Active, Funded Projects as of November 2004
National Science Foundation (NSF)

NSF as a CIRES Sponsor

CIRES Research Theme: Advanced Modeling and Observing Systems
PI Project Title
BERGMAN SGER: A Stochastic Single Column Modeling Framework for Diagnosing Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Tropical Variability
DICHTL Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center at NSIDC About NSIDC ]
FALL New Mass Spectrometer Technology for Analysis of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
FARMER ITR/IM (EAR) - Collaborative Research: Development of Data Visualization and Query Tools for NAVDAT, Western North American Volcanic and Intrusive Rock Database
FREHLICH Improved Weather Prediction by Adaptive Data Assimilations
HAMILL Collaborative Research: ITR--Ensemble-Based State Estimation for a Next-Generation Weather Forecasting Model
HAMILL Incorporating the Uncertainty of Atmosphere-Land Surface Interactions into Ensemble Forecasts
JANCHES Micrometeors and Their Interaction with the Atmosphere: A Comprehensive Study Using the Arecibo and Jicamarca Observatories
KINGSMILL Studies of Convection, Initiation, and Evolution
MASLANIK Collaborative Research: Modeling the Role of High Latitude Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Arctic System: A Retrospective Analysis of Alaska as a Regional System
SCHARFEN A Continuation of the US Antarctic Data Coordination Center at WDC-A/NSIDC About NSIDC ]
SERREZE Collaborative Research: A Land Surface Model Hindcast for the Terrestrial Arctic Drainage
SERREZE LONG-TERM OBSERVATIONS: Collaborative Research: A Hydrological Observing System for the Pan-Arctic Landmass
VELICOGNA Collaborative Research: Calculation of Antarctic Gravity Field from GRACE Satellite Data and Comparison with Independent Measurement
CIRES Research Theme: Climate System Variability
PI Project Title
CASSANO Collaborative Research: Detection and Attribution of Changes in the Hydrologic Regimes of the MacKenzie, the Kuparuk and the Lena River Basins
CHASE Collaborative Research: Land-atmosphere Interactions in Beringia Over the Last 21 ka: An Investigation of Climate Feedback Using the Arctic Regional Climate System Model (ARCSyM)
MAPES Climatological Studies with Doppler Lidar
MAPES Collaborative Research: ITR/AP: Diversifying Ensembles with Stochastic Convection
PINCUS Collaborative Research: Climate Process Team on Low-Latitude Cloud Feedbacks on Climate Sensitivity
SCAMBOS Collaborative Research: Characteristics of Snow Megadunes and their Potential Effects on Ice Core Interpretation
SCAMBOS The Antarctic Glaciological Data Center: Continued Data Collection and Management for Antarctic Glaciology
SERREZE Characterization of Atmospheric Moisture Transport and the Freshwater Budget of the Arctic with an Improved Regional Model
SERREZE Collaborative Research: Integrated Analyses of the Arctic Freshwater Cycle and its Influence on Global Climate
STEFFEN Assessment of Basal Melt of Petermann Gletscher in Northwestern Greenland
SUN Understanding the Causes of the Excessive Cold Tongue in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate System Model (NCAR CCSM)
WEATHERHEAD Expectation for the Detection of Climate Change in Vertical Temperature Data
CIRES Research Theme: Geodynamics
PI Project Title
BENDICK Collaborative Research: Strain and Tectonics of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayan Arc
BILHAM GPS Constraints on Inter-Plate and Intra-Plate Deformation of the Indian Subcontinent
JONES Collaborative Research: Deformation of the Lower Crust Beneath Strike-Slip Faults
JONES Paleomagnetic and Seismological Investigation of Rotations in Transpressional Folds, San Andreas Fault System, California
MOLNAR Collaborative Research: Deformation of the Lower Crust Beneath Strike-Slip Faults: Array Studies of Anisotopy and Converted Phases in the Malborough Fault Zone in New Zealand
MOLNAR Kinematic Constraints on the Average Rheological Structure of Continental Lithosphere Using Deformation of Parts of the Tibetan Plateau
MOLNAR Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and Mantle Dynamics Beneath Mountain Belts: An Accomplished Based Renewal
SCHULTE-PELKUM CSEDI: Collaborative Research: Toward a Comprehensive Model of Mantle Flow & Seismic Anisotropy in the Western US- Using Mineral Physics to Directly Link Geodynamics & Seismology
SCHULTE-PELKUM Depth Resolution of Anistropy using Body Waves
SHEEHAN Seismotectonics and Structure of Creeping thrusts and Mountain Building of the Himalaya
SHEEHAN High Resolution Imaging of Seismic Velocity Discontinuities
WAHR Collaborative Research: Ocean Pressure in the Arctic Derived from Satellite Gravity Observations and In Situ Measurements
