The Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences Institute (EPSSI) enables its members to offer programs and to pursue research opportunities that are beyond the scope of individual departments.
The Renewal for the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences Institute in 2018 states that the Institute will:
- Support and enable large, multi-PI proposals
- Contribute to the University's research infrastructure enhancement efforts
- Support and oversee the graduate program in Atmospheric Sciences
- Recruit and support graduate students
- Continue its long-standing, successful seminar series
2019-2020
EPSSI's activities in fiscal year 2019-20 are aligned with those stated above as follows (See Appendix C for a list of major expenditures.):
- In the last renewal, EPSSI committed to submission of at least two proposals worth
over one million dollars (see bullet items above). The Institute has already achieved
that goal. There was one such proposal reported on last year’s annual report. There
are three this year that are in the one million dollar range.
- Petra Hüntemeyer: “WoU-MMA: The Southern Wide-Field Gamma-Ray Observatory (SWGO): R&D for a Next-Generation Ground-Based Survey Instrument for VHE GammaRay Astronomy” NSF, $1,292,888.
- Simon Carn: “Tracking volcanic gases from magma reservoir to the atmosphere: Identifying precursors and optimizing models and satellite observations for future major eruptions”, NASA, $1,274,834.
- Raymond Shaw: “Exploring supercooled water as gas and solid interfaces-understanding the mysterious role of dynamic and distorted contact lines”, George Washington University, $988,999.
- The Institute allocated $16,083 for support of graduate students and postdocs (tuition, stipend, and travel to conferences) in this fiscal year. Support for graduate students has been identified as a major issue on campus. EPSSI has this as a priority, especially in summer.
- $8,140 was used for grant matches, cost share, and travel support for faculty. This support enhances competitiveness of proposals.
- $7,000 was used to support release time for developing large proposals. This is directly responsive to a commitment made in EPSSI’s latest renewal.
- EPSSI coordinates one of the longest running, most successful seminar series on campus. In fiscal year 2019-20, the Institute spent $14,692 on it. See Appendix A for a list of the seminar speakers and their affiliations. This expenditure increases Michigan Tech’s name recognition. Also note that the pool of speakers reflects the diversity within geo- and space sciences. Six of the 13 speakers were women
Facts and Figures, Specific to Fiscal Year 2019-2020
The overhead generated by grants associated with EPSSI through the last four quarters (2019-2020) totaled $548,781. [$124,841; $82,530; $92,290; $249,120] This is a five-year high.
There were 36 awarded grants affiliated with EPSSI in this fiscal year. See Appendix B for a complete list. Note that some grants active in this fiscal year have been closed.
Three students submitted fellowship proposals to the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program: Elise Rosky (advised by Cantrell and Shaw), Nel Rodríguez-Sepúlveda (Carn), and Susan Mathai (Mazzoleni). Ten students were awarded funding through the Michigan Space Grant Consortium: Sophie Mueller, Emily Tom, Mitch Timm, Tyler Strauss, Steven Stelly, Elise Rosky, Victoria Nizzi, Isaac Wedig, Collette Sarver, and Grace Ojala.
There are currently six PhD students in the Atmospheric Sciences program, which EPSSI oversees. Two students in the program, Kamal Kant Chandrakar and Corey Packard, graduated in this fiscal year.
Will Cantrell stepped out of the position of director of the Institute. Petra Hüntemeyer was selected as the new director.
Appendix A: Seminar Speakers, Fall 2019
| Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Michelle Hui | NASA Marshall Space Flight Center |
| Maria Val Martin (Honrath Lecture) | Leverhulme Center for Climate Change Mitigation |
| Tracey Holloway | U Wisconsin |
| Min Chen | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Steven Platnick | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Peter Buseck | Arizona State U |
| Yangang Liu | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Minghui Diao | San Jose State U |
| Glenn Ierley | UC San Diego |
| Jiquan Chen | Michigan State U |
| Sarah Horst | Johns Hopkins |
| David Podgorski | U New Orleans |
| Joellen Russell (special seminar, World Water Day) | Arizona |
Appendix B: Awarded proposals affiliated with EPSSI, 2019-2020
| Principal Investigator | Funding Agency | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Cantrell | NSF | Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation in Clouds- A Synergistic Experimental and Simulation Approach |
| Cantrell, Shaw, Mazzoleni | DOE | Laboratory Measurements of Cloud Scavenging of Interstitial Aerosol in a Turbulent Environment |
| Carn | U of Maryland | Advancing NASA OMI SO2 Product: Enabling New Science Analyses, Applications, and Long-term, Multisatellite Monitoring |
| Carn | U of Wisconsin | Use of Direct Broadcast POESS and GOES for Localized Convective Weather Forecasting |
| Carn | NASA | Volcanic SO2 and Ash Products from EPIC Observations |
| Carn | U of Maryland | Extending NASA's EOS SO2 and NO2 data records from Aura/OMI to Suomi NPP/OMPS |
| Carn | NASA | Multi-Decadel Sulfur Dioxide Climatology from Satellite Instruments |
| Carn | NASA | Exploiting high-cadence observations of volcanic eruptions from DSCOVR/EPIC |
| Carn | U of Maryland | Extending NASA’s EOS SO2 and NO2 Data Records from Aura/OMI to Suomi NPP/OMPS |
| Chatterjee, Oommen | NASA | Minerals and Rock Type Mapping Using Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) Data |
| Chatterjee | Global Resource Engg. | Resource modeling and mine planning of metalliferous deposit incorporating geometallurgical parameters |
| Deering | Jet Propulsion Lab | Ground campaign for volcanic CO2 measurements |
| Deering | NSF | Assessing Changes in the State of a Magma Storage System Caldera-forming Eruption Cycles, a Case Study at Taupo Volcanic Zone New Zealand |
| DeGraff, Deering, Smirnov | Dept. of Interior | Keweenaw Fault Geometry, Related Structures, and Slip Kinematics along the Lac La Belle-Mohawk Segment, Michigan |
| DeGraff, Deering, Smirnov | Western MI U. | Bedrock Map Dickinson County Quadrangle and portions of quadrangles Earth MRI project (Carney Lake Felch Foster City Vulcan Waucedah Faithorn and Cunard 7.5 minute Quadrangle) Central UP Michigan |
| Escobar Wolf | NSF | Collaborative Research: Labar dynamics and Monitoring: A multiparametric approach grounded in infrasound |
| Escobar Wolf, Rodriguez-Iglesias, Carn | NSF | Lethal Pyroclastic Density Current Generation and Transport form Combined Column and/or Upper Volcanic Slopes Collapse at Basaltic Fuego Volcano |
| Gierke | NSF | IRES Track III: Coupling Participatory and Hydrological Research for Adapting to Extreme Hydrometeorological Events in Agricultural Communities, El Salavador |
| Hinkel | NSF | Collaborative Research: Causes and Consequences of Catastrophic Thermokarst Lake Drainage in an Evolving Arctic System |
| Hüntemeyer | NSF | Investigating Large Scale Structures and Galactic Plane Morphologies at TeV Energies with the HAWC Observatory |
| Hüntemeyer | NSF | WoU-MMA: Tracing Cosmic-Ray Origin and Transport Using HAWC and Multi-Wavelength Data |
| Kostinski | NSF | Correlated Random Processes in Physics and Radar Meteorology |
| Kulie | NASA | Snowfall in the GPM Era: Assessing GPM Snowfall and Ice Microphysical Retrievers Using Independent Spaceborne and Ground-based Observations |
| Kulie | NASA | Deployment and Maintenance of a Proposed Snowfall Measurement Network to Study GFM Footprint-level Snowfall Variability |
| Mazzoleni, C., Cantrell, Shaw | NSF | MRI: Development of a Water Vapor and Temperature Mapping System to Study Cloud-Turbulence Interactions in the MTU PI-Chamber |
| Mazzoleni, C. | Brechtel Mfg. | Research, Development and Testing of an Aerosol Light Absorption Measurement Device |
| Nemiroff | NASA | Support for Astronomy Picture of the Day |
| Oommen | US State Dept. | Landslide Life-Cycle Monitoring and Failure Prediction Using Satellite Remote SensingDeveloping and Improving Disaster Management Studies Course in India |
| Oommen | U Nebraska | Flood Hazard Map to Water Management & Planning |
| Oommen, Chatterjee | Society of Exploration Geophysicists | Geophysical Investigation to Improve the landslide susceptibility analysis in Kerala India |
| Shaw, Mazzoleni, C. | DOE | Entrainment and aerosol effects on marine boundarylayer clouds: An investigation using ACE-ENA data from HOLODEC G1 Pico and ACTOS |
| Shaw, Cantrell | NSF | Laboratory Studies of the Effect of Turbulence on Aerosol-Cloud Interactions |
| Shaw, Cantrell | Brookhaven National Lab | Simulations to Support Designing a Cloud Chamber for Studies of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions |
| Shaw, Cantrell | NSF | Workshop to explore science opportunities and concepts for a US aerosol-cloud-microphysics research facility |
| Smirnov | NSF | Paleointensity of the Paleoproterozoic Geomagnetic Field as Recorded by Single Silicate Crystals: Testing the "Proterozoic Dipole Low" |
| Smirnov | NSF | Collaborative Research: Geomagnetic Field Strength and Stability Between 500 and 800 Ma: Constraining Inner Core Growth |
Appendix C: Major expenditures
| Category | Expense ($) |
|---|---|
| Student/postdoc support (stipend, tuition, and travel): Adesanya, Anderson, Barbee, Chandrakar, Divisekara, Larsen, Pascaris, Prabhakaran, Tiwari | 16,083 |
| Grant matches / supplements and travel (nonstudent, nonseminar): Kostinski, Fick, Nitz | 8,140 |
| Release time: Shaw (proposal development) | 7,000 |
| Cost share (internal) and Facilities Support: REF-IE, C2E2, TEM maintenance | 23,460 |
| Seminar series |
14,692 |
2018-2019
EPSSI's activities in fiscal year 2018-19 are aligned with those stated above as follows (See Appendix C for a list of major expenditures.):
- Petra Hüntemeyer, a member of the Institute, submitted a $2,306,169 proposal to the Mid-scale Research Infrastructure program at NSF. She was the only investigator at Michigan Tech, but the proposal had five sub-awards (Wisconsin, Rochester (2), Maryland, and Penn State).
