Atmospheric Science Program

Science Team Membership

November 4, 2004
(With subsequent updates)

We are pleased to announce the list of Science Team projects to be supported based on the recent peer review and programmatic review of lab proposals and grant applications received in response to the DOE program announcement for the Atmospheric Science Program. Please see a previous letter for details of the process and summary of selection results.

On the basis of these reviews, thirty-two research projects and five science support projects have been recommended for immediate funding. In the process evaluating projects for funding we have negotiated some revisions in budget and/or scope, to more closely align specific projects with programmatic needs and objectives and to meet our overall budget constraints. Although we wish we could have selected additional highly qualified projects for immediate funding, we are pleased with the resulting suite of projects and investigators.

The list of the FY 2005 science projects is appended below. Also listed are the science support projects that will provide support for these activities, mainly in conjunction with the field measurements component of the program. The project titles given are those of the original proposals and applications; as noted above, some projects have been reduced in scope. Two of these science team projects are collaborative and involve separate funding for collaborators in different institutions. Also, some projects may have additional principal or co-principal investigators and/or funded collaborators, not listed here. Links lead to presentations (Microsoft Powerpoint or Adobe pdf) at the January, 2005, ASP Science Team meeting.

As announced earlier, there remain quite a few highly rated proposals and applications for which funds are not available at this time. We remain somewhat hopeful that it will be possible to fund some additional projects from this deferred category.

We do very much appreciate all authors, for the efforts expended in preparation of so many outstanding proposals and applications. We also very much appreciate all the reviewers who provided careful, thorough, thoughtful, and timely reviews, so essential to the selection process.

The following is the list of science and science support projects that are either already funded or recommended for immediate funding. We look forward to working with this outstanding group of investigators as we move forward in advancing understanding of the processes and properties of atmospheric aerosols necessary to describe their radiative forcing of climate.

Science Team Projects ( 32 )  

Michael Alexander, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "Proton Transfer Reaction Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer (PTR-ITMS): Next Generation Aircraft Instrumentation for Gas Phase Organic Analysis"

Patrick Arnott, Desert Research Institute, and Patrick Sheridan, NOAA CMDL: "Aerosol Light Absorption and Climate: Quantification by the Photoacoustic Method"

Cynthia Atherton, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "Atmospheric Formation, Transformation, and Radiative Forcing of Acid-Catalyzed Secondary Organic Aerosols"

Carl Berkowitz and Larry Berg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "The Effects of Cloud Processes on the Optical Properties of Aerosols"

Peter Daum, Brookhaven National Laboratory: "Aerosol Cloud Interactions: Field Studies and Interpretation"

Paul Davidovits, Boston College: "Effects of Soot Morphology and Chemistry on Particle Hygroscopic and Optical Properties"

Christopher Doran and Jim Barnard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "Field Studies of the Evolution of Aerosols Downwind of an Urban Area: The Roles of Black Carbon and Meteorological Processes on Aerosol Radiative Effects"

Jerome Fast, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "Synthesis of Field Observations and Multi-Scale Modeling of Aerosol Evolution and Its Impact on Radiative Forcing from Urban to Regional Scales"

Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, UC-Irvine: "Impacts on CCN Properties of Nitrate Aerosols Due to Exposure to Irradiated VOC-NOx Mixtures"

Jeffrey Gaffney, Argonne National Laboratory: "Determining Aerosol Mean Residence Times and Black Carbon Washout Rates with Natural Radionuclides and Isotopic Signatures"

Steven Ghan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "Superparameterization of Aerosol Transport, Transformation, and Removal by Clouds"

Mary Gilles, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: "Soft X-ray Spectromicroscopy of Black Carbon Aerosols"

Chris Hostetler, NASA Langley: "Characterizing Aerosol Distributions and Optical Properties using Airborne Active and Passive Remote Sensing"

James Hudson, Desert Research Institute, "CCN Spectral Measurements"

Lawrence Kleinman, Brookhaven National Laboratory: "Field Studies on the Life Cycle of Aerosols and Their Direct Radiative Impacts"

Rao Kotamarthi, Argonne National Laboratory: "Process-Scale Modeling of ASP Field Measurements"

Alexander Laskin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "Laboratory Studies of Optical and Hygroscopic Properties of Field Collected Atmospheric Aerosols"

Yin-Nan Lee, Brookhaven National Laboratory: "Characterization of Aerosol Organic Matter: Detection, Formation and Optical and Radiative Effects"

Sasha Madronich, NCAR: "Impacts of Secondary Organics on the Evolution of Climate-Relevant Aerosol Properties During Lagrangian Aerosol Plume Experiments"

Nancy Marley, Argonne National Laboratory: "Aerosol Precursors and Aerosol Instrumentation: Field Measurements and Method Development"

Robert McGraw, Brookhaven National Laboratory: "New Particle Formation: Mechanisms and Influence on Atmospheric Aerosol Properties"

Peter McMurry, University of Minnesota, and Jim Smith, National Center for Atmospheric Research: "Nucleation and Growth of Atmospheric Aerosols"

Mario Molina, MIT, Charles Kolb, Aerodyne, and Jose Jimenez, University of Colorado: "Characterization of Fine Particulate Matter (PM) and Secondary PM Precursor Gases in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area"

John Ogren and Betsy Andrews, NOAA CMDL: "Cloud-Driven Changes in Aerosol Optical Properties"

Mikhail Ovtchinnikov and Dick Easter, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "Aerosol Processing by Clouds: Model Evaluation and Parameterization Development"

Suzanne Paulson, UCLA: "Black Carbon and Organic Carbon Aerosol Mass and Optical Properties: Comparability and Causes of Uncertainties"

Stephen Schwartz and Douglas Wright, Brookhaven National Laboratory: "Modeling Aerosol Processes in the DOE Atmospheric Science Program"

Arthur Sedlacek, Brookhaven National Laboratory: "Measurement of Aerosol Absorption Using Photothermal Interferometry"

John Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology: "Mechanisms of Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosols and Implications for Global Radiative Forcing"

Jian Wang, Brookhaven National Laboratory: "Fast Measurements of Aerosol Size Distribution, Hygroscopicity, and Volatility for Aircraft Deployment"

Judith Weinstein-Lloyd, SUNY-Old Westbury: "Secondary Aerosol: Precursors and Formation Mechanisms"

Paul Ziemann, Roger Atkinson, and Janet Arey, UC-Riverside: "Laboratory Studies of Processing of Carbonaceous Aerosols by Atmospheric Oxidants"

Peter Lunn
Program Director for Atmospheric Science
Climate Change Research Division
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