Earth and Atmospheric Science

Project Highlights

 
FY2022

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Project Type Project Status
A New Shallow Cumulus Cloud Detection Algorithm from Satellite and Ground-Based Data 22-FS-010 Jingjing Tian Feasibility Study Final
Advancing Carbon Cycle Forecasts with Global Models of Soil Chemistry 22-ERD-019 Eric Slessarev Exploratory Research Continuing
Electrochemical Upcycling of Waste Cement: High-Performance Cement Production and Air Carbon Dioxide Removal 21-ERD-050 Jiaqi Li Exploratory Research Continuing
Enhanced Tunnel Detection with Multiple Sensor Technologies 22-FS-042 Whitney Kirkendall Feasibility Study Continuing
Enhancing Precipitation Predictions with the Cloud-Associated Parameterizations Testbed using Artificial Intelligence 22-ERD-013 Hsi-Yen Ma Exploratory Research Continuing
Fighting Fire with Fire: Can Traditional Native American Burning Practices Help Reduce Devastating Wildfires and Increase Soil Carbon Storage? 22-LW-053 Susan Zimmerman Lab-Wide Continuing
From Microbes to the Earth System – Upscaling Microbial Community Dynamics to Macro-scale Soil Carbon Models 21-ERD-045 Katerina Georgiou Exploratory Research Continuing
High Accuracy at Low Cost: Using Machine Learning to Emulate the Department of Energy's Global Cloud-Resolving Climate Model 22-ERD-052 Peter Caldwell Exploratory Research Continuing
High Altitude Disturbance: An Integrated Experimental and Modeling Approach to Quantifying Turbulence and Aerosols at Hypersonic Flight Height 21-ERD-007 Sonia Wharton Exploratory Research Continuing
Improved Seismic Monitoring for National and Energy Security with Earth Models from Full Waveform Inversion 20-ERD-008 Arthur Rodgers Exploratory Research Final
Microbe-Mediated Effects of Enhanced Rock Weathering on Soil Organic Carbon Storage 22-LW-022 Noah Sokol Lab-Wide Continuing
Multiscale Wildfire Simulation Framework and Remote Sensing 22-ERD-008 Qi Tang Exploratory Research Continuing
Opening the Black Box: Compound-Specific Radiocarbon Analysis to Determine the Drivers of Soil Carbon Persistence 21-ERD-021 Karis McFarlane Exploratory Research Continuing
Understanding Urban and Wildland Fire Dynamics 20-ERD-034 Jeffrey Mirocha Exploratory Research Final
Warming Response of Regional Deep Soil Organic Carbon 21-LW-054 Kimber Moreland Lab-Wide Final