- The Institute has spent $28,413 to support graduate students (tuition, stipend, and travel to conferences) in this fiscal year.
- $42,172 was used for grant matches / cost share and travel support for faculty and postdocs.
- $7,500 was used for startup support.
- EPSSI coordinates one of the longest running, most successful seminar series on campus. In fiscal year 2018-19, the Institute spent $18,242 on the seminar series. See Appendix A for a list of the seminar speakers and their affiliations.
Facts and Figures, Specific to Fiscal Year 2018-2019
The overhead generated by grants associated with EPSSI through the last four quarters (2018-2019) totaled $380,159. [$96,253; $64,136; $71,722; $148,048]
There were 36 awarded grants affiliated with EPSSI in this fiscal year. See Appendix B for a complete list. Note that some grants active in this fiscal year have been closed.
Six students submitted fellowship proposals to the Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program: Elise Rosky (advised by Cantrell and Shaw), Eduardo Rodriguez-Feo (Shaw), Sanna J. Mairet (Carn), Chandan Kumar (Chatterjee), Subin Thomas (Shaw), and Susan Mathai (Mazzoleni).
In 2018-19, there were 12 graduate students in the Atmospheric Sciences program, which EPSSI oversees. Neel Desai and Kamal Kant Chandrakar, both advised by Raymond Shaw successfully defended this year. Desai is currently a postdoc at Brookhaven National Lab, and Chandrakar has accepted a position in the Advanced Study Program (a highly competitive, prestigious postdoctoral fellowship) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Appendix A: Seminar Speakers, Fall 2018
| Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| David Gutzler | U New Mexico |
| Manish Kumar Shrivastava | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Sarah Styler | U Alberta |
| David Mecham | U Kansas |
| Paul Shepson (Honrath Lecture) | Stony Brook |
| Patrick Chuang | U California-Santa Cruz |
| Bill Farrand | Space Sciences Institute |
| Chin Wu | U Wisconsin |
| Arthur Sedlacek | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Stephen Techtmann | Michigan Tech |
| Becky Alexander | U Washington |
| Juliana D’Andrilli | Montana State |
Appendix B: Awarded proposals affiliated with EPSSI, 2018-2019
| Principal Investigator | Funding Agency | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Cantrell | NSF | Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation in Clouds- A Synergistic Experimental and Simulation Approach |
| Cantrell | DOE | Laboratory Measurements of Cloud Scavenging of Interstitial Aerosol in a Turbulent Environment |
| Carn | U of Maryland | Advancing NASA OMI SO2 Product: Enabling New Science Analyses, Applications, and Long-term, Multi satellite Monitoring |
| Carn | U of Wisconsin | Use of Direct Broadcast POESS and GOES for Localized Convective Weather Forecasting |
| Carn | NASA | Volcanic SO2 and Ash Products from EPIC Observations |
| Carn | U of Maryland | Extending NASA's EOS SO2 and NO2 data records from Aura/OMI to Suomi NPP/OMPS |
| Carn | NASA | Multi-Decadel Sulfur Dioxide Climatology from Satellite Instruments |
| Carn | NASA | Exploiting high-cadence observations of volcanic eruptions from DSCOVR/EPIC |
| Chatterjee/Oommen | NASA | Minerals and Rock Type Mapping Using Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) Data |
| Chatterjee | US Gypsum Co. | Mining Face Length and Bench Width Calculation and Extraction Volume Estimation Using Optimized Algorithms |
| Deering/McCarty | NASA | Understanding Basaltic Volcanic Processes by Remotely Measuring the Links Between Vegetation Health and Extent, and Volcanic Gas and Thermal Emissions using HyspIRI-like… |
| Deering | NSF | Assessing Changes in the State of a Magma Storage System Caldera-forming Eruption Cycles, a Case Study at Taupo Volcanic Zone New Zealand |
| DeGraff | Dept. of Interior | Keweenaw Fault Geometry, Related Structures, and Slip Kinematics along the Lac La Belle-Mohawk Segment, Michigan |
| Gierke | NATO | Security against geohazards at the major Enguri hydroelectric scheme in Georgia |
| Gierke | NSF | IRES Track III: Coupling Participatory and Hydrological Research for Adapting to Extreme Hydrometeorological Events in Agricultural Communities, El Salavador |
| Hinkel | NSF | Collaborative Research: Causes and Consequences of Catastrophic Thermokarst Lake Drainage in an Evolving Arctic System |
| Hüntemeyer | NSF | Investigating Large Scale Structures and Galactic Plane Morphologies at TeV Energies with the HAWC Observatory |
| Kostinski | NSF | Correlated Random Processes in Physics and Radar Meteorology |
| Kulie | NASA | Snowfall in the GPM Era: Assessing GPM Snowfall and Ice Microphysical Retrievers Using Independent Spaceborne and Ground-based Observations |
| Kulie | NASA | Deployment and Maintenance of a Proposed Snowfall Measurement Network to Study GFM Footprint-level Snowfall Variability |
| Mazzoleni, C. | NSF | MRI: Development of a Water Vapor and Temperature Mapping System to Study Cloud-Turbulence Interactions in the MTU PI-Chamber |
| Mazzoleni, C. | Aerodyne Research, Inc. | BC5-Collaborative Laboratory Study of the Optical Properties and Ice Nuclei Activity of Black Carbon Containing Particles as a Function of Mixing State |
| Mazzoleni, C. | Brechtel Mfg. | Research, Development and Testing of an Aerosol Light Absorption Measurement Device |
| Mazzoleni, L. | NASA | Fellowship, M. Brege |
| Nemiroff | NASA | Support for Astronomy Picture of the Day |
| Oommen | NSF | Landslide Life-Cycle Monitoring and Failure Prediction Using Satellite Remote Sensing |
| Pettryk (Deering) | U Michigan - MSGC | The Origin of an Archean Batholith - Michigan's Upper Peninsula |
| Shaw | Weather Modification, Inc. | Characterization of Ice Nucleating Particles in MTU Cloud Chamber |
| Shaw | DOD AFRL | An Investigation of the Suitability of a Laboratory Cloud Chamber for Optical Radiative Transfer Measurements |
| Shaw | Batelle | HOLODEC Participation in the ARM Campaign Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) |
| Shaw | NSF | Laboratory Studies of the Effect of Turbulence on Aerosol-Cloud Turbulence |
| Shaw | NSF | Exploring Aerosol Indirect Effects in a Laboratory Cloud Chamber |
| Smirnov | NSF | CAREER: Reading Magnetic Fingerprints from Deep Time: An Insight into the Geodynamo and Early Earth System Evolution |
| Smirnov | NSF | Paleointensity of the Paleoproterozoic Geomagnetic Field as Recorded by Single Silicate Crystals: Testing the "Proterozoic Dipole Low" |
| Smirnov | NSF | Collaborative Research: Geomagnetic Field Strength and Stability Between 500 and 800 Ma: Constraining Inner Core Growth |
| Wolf | NSF | Lethal Pyroclastic Density Current Generation and Transport form Combined Column and/or Upper Volcanic Slopes Collapse, at Basaltic Fuego Volcano |
Appendix C: Major expenditures
| Category | Expense ($) |
|---|---|
| Graduate support (stipend, tuition, and travel): Anderson, Schum. Rosky, Barbee, Chandrakar, Foucher, Huang, Desai | 28,413 |
| Grant matches / supplements and travel (nonstudent, nonseminar): L. Mazzoleni, C. Mazzoleni, Deering, Nitz, Fleischhack | 42,172 |
| Startup: Xi | 7,500 |
| Seminar series | 18,242 |
2017-2018
EPSSI's activities in fiscal year 2017-18 are aligned with those stated above as follows (See Appendix C for a list of major expenditures):
- The Institute has spent $29,990 to support graduate students (tuition, stipend, and travel to conferences) in this fiscal year.