WAHR US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Water Storage, Atmospheric Pressure, and the GRACE Gravity Satellite Mission
ZHANG Changes in Freeze-Thaw and Permafrost Dynamics and Their Hydrological Implication over the Russian Arctic Drainage Basis
ZHANG Collaborative Research: Permafrost Models Intercomparison Project
CIRES Research Theme: Integrating Activities
PI Project Title
BARRY A Workshop on Assessing Global Glacier Recession
BARRY An Integrated Investigation of Coupled Human and Sea Ice Systems: A Comparison of changing Environments and their Uses in the Western and Eastern North American Arctic
BARRY Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
BUHR Establishing a Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Evaluation "Toolkit" and Community
BUHR Establishing a DLESE Evaluation
FRODEMAN Global Climate Change and Society
FRODEMAN Workshop: Cities and Rivers: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives
JOSELYN US National Committee for IUGG Support of the Secretariat
LAHSEN "Our" Science, "Their" Science-Conflicting Agendas and Disputed Theories Concerning Amazonia
MASLANIK An Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Variability on the Alaskan North Slope Coastal Region
MCCAFFREY DLESE Climate Change Collection
REID Intergovernmental Personnel Act Assignment Agreement (IPA)
SERREZE Collaborative Research: An Integrated Assessment of the Arctic Freshwater System : Analysis of Retrospective and Contemporary Conditions
SMITH GK-12: Partners in Science Education: GK-12 Fellow at CU-Boulder
CIRES Research Theme: Planetary Metabolism
PI Project Title
CASSANO Collaborative Research: pre-RIME Studies of Transport Processes in the Ross Sea Sector
COPLEY MAA Isomerase to Tetrachlorohydroquinone Dehalogenase: Evolution in Action
COPLEY Recruitment of Enzymes to Serve New Functions
COPLEY Studies of Degradation of Xenobiotic Compound: A window on the Evolution of a Novel Metabolic Pathway at an Early Stage of Development
JIMENEZ Collaborative Research: Physical and Chemical impacts on the Ice Nucleating Properties of Atmospheric Particles in Springtime
MONSON Biocomplexity: Carbonshed Studies of Carbon Sequestration in Complex Terrain
TOLBERT Heterogeneous N205 Hydrolysis on Mixed (NH4)2SO4/Organic Thin Films Representative of Tropospheric Aerosol Particles
CIRES Research Theme: Regional Processes
PI Project Title
AKMAEV CEDAR: A Theoretical and Modeling Study of Global Change in the Mesosphere and Thermosphere
ANDERSON Space Weather: Unique Determination of Equatorial Electrodynamics Using Ground-based Magnetometers
ARAUJO-PRADERE Space-Weather: Storm-Time Response of Ionosphreric Total Electron Content
AVERY Collaborative Research: Equatorial Studies of the Mesopause Region using Meteor Radars
AVERY The Trans Pacific Profiler Network: Investigating Tropical Processes
BALSLEY Studies of High Resolution Turbulence, Stratification, and Instabilities in the Nighttime Boundary Layer
CHILSON Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Studies of Radio-Wave Scater and Dynamical Processes in the Polar Summer Mesopause Region
GUPTA WCR: Designing a Pilot Study for Floods in the Walnut River Basin, KS Using a Scaling Framework
HUGHES/AVERY Collaborative Research: Supply Functions and Clean-Development Mechanism Rules for Tropical Forest Carbon Sinks
SERREZE Characteristics of Cyclone Development in the Arctic and Their Hydrologic Impacts
TOLBERT Laboratory Studies of Heterogeneous Chemistry on Clays and Minerals Representative of Tropospheric Dust Aerosol
WAHR Monitoring Large-Scale Water Storage Variability in Egypt
WAHR Water Balance Estimates from Time-Variable Satellite Gravity
WRIGHT Irregularity Diagnostics by Digital Ionosondes
Other CIRES Research Projects Funded by NSF
PI Project Title
CHASE The Role of Tropical Asian Landcover Changes in Altering Large-scale Atmospheric Circulations: Interaction with ENSO and the Asian Summer Monsoon
FARMER Proposal for a High Precision Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry Workshop ("Reinvigorating TIMS")
GUPTA Developing a "Numerical Laboratory" to Test Scaling Hypotheses for Hydrologic Extremes
HARE Collaborative Research: Ship-based Measurements of Cloud Microphysics and PBL Properties in Precipitating Trade Cumulus Clouds During Rain In Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO)
MAPES Cumulus Ensemble Sensitivities
MOLNAR SGER: Tectonic and Environmental Change Near 8 Ma in and Near Tibet: A Proposal for a Reconnaissance Field Trip
PAINTER Collaborative Research: Radiative Effects of Desert Dust Deposits in Alpine Snow
PIELKE DMUU: Science Policy Assessment and Research on Climate (SPARC) for Decision-Making Under Uncertainty