Research Grants
Active Awards
2025 – 2029Ìý Ìý $857,704Ìý Ìý PACE-Science NASA Award # 80NSSC25K0415 (Lead PI): Hyperspectral mapping of ice algae on the Greenland Ice Sheet andÌýpotential feedbacks from aerosol nutrient deposition.
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2023 – 2024Ìý Ìý Ìý$200,000Ìý Ìý Ìý NSF OPPÌý#ÌýÌýArctic System SciencesÌý(Single-PI), RAPID: Impacts of Deposition from Smoke-derived Black Carbon on the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Greater Arctic Cryosphere due to Transport from Record Setting Canadian Wildfires
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2022 – 2027Ìý Ìý $1,303,508Ìý ÌýNSF-CAREER OPP-Ìý(Single PI):ÌýCoastal Antarctic Snow Algae and Light Absorbing Particles: Snowmelt, Climate and Ecosystem Impacts, start date 1/1/2022.
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2022 - 2024Ìý Ìý Ìý$299,922Ìý Ìý ÌýNSF-EAGER Arctic Observing NetworkÌýÌý(Lead-PI): Autonomous retrieval of impurity-laden Arctic sea ice samples and hyperspectral surface properties through innovative robotics
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Previous Awards
2022 – 2023Ìý Ìý $100,000Ìý Ìý ÌýNASA Augmentation to Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition #80NSSC21K1166 (Lead PI): to evaluate BlackSky imagery: Commercial Sensor Evaluation for Detection and Mapping of Snow Algae
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2021 - 2022Ìý Ìý Ìý$149,509Ìý Ìý NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition #80NSSC21K1166 Ìý(Lead-PI): Commercial Sensor Evaluation for Detection and Mapping of Snow Algae
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2020 - 2024Ìý Ìý Ìý$312, 244Ìý Ìý NASA Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Sciences Ìý#80NSSC20K1261Ìý(Institutional PI): Quantifying Impact of Light Absorbing Aerosols upon Sea Ice in the Changing Arctic Climate, start 2020-07-01Ìý
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2020 - 2023Ìý Ìý Ìý$54,867Ìý Ìý Ìý NSF-OPP:Ìý (Institutional-PI), Improving Undergraduate STEM Education, Education Human Research:Ìý‘Polar Space and Place’: Using GIS and Interactive environments to bring Polar science to the classroom.
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2020Ìý Ìý$30,000Ìý Ìý Ìý Washington Water Research CenterÌý(Single-PI):Ìýto study, 'Snow Algae and Black Carbon Contributions to Surface Albedo Reduction of Snow and Glacier Surfaces in the Nooksack River Basin’.
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