- $8,909 was used to support postdocs, research personnel, and visiting scientists.
- $30,900 was used for research infrastructure enhancement, either through matches to proposals or startup.
- EPSSI coordinates one of the longest running, most successful seminar series on campus – the Remote Sensing Seminar, renamed as the EPSSI seminar. In fiscal year 2017-18, the Institute spent $13,330 on the seminar series. See Appendix A for a list of the seminar speakers and their affiliations.
Facts and Figures, Specific to Fiscal Year 2017-2018
The overhead generated by grants associated with EPSSI through the last four quarters (2017-2018) totaled $515,397. [$116,092; $97,221; $108,187; $193,898]
There were 27 awarded grants (not counting REF grants) affiliated with EPSSI in this fiscal year. See Appendix B for a complete list.
In 2017-18, there were 11 graduate students in the Atmospheric Sciences program, which EPSSI oversees. Two of those students, Pei Hou, advised by Shiliang Wu, and Janarjan Bhandari, advised by Claudio Mazzoleni, successfully defended this year.
Appendix A: Seminar Speakers, Fall 2017
| Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Alla Zelenyuk-Imre | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
| Scott Wunsch | Johns Hopkins |
| Jose D. Fuentes (Honrath Lecture) | Penn State |
| Steven Krueger | Utah |
| Cevat Özgen Karacan | US Geological Survey |
| Mike Pavolonis | NOAA NESDIS |
| Josef Dufek | Georgia Tech |
| David Titley | Penn State |
| Peter Webley | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| Cynthia Ebinger | Tulane |
| W. Charles Kerfoot | Michigan Tech |
| Lynn Mazzoleni | Michigan Tech |
| John Cook | George Mason University |
Appendix B: Awarded proposals affiliated with EPSSI, 2016-2017
| Principal Investigator | Funding Agency | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Cantrell | NSF | Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation in Clouds- A Synergistic Experimental and Simulation Approach |
| Carn | NASA | Advancing NASA OMI SO2 Product: Enabling New Science Analyses, Applications, and Long-term, Multisatellite Monitoring |
| Carn | U of Maryland | Extending NASA's Long-term Satellite Data Records: Advanced SO2 and NO2 Measurements from Suomi NPP OMPS |
| Carn | NASA | Volcanic SO2 and Ash Products from EPIC Observations |
| Carn | U of Maryland | Extending NASA's EOS SO2 and NO2 data records from Aura/OMI to Suomi NPP/OMPS |
| Carn | NASA | Multi-Decadel Sulfur Dioxide Climatology from Satellite Instruments |
| Chatterjee/Oommen | NASA | Minerals and Rock Type Mapping Using Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) Data |
| Deering/McCarty | NASA | Understanding Basaltic Volcanic Processes by Remotely Measuring the Links Between Vegetation Health and Extent, and Volcanic Gas and Thermal Emissions using HyspIRI-like… |
| Deering | NSF | Assessing Changes in the State of a Magma Storage System Caldera-forming Eruption Cycles, a Case Study at Taupo Volcanic Zone New Zealand |
| Gierke | NATO | Security against geohazards at the major Enguri hydroelectric scheme in Georgia |
| Hüntemeyer | NSF | Investigating Large Scale Structures and Galactic Plane Morphologies at TeV Energies with the HAWC Observatory |
| Kostinski | NSF | Correlated Random Processes in Physics and Radar Meteorology |
| Kulie | NASA | Snowfall in the GPM Era: Assessing GPM Snowfall and Ice Microphysical Retrievers Using Independent Spaceborne and Ground-based Observations |
| Kulie | NASA | Deployment and Maintenance of a Proposed Snowfall Measurement Network to Study GFM Footprint-level Snowfall Variability |
| Mazzoleni, C. | NSF | Fabricated Equipment: MRI: Development of a Water Vapor and Temperature Mapping System to Study CloudTurbulence Interactions in the MTU PI-Chamber |
| Mazzoleni, C. | Aerodyne Research, Inc. | Collaborative Laboratory Study of the Optical Properties and Ice Nuclei Activity of Black Carbon Containing Particles as a Function of Mixing State |
| Mazzoleni, C. | Aerodyne Research, Inc. | Cloud Particle Formation |
| Mazzoleni, L. | NASA | Fellowship, M. Brege |
| Nemiroff | NASA | Support for Astronomy Picture of the Day |
| Oommen | NSF | FNR Damage Assessment |
| Oommen | NASA | FNR Fellowship Bouali |
| Shaw | DOE | Yrs 1-3 Influence of Nucleation on Ice Microphysical Properties of Mixed-Phase Stratiform Clouds |
| Shaw | NSF | EAGER: Exploring Aerosol Indirect Effects in a Laboratory Cloud Chamber |
| Shaw | DOD AFRL | An Investigation of the Suitability of a Laboratory Cloud Chamber for Optical Radiative Transfer Measurements |
| Shaw | Batelle | HOLODEC Participation in the ARM Campaign Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) |
| Shaw | NSF | Laboratory Studies of the Effect of Turbulence on Aerosol-Cloud Turbulence |
| Smirnov | NSF | CAREER: Reading Magnetic Fingerprints from Deep Time: An Insight into the Geodynamo and Early Earth System Evolution |
| Smirnov | NSF | Paleointensity of the Paleoproterozoic Geomagnetic Field as Recorded by Single Silicate Crystals: Testing the "Proterozoic Dipole Low" |
Appendix C: Major Expenditures
| Category | Expense |
|---|---|
| Graduate Support: Hou, Karki, Kumar, Li, Schum, Bhandari, Foucher | $27,077 |
| Travel (Graduate Students): Foucher, Karki, Anderson, Desai | $2,913 |
| Postdoctoral / Visiting Scientist: van der Voort, Larsen | $8,909 |
| Grant Matches / Supplements: C. Mazzoleni, L. Mazzoleni, Wu, Chadde, Kostinski | $25,624 |
| Cost Share and Startup: Shaw (REF-IE), Kulie, Drelich (MRI) | $30,900 |
| Seminar Series | $13,330 |
2016-2017
EPSSI's activities in fiscal year 2016-17 are aligned with those stated above as follows:
- The Institute has spent $31,819 to support graduate students (tuition, stipend, and travel to conferences) in this fiscal year.
- $13,016 was used to support postdoc, research personnel, and visiting scientists. Another $4000 was used to support an undergraduate working on a summer research project in 2017 (this spans two fiscal years).
- $13,000 was committed to bridge funding for the Michigan Tech's participation in the Auger collaboration.
- $55,000 was used for research infrastructure enhancement. $50,000 was used to support the upgrade of Superior while $5,000 of this was cost share for an REF-IE proposal. Another $15,000 for cost share of an REF-IE and cost share for an NSF MRI will come out of expenditures for fiscal year 2017-18.
- EPSSI coordinates one of the longest running, most successful seminar series on campus – the Remote Sensing Seminar, renamed as the EPSSI seminar. In fiscal year 2016-17, the Institute spent $14,202 on the seminar series. See Appendix A for a list of the seminar speakers and their affiliations.
Facts and Figures, Specific to Fiscal Year 2016-2017
The overhead generated by grants associated with EPSSI through the last four quarters (2016-2017) totaled $387,921. [$86,079; $47,112; $82,618; $172,112]
There were 21 awarded grants (not counting REF grants) affiliated with EPSSI in this fiscal year. See Appendix B for a complete list.
