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FY2023

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Research Category Project Type Project Status
From Microbes to the Earth System – Upscaling Microbial Community Dynamics to Macro-scale Soil Carbon Models 21-ERD-045 Katerina Georgiou Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Final
Taming the Wild West: Assessing Impacts-Relevant Climate Data Products 23-ERD-050 Paul Ullrich Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Using Novel Measurements of the Diurnal Cycle to Improve the Precision of 40-year Atmospheric Temperature Trends 23-FS-009 Stephen Po-Chedley Earth and Atmospheric Science Feasibility Study Continuing
Enhancing Precipitation Predictions with the Cloud-Associated Parameterizations Testbed using Artificial Intelligence 22-ERD-013 Hsi-Yen Ma Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Final
Developing a Predictive Physics-Based Modeling Framework for Biomass Combustion in Typical Wildfire Conditions 23-LW-007 Chiara Saggese Earth and Atmospheric Science Lab-Wide Continuing
High Altitude Disturbance: An Integrated Experimental and Modeling Approach to Quantifying Turbulence and Aerosols at Hypersonic Flight Height 21-ERD-007 Sonia Wharton Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Final
Electrochemical Upcycling of Waste Cement: High-Performance Cement Production and Air Carbon Dioxide Removal 21-ERD-050 Jiaqi Li Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
High Resolution Chronology of the Solar System 23-ERD-003 Lars Borg Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Advancing Carbon Cycle Forecasts with Global Models of Soil Chemistry 22-ERD-019 Katerina Georgiou Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Microbe-Mediated Effects of Enhanced Rock Weathering on Soil Organic Carbon Storage 22-LW-022 Noah Sokol Earth and Atmospheric Science Lab-Wide Final
Reconstructing the Birth Environment of the Solar System 23-LW-015 Quinn Shollenberger Earth and Atmospheric Science Lab-Wide Continuing
Enhanced Tunnel Detection with Multiple Sensor Technologies 22-FS-042 Whitney Kirkendall Earth and Atmospheric Science Feasibility Study Final
Feasibility of Using Fourier Neural Operators for Three-Dimensional Elastic Seismic Simulations 23-FS-021 Qingkai Kong Earth and Atmospheric Science Feasibility Study Final
Fighting Fire with Fire: Can Traditional Native American Burning Practices Help Reduce Devastating Wildfires and Increase Soil Carbon Storage? 22-LW-053 Susan Zimmerman Earth and Atmospheric Science Lab-Wide Final
Multiscale Wildfire Simulation Framework and Remote Sensing 22-ERD-008 Qi Tang Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Opening the Black Box: Compound-Specific Radiocarbon Analysis to Determine the Drivers of Soil Carbon Persistence 21-ERD-021 Karis McFarlane Earth and Atmospheric Science Exploratory Research Final
Accelerated Materials Simulations with Deep Neural Networks 22-ERD-016 Fei Zhou Nuclear Weapons Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Next-Generation Short-Pulse Laser-Driven Neutron Sources for Multimodal Radiography 22-ERD-022 Gerald Williams Nuclear Weapons Science Exploratory Research Continuing
Fission with Exotic Nuclei 21-ERD-001 Nicolas Schunck Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Exploratory Research Final
Putting the Super Back In Supernova 23-LW-044 Maria Anastasiou Nuclear, Chemical, and Isotopic Science and Technology Lab-Wide Continuing