187,713), SRI International, Menlo Park
3. Alan Liu($276,085), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Geospace Observations, Chile, Developed, Establish, Imagers, Infrastructure, Instruments, MANGO, Meteor, Network, Optical, Small-scale, South, Waves.

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Conference Support for the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network Workshop 2025; Roanoke, Virginia; June 2025
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2025; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Kevin T Sterne($39,750), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Excellent Platform, Graduate Students, Superdarn Collaboration, Superdarn Workshop, Annual, Broad, Collaborations, Conference, Developments, Engineering, Held, International, Network, Observations, Operations, Plasma, Radars, Scheduling, Serves, Sessions, Software, Virginia.

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DASI Track 1: Student-Led Development of an Advanced yet Low-cost Multi-Constellation, Triple Frequency Ionospheric Scintillation and Electron Content Monitor
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2024; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Fabiano Rodrigues($416,131), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Capabilities, Commercial, Create, Dense, Effort, GNSS, Geospace, Global, Ionospheric, Monitor, Monitors, Networks, Program, Scintillation, TEC.

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Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Measuring Photoelectron Distributions and Fluxes in the Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2024; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Philip J Erickson($398,524), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. William J Longley($388,770), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Photoelectron Observations Available, Plasma Line Observations, Rare And Difficult, Resolution Plasma Line, Arecibo Radar, Observations Available, Photoelectron Distribution, Significantly Increase, Asymmetries, Create, Created, Energy, Experiments, Ionosphere, Photoelectrons, Process, Unique.

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Collaborative Research: DASI Track 1--AUtonomous Remote geospace Observation and Research Array (AURORA)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2024; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Michelle Salzano($237,873), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
2. Shane E Coyle($1,234,570), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: High-latitude And Polar, Geospace Observation, Polar Regions, AURORA, Arrays, Autonomous, Early-career, Ground-based, Instruments, Low-power, Observations.

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Research Infrastructure: SuperMAG--New Science Capabilities and Continued Operation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2024; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Jesper W Gjerloev($204,303), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Broad Range, Magnetic Field, Access, Dataset, Derived, Has, Magnetometers, Products, Service, Stations, Students, Supermag, Users, Validated, Worldwide.

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The Incoherent Scatter Radar Community and Research Workshop; San Diego, California; June 2024
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2024; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. William J Longley($34,300), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter, CEDAR, Diverse, Geospace, ISR, Presence, Student, Students, Workshop.

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Travel Grant: Enabling Faculty at Under-Resourced Primarily Undergraduate Institutions to Attend the 2024 Fall American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2024; Program: XC-Crosscutting Activities Pro

1. Kristen St John($100,000), James Madison University, Harrisonburg
Key terms: AGU, Attend, Conferences, Faculty, Fall, Initiate, Program, Student, Teaching, Travel, Under-resourced.