There are 9 graduate students in the Atmospheric Sciences program, which EPSSI oversees. One student, Fan Yang, graduated from the PhD program last year. He went on to postdoctoral position at Brookhaven National Lab.
| Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Jessica McCarty | MTRI |
| Alex Mayer | Michigan Tech |
| Graham Feingold (Honrath Lecture) | NOAA Environmental Research Laboratory |
| Alexandria Johnson | MIT / Brown |
| Kerri Pratt | Michigan |
| Ginger Strand | author of The Brothers Vonnegut |
| Allison Steiner | Michigan |
| James Cotner | Minnesota |
| Paul Hanson | Wisconsin |
| Tim Onasch | Aerodyne, Inc. |
| Julienne Stroeve | National Snow and Ice Data Center |
| John Selker | Oregon State |
Appendix B: Awarded Proposals Affiliated with EPSSI, 2016-2017
| Principal Investigator | Funding Agency | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Cantrell | NSF | Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation in Clouds- a Synergistic Experimental and Simulation Approach |
| Carn | NASA | Multi-decadal Sulfur Dioxide Climatology from Satellite Instruments |
| Carn | U of Md | Extending NASA's Long-term Satellite Data Records: Advanced SO2 and NO2 Measurements from Suomi NPP OMPS |
| Carn | NASA | Volcanic SO2 and Ash Products from EPIC Observations |
| Deering/McCarty | NASA | Understanding Basaltic Volcanic Processes by Remotely Measuring the Links Between Vegetation Health and Extent, and Volcanic Gas and Thermal Emissions using HyspIRI-like… |
| Gierke | NATO | Security against geohazards at the major Enguri hydroelectric scheme in Georgia |
| Hüntemeyer | NSF | Investigating Large Scale Structures and Galactic Plane Morphologies at TeV Energies with the HAWC Observatory |
| Kostinski | NSF | Correlated Random Processes |
| Mazzoleni, C. | NSF | Fabricated Equipment: MRI: Development of a Water Vapor and Temperature Mapping System to Study CloudTurbulence Interactions in the MTU PI-Chamber |
| Mazzoleni, C. | Aerodyne Research, Inc. | Laboratory Studies of Cloud Particle Formation, Mixing State, and Physicochemical and Optical Properties of Carbonaceous Aerosols |
| Mazzoleni, L. | NASA | Fellowship, M. Brege |
| Nemiroff | NASA | Supporting Astronomy Picture of the Day |
| Oommen | NSF | FNR Damage Assessment |
| Oommen | NASA | FNR Fellowship Bouali |
| Shaw | DOE | Yrs 1-3 Influence of Nucleation on Ice Microphysical Properties of Mixed-Phase Stratiform Clouds |
| Shaw | NSF | EAGER: Exploring Aerosol Indirect Effects in a Laboratory Cloud Chamber |
| Shaw | DOD AFRL | An Investigation of the Suitability of a Laboratory Cloud Chamber for Optical Radiative Transfer Measurements |
| Shaw | Batelle | HOLODEC Participation in the ARM Campaign Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) |
| Smirnov | NSF | CAREER: Reading Magnetic Fingerprints from Deep Time: An Insight into the Geodynamo and Early Earth System Evolution |
| Smirnov | NSF | Paleointensity of the Paleoproterozoic Geomagnetic Field as Recorded by Single Silicate Crystals: Testing the "Proterozoic Dipole Low" |
Appendix C: Major Expenditures
| Category | Expense |
|---|---|
| Undergraduate Research: Bekkering | $4,000 |
| Graduate: Hou, Karki, Kumar, Li | $23,903 |
| Travel: Ayala, Brisbois, Chandrakar, Coel, Gerhardt, Hona, Hou, Khan, Lanza, Puel | $7,917 |
| Postdoctoral / Visiting Scientist: Zhou, van der Voort | $3,851 |
| Matching / Bridge Funds: C. Mazzoleni, Nitz/Fick, Shaw, Wu | $38,907 |
| Cost Share: Cantrell, L. Mazzoleni, Pandey | $17,250 |
| Upgrade for Superior | $50,000 |
| Seminar Series | $14,202 |
2015-2016
EPSSI's activities in fiscal year 2015-16 are aligned with those stated above as follows:
- The Institute has spent $13,044 to support graduate students (tuition and stipend) in this fiscal year. Another $2050 was used to support graduate student travel to national and international conferences
- $34,125 was used to support postdoc and research personnel. Another $3500 has been committed to support an undergraduate working on a summer research project in 2016.
- $10,000 was committed to bridge funding for the Cloud Chamber. Activities in the chamber have subsequently been funded through an NSF EAGER and an NSF MRI. A proposal to the AFRL is pending.
- $51,320 was used for research infrastructure enhancement. $32,570 of this was cost share for an REF-IE proposal and the remaining $18,750 was cost share for an NSF-MRI proposal.
- EPSSI coordinates one of the longest running, most successful seminar series on campus – the Remote Sensing Seminar. In fiscal year 2015-16, the Institute spent $14,197 on the seminar series. See Appendix A for a list of the seminar speakers and their affiliations.
Facts and Figures, Specific to Fiscal Year 2015-2016
The overhead generated by grants associated with EPSSI through the last four quarters (2015-2016) totaled $467,399. [$201,822; $113,371; $80,126; $48,482]. There is an additional $24,596 in funds not accounted for in the list in brackets. IRAD return from one proposal was not credited to EPSSI's account, which we discovered as we prepared this report. Those funds were credited to EPSSI's account in a lump sum.
There were 37 awarded grants (not counting REF grants) affiliated with EPSSI in this fiscal year. See Appendix B for a complete list.
There are 8 graduate students in the Atmospheric Sciences program, which EPSSI oversees. Two people graduated from the PhD program (Joseph Niehaus and Noopur Sharma) last fall. Both went on to postdoctoral positions.
EPSSI committed $110,000 in support of MRI proposals in FY 15-16. One of those proposals has been recommended for funding.
In the upcoming fiscal year, EPSSI has committed $50,000 for upgrades to Superior and $15,900 in startup support for Dr. Mark Kulie, who will be joining GMES in the spring of 2017.
Appendix A: Seminar Speakers, Fall 2015
| Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Gennady Gienko | University of Alaska-Anchorage |
| Jeffrey L. Stith | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Deepak R. Mishra | University of Georgia |
| Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds | Penn State |
| Hermann Gerber | Gerber Scientific, Inc. |
| Daniel Jaffe (Honrath Lecture) | University of Washington-Bothell |
| Jerome V. DeGraff | California State University, Fresno |
| Wei (Wendy) Zhou | Colorado School of Mines |
| Tim Moore | New Hampshire |
| Robert J. Andres | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
Appendix B: Awarded Proposals Affiliated with EPSSI, 2015-2016
| Principal Investigator | Funding Agency | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Baltensperger/Rose | NSF | MITEP: A Model for Improving Earth Science Education Nationwide |
| Cantrell | NSF | Collaborative Research: Heterogenous Ice Nucleation in Clouds - a Synergistic Experimental and Simulation Approach |
| Carn | NASA | A-Train Volcano Observatory (ATVO) |
| Carn | US Dept. Ed. | International Geological Master in Volcanology and Geotechniques |
| Carn | NSF | CDI-type II Proposal: Vhub: Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for Volcano Eruption Hazards Modeling and Simulation |
| Carn | U of Md | Continuation of Long-term Sulfur Dioxide EDR with the NPP Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Nadir Mapper |
| Carn | NASA | Multi-decadal Sulfur Dioxide Climatology from Satellite Instruments |
| Carn | U of Md | Extending NASA's Long-term Satellite Data Records: Advanced SO2 and NO2 Measurements from Suomi NPP OMPS |
| Carn | NASA | Volcanic SO2 and Ash Products from EPIC Observations |
| Deering/McCarty | NASA | Understanding Basaltic Volcanic Processes by Remotely Measuring the Links Between Vegetation Health and Extent, and Volcanic Gas and Thermal Emissions using HyspIRI-like… |
| Gierke | NATO | Security against geohazards at the major Enguri hydroelectric scheme in Georgia |
| Hüntemeyer | NSF | Studying Cosmic-ray Acceleration and Propagation, Gas Content and Interstellar Radiation Fields in our Galaxy with the HAWC Observatory |
| Kostinski | NSF | Stochastic Aspects of Physical and Radar Meteorology |
| Mazzoleni, C. | NASA | Fellowship, K. Wright |
| Mazzoleni, C. | DOE | Atmospheric Transport: Understanding results from the DOE's 2010 CARES and 2012 ClearfLO campaigns |
| Mazzoleni, C. | Aerodyne Research, Inc. | Laboratory Studies of Cloud Particle Formation, Mixing State, and Physicochemical and Optical Properties of Carbonaceous Aerosols |
| Mazzoleni, L | NSF | Collaborative Research: Chemical, Physical and Radiative Properties of North Atlantic Free Tropospheric Aerosol after Long-range Transport |
| Mazzoleni, L. | NSF | Collaborative Research: Nitrogen Partitioning and Evolution of particulate organic nitrogenin Peat Fire Emissions |
