Author: Heather Powers

New Funding

James DeGraffJames DeGraff (EGM/EPSSI) is the Principal Investigator on a research and development project that has received $35,000 from the US Geological Survey.

This project is titled “Keweenaw Fault Geometry, Related Structures, and Slip Kinematics Along the Lac La Belle-Mohawk Segment, Michigan.” Chad Deering (EGM) and Aleksey Smirnov (EGM) are co-PI’s on this one-year project.

EPSSI Seminar Today

Manish Kumar Shrivastava, an atmospheric scientist at the Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will present New Research Frontiers in Secondary Organic Aerosols: Connecting Atmospheric Chemistry, Clouds, Radiation and Human Health” at 4:05 p.m. today (Sept. 24) in M&M U113.

Shrivastava’s seminar is sponsored by the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences Institute.

New Funding

Simon CarnSimon Carn (GMES/EPSSI) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $27,883 research and development grant from the University of Maryland-The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The project is titled “Extending NASA’s EOS SO2 and NO2 Data Records from Auro/OMI to Suomi NPP/OMPS.” This is the first year of a potential three-year project totaling $96,614.

Simon Carn (GMES) and Michigan Tech alumna Lizette Rodriguez Iglesias, PhD ’07, are Co/PIs on the project “RAPID: Lethal Pyroclastic Density Current (PDC) Generation and Transport at Fuego Volcano.” This is a one-year project.

In Print

Raymond ShawRaymond Shaw (Physics/EPSSI) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $185,703 research and development grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Will Cantrell (Physics) is Co-PI on the project “Laboratory Studies of the Effect of Turbulence on Aerosol-Cloud Interactions.”
This is the first year of a possible three-year project potentially totaling $719,035.