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AGS Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 2, 2021 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | July 29, 2024 |
| Award Number: | 2113201 |
| Award Instrument: | Continuing Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Nicholas Anderson
nanderso@nsf.gov (703)292-4715 AGS Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | August 15, 2021 |
| End Date: | July 31, 2026 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $468,134.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $370,127.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2022 = $91,437.00 FY 2023 = $93,564.00 FY 2024 = $95,752.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
201 PRESIDENTS CIR SALT LAKE CITY UT US 84112-9049 (801)581-6903 |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
135 S 1460 E, ROOM 819 Salt Lake City UT US 84112-0101 |
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| NSF Program(s): | FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed |
| Primary Program Source: |
01002223DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002324DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002425DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.050 |
ABSTRACT
This Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) award is for support of the Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL), a mountain-top research station in northwestern Colorado. SPL is a unique, cutting-edge, high-elevation, mid-continental, atmospheric research station. Instruments available at SPL will provide valuable measurements for research focused on aerosol chemical and physical properties; cloud and snow microphysics; atmospheric transformation and transport of mercury; and detection of long-range transported dust and regional wildfire smoke. NSF funding will provide baseline support to sustain atmospheric measurements, and provide quality-controlled data, including quality assessments, metadata, and supporting ancillary information from existing SPL instrumentation to the broader atmospheric science community. Programs to support education and training are part of the proposed effort. The proposal also includes plans to enhance diversity in the atmospheric and related sciences.
The facility infrastructure and an array of fifteen cutting-edge meteorological instruments at the Storm Peak Laboratory serve as a national resource to advance research and research training in high elevation atmospheric science. The laboratory also fosters interdisciplinary research collaboration by hosting intensive field campaigns and field training courses, providing long term measurements of meteorology, clouds, aerosols, snow hydrology, and atmospheric gases. This award will enhance the ability of the broader scientific community to use SPL instruments and the laboratory as a research site through the AGS facility request process.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
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