| Mazzoleni, L. | NASA | Fellowship, M. Brege |
| Nemiroff | NASA | Supporting Astronomy Picture of the Day |
| Nitz | DOE | Studies of Particle Astrophysics at the Cosmic Frontier Years 1-2 |
| Oommen | NSF | Crowdsourced Knowledge Base for the Damage Assessment of Extreme Events |
| Shaw | DOE | Yrs 1-3 Influence of Nucleation on Ice Microphysical Properties of Mixed-Phase Stratiform Clouds |
| Shaw | NSF | MRI: Development of a Multiphase Turbulent Reaction Chamber for Laboratory Studies of Atmospheric Aerosol and Cloud Processes |
| Shaw | NSF | Laboratory and Field Studies of Cloud-turbulence Interactions via Digital Holography |
| Shaw | NASA | Investigating the Effect of Solar Activity during a Grand Minimum on Clouds |
| Shaw | DOE | Yrs 1-3 Influence of Nucleation on Ice Microphysical Properties of Mixed-Phase Stratiform Clouds |
| Shaw | Leibnitz Inst. TROPOS | Holographic Measurements for the Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Turbulence Tunnel |
| Shaw | Thermoanalytics | Optical Testing in MTU Turbulent Cloud Chamber |
| Shaw | NSF | EAGER: Exploring Aerosol Indirect Effects in a Laboratory Cloud Chamber |
| Smirnov | NSF | Paleointensity, Morphology and Stability of the Proterozoic Geomagnetic Field as Recorded by Mafic Dikes in India |
| Smirnov | NSF | CAREER: Reading Magnetic Fingerprints from Deep Time: An Insight into the Geodynamo and Early Earth System Evolution |
| Smirnov | NSF | Paleointensity of the Paleoproterozoic Geomagnetic Field as Recorded by Single Silicate Crystals: Testing the "Proterzoic Dipole Low" |
| Waite | NSF | CAREER: Eruption Dynamics from Low-frequency Volcano_Seismic Signals |
| Wu | EPA | Extreme Event Impacts- Ozone & Particulate Matter Air |
The Charter for the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences Institute states that the Institute will:
- Contribute to startup funds to support new faculty
- Provide funding for postdoctoral scholars
- Support and oversee the graduate program in Atmospheric Sciences
- Recruit and support graduate students
- Support multi-PI proposals
2014-2015
EPSSI's activities in fiscal year 2014-15 are aligned with those stated above as follows:
- The Institute has spent $17,933 to support graduate students (tuition and stipend) in this fiscal year. Another $2023 was used to support graduate student travel to national and international conferences.
- $24,934 was used to support postdoc and research personnel. $3018 of this was to support an undergraduate working on a summer research project. The remaining funds were used to support postdoctoral scholars and research technicians.
- $29,648 was used for research infrastructure enhancement, primarily through cost share for the REF-IE program. The ICP-MS, now in the GLRC, was upgraded, and two instruments were acquired – a soot photometer and an ion chromatography system. In addition to the support for instrumentation, EPSSI also supported ($15,062) a proof of concept experiment/collaboration between investigators in GMES and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
- EPSSI coordinates one of the longest running, most successful seminar series on campus – the Remote Sensing Seminar. In fiscal year 2014-15, the Institute spent $9,882 on the seminar series. See Appendix A for a list of the seminar speakers and their affiliations.
Facts and Figures, Specific to Fiscal Year 2014-2015
The overhead generated by grants associated with EPSSI through the last four quarters (2014-2015) totaled $573,586. [$196,901; $147,685; $117,391; $111,607]
There were 33 awarded grants (not counting REF grants) affiliated with EPSSI in this fiscal year. See Appendix B for a complete list.
There are 10 graduate students in the Atmospheric Sciences program, which EPSSI oversees. Two have graduated within the last year, and another two will defend in fall of 2015.
EPSSI committed $150,000 in support of MRI proposals in FY 14-15. One of those proposals has been recommended for funding.
Appendix A: Seminar Speakers, Fall 2014
| Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Michael Dutter and Matt Zika | NOAA / National Weather Service, Marquette MI |
| Richard C. Flagan | California Institute of Technology |
| Andrew Detwiler | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology |
| Zhong Lu | Southern Methodist University |
| Hunter Carrick | Central Michigan University |
| Jeff Collett | Colorado State University |
| Noelle Selin | MIT Global Change Institute |
| Ezequiel Medici | Michigan Tech |
| Dale Griffin | US Geological Survey |
Appendix B: Awarded proposals affiliated with EPSSI, 2014-2015
| Principal Investigator | Funding Agency | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Baltensperger/Rose | NSF | MITEP: A Model for Improving Earth Science Education Nationwide |
| Cantrell | NSF | Measurement of Ice Nuclei in the Contact Mode |
| Carn | NASA | A-Train Volcano Observatory (ATVO) |
| Carn | U of Neb | A Combined EOS Data and GEOS Chem Modeling Study of the Direct Radiative Forcing Volcanic Sulfate Aerosols |
| Carn | US Dept. Ed. | International Geological Master in Volcanology and Geotechniques |
| Carn | NSF | CDI-type II Proposal: Vhub: Collaborative Research: Cyberinfrastructure for Volcano Eruption Hazards Modeling and Simulation |
| Carn | U of Md | Continuation of Long-term Sulfur Dioxide EDR with the NPP Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Nadir Mapper |
| Carn | NASA | Multi-decadal Sulfur Dioxide Climatology from Satellite Instruments |
| Carn | Carnegie Inst. | Improving Constraints on Volcanic Emissions from the Vanuatu Arc |
| Carn | U of Md | Extending NASA's Long-term Satellite Data Records: Advanced SO2 and NO2 Measurements from Suomi NPP OMPS |
| Carn | NASA | Volcanic SO2 and Ash Products from EPIC Observations |
| Hüntemeyer | NSF | Studying Cosmic-ray Acceleration and Propagation, Gas Content and Interstellar Radiation Fields in our Galaxy with the HAWC Observatory |
| Kostinski | NSF | Stochastic Aspects of Physical and Radar Meteorology |
| Mazzoleni, C | Nev. Sys. Ed. | MRI: Development of a Photoacoustic Light Absorption and Albedo spectrometer for the Characterization of Aerosol Radiative Transfer in the Solar Spectrum |
| Mazzoleni, C. | DOE | The radiative role free tropospheric aerosols and marine clouds over the Central North Atlantic |
| Mazzoleni, C. | DOE | Atmospheric Transport: Understanding results from the DOE's 2010 CARES and 2012 ClearfLO campaigns |
| Mazzoleni, C. | Aerodyne Research, Inc. | Laboratory Studies of Cloud Particle Formation, Mixing State, and Physicochemical and Optical Properties of Carbonaceous Aerosols |
| Mazzoleni, L | NSF | Collaborative Research: Chemical, Physical and Radiative Properties of North Atlantic Free Tropospheric Aerosol after Long-range Transport |
| Nemiroff | NASA | Supporting Astronomy Picture of the Day |
| Nitz | DOE | Particle Astro Physics Years 1-2 |
| Oommen | NSF | Crowdsourced Knowledge Base for the Damage Assessment of Extreme Events |
| Shaw | DOE | Yrs 2-3 Laboratory Investigations of Contact Freezing and the Aerosol to Ice Crystal Transformation Process |
| Shaw | NSF | MRI: Development of a Multiphase Turbulent Reaction Chamber for Laboratory Studies of Atmospheric Aerosol and Cloud Processes |
| Shaw | NSF | Laboratory and Field Studies of Cloud-turbulence Interactions via Digital Holography |
| Shaw | NASA | Investigating the Effect of Solar Activity during a Grand Minimum on Clouds |
| Shaw | DOE | Yrs 1-3 Influence of Nucleation on Ice Microphysical Properties of Mixed-Phase Stratiform Clouds |
| Shaw | Leibnitz Inst. TROPOS | Holographic Measurements for the Leipzig Aerosol Cloud Turbulence Tunnel |
| Shaw | Thermoanalytics | Optical Testing in MTU Turbulent Cloud Chamber |
| Smirnov | NSF | Paleointensity, Morphology and Stability of the Proterozoic Geomagnetic Field as Recorded by Mafic Dikes in India |
| Smirnov | NSF | CAREER: Reading Magnetic Fingerprints from Deep Time: An Insight into the Geodynamo and Early Earth System Evolution |
| Smirnov | NSF | Early Career: Acquisition of a High Sensitivity Superconducting Rock Magnetometer for Paleomagnetic and Paleointensity Research |
| Waite | NSF | CAREER: Eruption Dynamics from Low-frequency Volcano_Seismic Signals |
| Wu | EPA | Extreme Event Impacts- Ozone & Particulate Matter Air |
| Cantrell | MTU, REF-IE | Soot Photometer |
| Mazzoleni, L. | MTU, REF-IE | Organic Aerosol |
2012-2013
EPSSI's activities in fiscal year 2012-13 are aligned with those stated above as follows:
- The Institute contributed $11,000 this year to startup for a new faculty member in Geology.
