Research Grants
Active Awards
2025 – 2029 $857,704 PACE-Science NASA Award # 80NSSC25K0415 (Lead PI): Hyperspectral mapping of ice algae on the Greenland Ice Sheet and potential feedbacks from aerosol nutrient deposition.
2023 – 2024 $200,000 NSF OPP # 2336072, Arctic System Sciences (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
2022 – 2027 $1,303,508 NSF-CAREER OPP-2046240 (Single PI): Coastal Antarctic Snow Algae and Light Absorbing Particles: Snowmelt, Climate and Ecosystem Impacts, start date 1/1/2022.
2022 - 2024 $299,922 NSF-EAGER Arctic Observing Network 2218834 (Lead-PI): Autonomous retrieval of impurity-laden Arctic sea ice samples and hyperspectral surface properties through innovative robotics
Previous Awards
2022 – 2023 $100,000 NASA Augmentation to Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition #80NSSC21K1166 (Lead PI): to evaluate BlackSky imagery: Commercial Sensor Evaluation for Detection and Mapping of Snow Algae
2021 - 2022 $149,509 NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition #80NSSC21K1166 (Lead-PI): Commercial Sensor Evaluation for Detection and Mapping of Snow Algae
2020 - 2024 $312, 244 NASA Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Sciences #80NSSC20K1261 (Institutional PI): Quantifying Impact of Light Absorbing Aerosols upon Sea Ice in the Changing Arctic Climate, start 2020-07-01
2020 - 2023 $54,867 NSF-OPP: 2021543 (Institutional-PI), Improving Undergraduate STEM Education, Education Human Research: ‘Polar Space and Place’: Using GIS and Interactive environments to bring Polar science to the classroom.
2020 $30,000 Washington Water Research Center (Single-PI): to study, 'Snow Algae and Black Carbon Contributions to Surface Albedo Reduction of Snow and Glacier Surfaces in the Nooksack River Basin’.