- The Institute has spent $19,047 to support graduate students (tuition and stipend) in this fiscal year.
- As indicated in last year's report, the Institute committed funds (as required cost share) for support of a postdoctoral scholar working on the Cloud Chamber MRI. EPSSI has also committed funds for postdoctoral support for projects in GMES and SFRES. Total expenditures in support of postdoctoral scholars for this fiscal year is $34,650.
- In addition to the postdoc support noted above, the Institute has also contributed $25,000 toward renovation of Dow 105, where the cloud chamber facility will be housed.
- EPSSI coordinates one of the longest running, most successful seminar series on campus – the Remote Sensing Seminar. In fiscal year 2012-13, the Institute spent $13,216 on the seminar series. See Appendix A for a list of the seminar speakers.
Facts and Figures, Specific to Fiscal Year 2012-2013
EPSSI's revenues through the first three quarters of this fiscal year totaled $413,940. (Fourth quarter revenue was not available as of July 9.)
There were 41 awarded grants (not counting REF grants) affiliated with EPSSI in this fiscal year. See Appendix B for a complete list.
In fiscal year 2012-13, 14 EPSSI affiliated grants were submitted. See Appendix C for a complete list.
There are 12 graduate students in the Atmospheric Sciences program, which EPSSI oversees. There were 10 applications to the Atmospheric Sciences program this year.
Appendix A: Seminar Speakers, Fall 2012
| Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Andres Diaz | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Patrick Haertel | Yale University |
| Sumit Kumar | Michigan Tech |
| Guy Brassuer | Climate Service Center—Germany |
| Bin Tan | NASA-GSFC |
| Luke Van Roekel | Northland College |
| Annmarie G. Carlton | Rutgers |
| Matt Haney | USGS-Alaska Volcano Observatory |
| Barbara Ervens | CIRES/NOAA |
| Rajul Pandya | Spark – UCAR Science Education |
| Andrei Abelev | Naval Research Laboratory |
| Andrea Vander Woude | Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research |
| Matt Alvarado | Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc |
Appendix B: Awarded proposals affiliated with EPSSI, 2012-2013
| Principal Investigator | Funding agency | Project title |
|---|---|---|
| Baltensperger/Rose | NSF | MITEP: A model for improving earth science education nationwide |
| Cantrell | NSF | Measurement of Ice Nuclei in the Contact Mode |
| Carn | NASA | A-Train Volcano Observatory (ATVO) |
| Carn | NASA | Validation of OMI L2 sulfur dioxide retrievals over volcanic and anthropogenic sources |
| Carn | NSF | Cyberinfrastructure for volcano eruption hazards modeling and simulation |
| Carn | U of Neb | A combined EOS data and GEOS chem modeling study of the direct radiative forcing volcanic sulfate aerosols |
| Carn | U of Md | Continuation of long-term sulfur dioxide EDR with the NPP ozone mapping and profiler suite nadir mapper |
| Carn | NASA | FNR Multi-decadal sulfur dioxide climatology from satellite instruments |
| Doskey | NSF | Collaborative research: synthesis of existing and new observations of air-snowpack exchanges to assess the arctic tropospheric ozone budget |
| Falkowski/Levin | NASA | FFC Fuel consumption and carbon cycling in northern peatland ecosystems: Understanding vulnerability to burning fuel |
| Gierke | NSF | PIRE: Remote sensing for hazard mitigation and resource protection in Pacific Latin America |
| Gierke | NSF | Volcanic hazards and remote sensing in Pacific Latin America: San Jose, Costa Rica: January/February, 2011 |
| Huentemeyer | NSF | Collab Pro: Personnel support for the construction and commissioning of the gamma-ray observatory |
| Kerfoot | NPS | Determine invasion status and ecological effects of an exotic zooplakter in several Great Lakes area parks |
| Kostinski | NSF | Stochastic aspects of physical and radar meteorology |
| Kramer | NASA | A study of biomass-burning and anthropogenic impacts on arctic tropospheric chemistry using measurements at Summit, Greenland as part of the POLARCAT International Polar Year project |
| Mazzoleni, C | Nev Sys Ed | MRI: Development of a photoacoustic light absorption and albedospectrometer for the characterization of aerosol radiative transfer in the solar spectrum |
| Mazzoleni, C | USDOE | The radiative role free tropospheric aerosols and marine clouds |
| Mazzoleni, C. | NASA | FNR Swarup China Fellowship |
| Mazzoleni, L | NSF | Collaborative research: hygroscopic properties of aerosol organics |
| Mazzoleni, L | NSF | Collaborative research: Chemical, physical and radiative properties of North Atlantic free tropospheric aerosol after long-range transport |
| Nitz | CO St U | Northern hemisphere Pierre Auger Observatory in Colorado |
| Nitz | USDOE | Recovery Act: Year 13 studies of high energy particle astrophysics |
| Nitz/Fick | USDOE | Recovery Act:Year 14 studies of high energy particle astrophysics |
| Oommen | NSF | A crowdsourced knowledge base for the damage assessment of extreme events |
| Owen | USDOE | The radiative role free tropospheric aerosols and marine clouds |
| Rose | US Ed | International geological master in volcanology and geotechniques |
| Shaw | USDOE | Laboratory investigations of contact freezing and the aerosol to ice crystal transformation process |
| Shaw | Battelle | Further Development of the HOLODEC 2 (Holographic Detector for Clouds 2) Instrument |
| Shaw | NSF | MRI: Development of a multiphase turbulent reaction chamber for laboratory studies os atmospheric aerosol and cloud processes |
| Shaw | NSF | Laboratory and field studies of cloud-turbulence interactions via digital holography |
| Shaw/Lu | NASA | FNR Investigating the effect of solar activity during a grand minimum on clouds |
| Shaw | NASA | FNR Beals Fellowship |
| Smirnov | NSF | A Paleomagnetic and Geochronological Re-investigation of the ~1.1 Ga Coldwell Complex: Implications for the Reversal Asymmetry in Keweenawan Rocks |
| Smirnov | NSF | Paleointensity, morphology and stability of the proterozoic geomagnetic field as recorded by mafic dikes ins India |
| Smirnov | NSF | CAREER: Reading magnetic fingerprints from deep time: An insight into the geodynamo and early earth system evolution |
| Smirnov | NSF | Early Career: Acquisition of a high sensitivity superconducting rock magnetometer for paleomagnetic and paleointensity research |
| Waite | NSF | An integrated analysis of seismicity, infrasound and high resolution SO2 measurements to determine te source of low-frequency seismicity at Villarrica Volcano, Chile |
| Waite | NSF | CAREER: eruption dynamics from low-frequency volcano_seismic signals |
| Waite | NSF | EAGER: The Feasibility of simulating of weak volcanic shockwaves with analog modeling |
| Wu | USEPA | Impacts of changes in use and land cover on US air quality: development and application of an integrated-vegetationchemistry model |
| Wu | NSF | Collaborative research: Investigation of ozone photochemistry in lower-FT continental outflow traveling over the North Atlantic |
| Wu | EPA | Extreme Event Impacts |
Appendix C: Proposals affiliated with EPSSI, submitted in 2012-2013
| PI | Agency | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Becker/Cantrell | US DOE | Hitchhiking bacteria in the atmosphere: Understanding how attachment to dust particles affects the ice-nucleating activity of bacteria in mixed-phase clouds |
| Cantrell | NASA | Mineral dust and biomass burning aerosol as a source of contact ice nuclei in arctic mixed phase clouds: constraints from laboratory studies |
| Carn | Syracuse U/NSF | Hazards SEES type 2: Density flow and mixing dynamics in tectonically-active enclosed basins: Hazard case studies in Lakes Kivu and Malawi, East African Rift |
| Huentemeyer | NSF | CAREER: Diffuse and extended TeV gamma-ray emission in our Galaxy with HAWC Observatory |
| Kramer/Wu/Owen | NSF | The role of long-range transport and nitrogen oxides in photochemical ozone production in the Arctic |
| Mazzoleni, L | NSF | CAREER: Molecular-level investigation of aqueous phase isoprene oxidation and cloud processing |
| Mazzoleni, C. | NSF | CAREER: Clouds, turbulence and mixing: A remote sensing investigation within a cloud chamber |
| Mazzoleni, L./Doskey | NSF | MRI: Acquisition of an Orbitrap elite mass spectrometer for multidisciplinary research |
| Mazzoleni, C. | Boston College | Laboratory studies of cloud particle formation, mixing state and physicochemical and optical properties of carbonaceous aerosols |
| Mazzoleni, C. | US DOE | From detailed characterization of single particle morphology and mixing state to aerosol radiative forcing particle morphology and mixing radiative impact and atmospheric transport |
| Mouw | U of NH | Development of novel detection and prediction algorithms for microcystis blooms |
| Nitz | Colorado U/US DOE | |
| Shaw | US DOE | Influence of nucleation on ice microphysical properties of mixed-phase stratiform clouds |
| Waite | NSF | Numerical and analog modeling of weak volcanic shockwaves |
2011-2012
EPSSI's activities in fiscal year 2011-12 are aligned with those stated above as follows:
- The Institute is contributing $22,000 over two years (last year and this one) to startup for a new faculty member in Geology.
- The Institute has spent $24,048 to support graduate students (tuition and stipend) in this fiscal year.
- As indicated in last year's report, the Institute committed funds (as required cost share) for support of a postdoctoral scholar working on the Cloud Chamber MRI. EPSSI has also contributed to support for a postdoc in GMES. Total expenditures in support of postdoctoral scholars for this fiscal year is $41,590.
- The Institute has provided (i.e. actually spent) $21,674 in miscellaneous cost share for various proposals in this fiscal year.
- EPSSI coordinates one of the longest running, most successful seminar series on campus – the Remote Sensing Seminar. In fiscal year 2011-12, the Institute spent $14,434 on the seminar series. See Appendix A for a list of the seminar speakers.
Facts and Figures, Specific to Fiscal Year 2011-2012
EPSSI's total expenditures were $118,450.
There were 33 awarded grants (not counting two REF grants) affiliated with EPSSI in this fiscal year with a total expected expenditure over the lifetime of the grants of $15,934,621. See Appendix B for a complete list.
In fiscal year 2011-12, 20 EPSSI affiliated grants were submitted. See Appendix C for a complete list.
There are 10 graduate students in the Atmospheric Sciences program, which EPSSI oversees. Two more have been admitted to the program and will be starting in the fall of 2012. There were nine applications to the Atmospheric Sciences program this year.
Appendix A: Seminar Speakers, Fall 2011
| Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Engielle Paguican | Universite Blaise Pascal Clermont Ferrand, France |
| Joe Meert | University of Florida |
| Bob Shuchman | Michigan Tech Research Institute |
| Tim Garrett | University of Utah |
| Michael R. Hoffman | California Institute of Technology |
| Yan Liu | Northern Michigan University |
| Elissa M. Eastvedt | Langmuir Laboratory, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
| Giuseppe Petrucci | University of Vermont |
| Qing Liang | NASA GESTAR/Universities Space Research Association (USRA) |
| Jim Pankow | Portland State University |
| Ronald T. Eguchi | ImageCat, Inc. |
| Richard Aster | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
| Xinhua Shen | Michigan Technological University |
Appendix B: Awarded proposals affiliated with EPSSI, 2011-2012
| Principal Investigator | Funding agency | Project title |
|---|---|---|
| Baltensperger/Rose | NSF | MITEP: A model for improving earth science education nationwide |
| Cantrell | NSF | Measurement of Ice Nuclei in the Contact Mode |
| Carn | NASA | A-Train Volcano Observatory (ATVO) |
| Carn | NASA | Validation of OMI L2 sulfur dioxide retrievals over volcanic and anthropogenic sources |
| Carn | NSF | CDI-type II proposal: Vhub: Collaborative research: Cyberinfrastructure for volcano eruption hazards modeling and simulation |
| Carn | U of Neb | A combined EOS data and GEOS chem modeling study of the direct radiative forcing volcanic sulfate aerosols |
| Carn | U of Md | Continuation of long-term sulfur dioxide EDR with the NPP ozone mapping and profiler suite nadir mapper |
| Doskey | NSF | Collaborative research: synthesis of existing and new observations of air-snowpack exchanges to assess the arctic tropospheric ozone budget |
| Gierke | NSF | PIRE: Remote sensing for hazard mitigation and resource protection in Pacific Latin America |
| Gierke | NSF | Volcanic hazards and remote sensing in Pacific Latin America: San Jose, Costa Rica: January/February, 2011 |
| Huentemeyer | NSF | Collab Pro: Personnel support for the construction and commissioning of the gamma-ray observatory |
| Kerfoot | NPS | Determine invasion status and ecological effects of an exotic zooplakter in several Great Lakes area parks |
| Kostinski | NSF | Stochastic aspects of physical and radar meteorology |
| Kramer | NASA | A study of biomass-burning and anthropogenic impacts on arctic tropospheric chemistry using measurements at Summit, Greenland as part of the POLARCAT International Polar Year project |
| Mazzoleni, C | Nev Sys Ed | MRI: Development of a photoacoustic light absorption and albedospectrometer for the characterization of aerosol radiative transfer in the solar spectrum |
| Mazzoleni, C | USDOE | The radiative role free tropospheric aerosols and marine clouds |
| Mazzoleni, L | NSF | Collaborative research: hygroscopic properties of aerosol organics |
| Mazzoleni, L | NSF | Collaborative research: Chemical, physical and radiative properties of North Atlantic free tropospheric aerosol after long-range transport |
| Nitz | CO St U | Northern hemisphere Pierre Auger Observatory in Colorado |
| Nitz | USDOE | Recovery Act: Year 13 studies of high energy particle astrophysics |
| Nitz | USDOE | Recovery Act: Year 14 studies of high energy particle astrophysics |
| Owen | USDOE | The radiative role free tropospheric aerosols and marine clouds |
| Rose | US Ed | International geological master in volcanology and geotechniques |
| Shaw | USDOE | Laboratory investigations of contact freezing and the aerosol to ice crystal transformation process |
| Shaw | Battelle | Further Development of the HOLODEC 2 (Holographic Detector for Clouds 2) Instrument |
| Shaw | NSF | MRI: Development of a multiphase turbulent reaction chamber for laboratory studies os atmospheric aerosol and cloud processes |
| Shaw | NSF | Laboratory and field studies of cloud-turbulence interactions via digital holography |
| Smirnov | NSF | A Paleomagnetic and Geochronological Re-investigation of the ~1.1 Ga Coldwell Complex: Implications for the Reversal Asymmetry in Keweenawan Rocks |
| Smirnov | NSF | Paleointensity, morphology and stability of the proterozoic geomagnetic field as recorded by mafic dikes ins India |
| Smirnov | NSF | CAREER: Reading magnetic fingerprints from deep time: An insight into the geodynamo and early earth system evolution |
| Waite | NSF | An integrated analysis of seismicity, infrasound and high-resolution SO2 measurements to determine te source of low-frequency seismicity at Villarrica Volcano, Chile |
| Waite | NSF | CAREER: eruption dynamics from low-frequency volcano_seismic signals |
| Wu | USEPA | Impacts of changes in use and land cover on US air quality: development and application of an integrated-vegetationchemistry model |
| Wu | NSF | Collaborative research: Investigation of ozone photochemistry in lower-FT continental outflow traveling over the North Atlantic |
Appendix C: Proposals affiliated with EPSSI, submitted in 2011-2012
| Principal Investigator | Agency | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Cantrell | NASA | Measurements of effects of the freezing process of ice on its vapor pressure |
| Gierke | NSF | Advancing natural hazard mitigation through research and education in assessing hazard risk, human perceptions and behaviors |
| Wu | NSF | CAREER: effects of climate change on extreme air pollution meteorology and implications for air quality |
| Smirnov | NSF | CAREER: reading magnetic fingerprints from deep time: An insight into the geodynamo and early Earth system evolution |
| Mazzoleni, C. | NSF | CAREER: Investigation of aerosols and clouds in a turbulent environment using a supercontinuum LIDAR |
| Mazzoleni, L. | NSF | CAREER: Aqueous phase SOA formation from isoprene in suspended aerosols and droplets |
| Wu | NASA | Impacts of climate change on lightning activities and the consequences for atmospheric composition |
| Oommen | NSF | Collaborative research: semi-automation of damage assessment models for extreme events that use crowdsourcing to analyze remote sensing imagery |
| Oommen | NSF | Regional liquefaction hazard evaluation for locations with sparse geotechnical data |
| Carn | NASA | Volcano monitoring tools for East Africa and Mesoamerica (VOMTEAM) |
| Oommen | NASA | Application of remote sensing techniques to rapidly delineate liquefaction for a New Madrid Earthquake |
| Mayer | NASA | Using satellite imagery and vegetation loss indicators in a machine learning model for landslides in Central America |
| Waite | NSF | Numerical and analog modeling of weak volcanic shockwaves |
| Oommen | geolog.ch | Environmental hazards posed by the main radioactive waste deposits of Mailuu Suu and innovative remediation measures |
| Shaw | NASA | Investigating the effect of solar activity during a grand minimum on clouds |
| Doskey | NSF | Collaborative research: aerosol precursor emissions and secondary aerosol production in the Midwestern United States |
| Mazzoleni | RTI Int'n | Aging of black carbon and ambient aerosol during atmospheric transport: Understanding results from the DOE 2010 DOE CARES and 2012 CLERFLO campaigns |
| Carn | NASA | Multi-decadal sulfur dioxide climatology from satellite instruments |
| Oommen | USGS | Model and evaluate the earthquake-induced lateral spreading from the 2002 Denali earthquake: Collaborative research with Michigan Technological University and University of Alaska, Anchorage and |
| Kerfoot | EPA | Lake Superior invasives: Limiting establishment and dispersal |
| Kerfoot | EPA | Keweenaw stamp sands ecosystem restoration project |
2010-2011
EPSSI's activities in fiscal year 2010-11 are aligned with those stated above as follows:
- The Institute is contributing $22,000 over two years (this year and next) to startup for a new faculty member in Geology.
- The Institute has spent $32,229 to support graduate students in four departments (tuition and stipend) in this fiscal year.
- As indicated in last year's report, the Institute committed funds (as required cost share) for support of a postdoctoral scholar working on the Cloud Chamber MRI. That proposal was funded and EPSSI provided $34,650 in the first year of the grant.
- The Institute committed $10,000 as cost share for an OC/EC analyzer requested through Michigan Tech's REF-Infrastructure Enhancement program. That proposal was selected for funding, though REF funds are not available until July 1.
- EPSSI coordinates one of the longest running, most successful seminar series on campus – the Remote Sensing Seminar. In fiscal year 2010-11, the Institute spent $11,118 on the seminar series. See Appendix A for a list of the seminar speakers.
Facts and Figures, Specific to Fiscal Year 2010-2011
There were 31 grants affiliated with EPSSI in this fiscal year with a total expected expenditure over the lifetime of the grants of $13,701,279.
In fiscal year 2010-11, 24 EPSSI affiliated grants were submitted ($7,731,041 requested). Ten proposals were funded in 2010-11 ($4,050,071). Thirteen of the proposals are still pending. (Note that a proposal funded in 2010-11 need not have been submitted in the same fiscal year.)
There are nine (four incoming students) graduate students in the Atmospheric Sciences program, which EPSSI oversees. The Atmospheric Sciences program received 17 applications this year
Appendix A: Seminar Speakers, Fall 2010
| Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Florian M. Schwandner | Earth Observatory of Singapore |
| David Parrish | NOAA ESRL |
| Will Cantrell, Claudio Mazzoleni, Lynn Mazzoleni, and Raymond Shaw | Michigan Tech |
| Alistair Smith | University of Idaho |
| Dave Schwab | NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
| Jed O. Kaplan | Environmental Engineering Institute , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Lausanne, Switzerland |
| John Chadwick | University of North Carolina Charlotte |
| V. Rao Kotamarthi | Environmental Science Division , Argonne National Lab |
| Jonathan M. Lees | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Elizabeth Hays | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Gabriele Pfister | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Robert Kayen | US Geological Survey |
2009-2010
EPSSI's activities in fiscal year 2009-10 are aligned with those stated above.
- The Institute is currently (July) in discussions with the department of Geological and Mining Engineering Sciences to contribute to startup for a new faculty member in Atmospheric Sciences.
- The Institute has spent $25,743 to support graduate students (tuition and stipend) in this fiscal year.
- The Institute has committed $10,870 to support undergraduate research assistants. (Some of the committed funds will most likely be spent in late summer of 2010, which will be in the next fiscal year.)
- Four large, multi-PI proposals have been submitted through the Institute in fiscal year 2009-10, including a proposal for an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) site that included all members of the Atmospheric Sciences program as senior personnel. Shaw, Cantrell, C. Mazzoleni, and L. Mazzoleni were also PI's, with other members of EPSSI included as senior personnel, on two Major Research Instrumentation proposals. The remaining proposal, to the Department of Energy, was led by Claudio Mazzoleni and included Louisa Kramer (GMES) and Robert Owen (MTRI) as co-PIs.
- The Institute has committed to provide half the funds for a postdoctoral scholar for the second MRI proposal mentioned in the item above. That proposal is pending.
- EPSSI coordinates one of the longest running, most successful seminar series on campus – the Remote Sensing Seminar. In fiscal year 2009-10, the Institute spent $15,077 on the seminar series. See Appendix A for a list of the seminar speakers.
Facts and Figures, Specific to Fiscal Year 2009-2010
As of July 2010, there are 25 grants (external and active in fiscal year 2009-2010) through EPSSI.
In fiscal year 2009-10, 33 grants were submitted and four have been funded to date. For comparison, in fiscal year 2008-09, six proposals out of 21 submitted were funded.
There are eight graduate students in the Atmospheric Sciences program, which EPSSI oversees. An additional student is in the process of transferring from Physics.
See Appendix B for a more detailed accounting of EPSSI's expenditures for the fiscal year.
Appendix A: Seminar Speakers, Fall 2009
| Speaker | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Bereket Haileab | Carleton College |
| Manvendra Dubey | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Amanda B. Clarke | Arizona State University |
| John Tarduno | University of Rochester |
| Mike Fromm | Naval Research Laboratory |
| Chuck Connor | University of South Florida |
| Colette Heald | Colorado State University |
| Ann Maclean | Michigan Tech |
| Steve Ackerman | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Tim Dixon | University of Miami (NSF MARGINS Distinguished Lecturer Program, Special Seminar) |
| Anita Grunder | Oregon State University |
| Weston Thelen | University of Washington |
| Nickolay A. Krotkov | NASA GSFC/UMBC |
| Chris W. Fairall | NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory |
Appendix B: Expenditures
The “Original Estimated Plan” refers to the budget outline included in the proposal to renew the Remote Sensing Institute in 2004.
Administration costs
| Category | Annual cost (k$) | Dollars | % Expenditures |
|---|---|---|---|
| RSI director support | 10.0 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 1/5- to 1/4-time staff 7.0 | 7.0 | 3,685 | 5.34% |
| Photocopying and miscellaneous | 0.5 | 7 | 0.01% |
| Subtotal: 17.5 | 3,692 | 5.35% | |
Computing Support
| Category | Annual cost (k$) | Dollars | % Expenditures |
|---|---|---|---|
| (software available to all RSI members, connect fees for computing stations, available to all RSI members, hardware upgrades, system administration, etc.) | 17.0 | 5,632 | 8.17% |
| Subtotal: 17.0 | 5,632 | 8.17% | |
Remote Sensing seminar series
| Category | Annual cost (k$) | Dollars | % Expenditures |
|---|---|---|---|
| (for research development by sharing cost for collaborating visitors; MTU publicity; support for Remote Sensing minor) | 5.0 | 15,077 | 21.86% |
| Subtotal: 5.0 | 15,077 | 21.86% | |
Direct research and graduate support
| Category | Annual cost (k$) | Dollars | % Expenditures |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proposal cost-share (e.g., under graduate research assistants, equipment, field work/ship time, equipment maintenance or upgrades) | 5.5 | 12,527 | 18.17% |
| Graduate assistantships (supplements, cost-splitting with grant support, proposal cost-share) | 9.0 | 23,402 | 33.94% |
| Graduate travel awards (for presentation of research on RSI-affiliated or potentially RSI-affiliated projects) | 2.0 | 1,200 | 1.74% |
| Research faculty/Postdoctoral associate support research staff grant-bridging funding, short-term new research faculty funding, support of RSI-affiliated graduate program courses) | 11.0 | 3,000 | 4.35% |
| Research development grants (Funds to aid the development of new RSI-affiliated research) | 5.0 | 4,425 | 6.42% |
| Subtotal: 32.5 | 44,554 | 64.61% | |
| Total | 72.0 | 68,955 | 100.00% |