REU Site: Interdisciplinary Renewable & Environmental Collaborative (IREC)

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Frank Bowman

Date: 2018-05-01 to 2022-04-30

Agency: NSF

Awarded: $339,501

Quantifying Impact of Light Absorbing Aerosols upon Sea Ice in the Changing Arctic Climate

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Jianglong Zhang

Date: 2020-08-01 to 2024-07-31

Agency: NASA

Awarded: $1,199,737

Exploring changes in elementary and middle school teachers’ engineering design self-efficacy and practice through ongoing, collaborative, and culturally-relevant professional development

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Frank Bowman

Date: 2021-01-01 to 2023-12-31

Agency: NSF

Awarded: $450,000

Assessment on the Habitat Quality and Cost-effectiveness of Pollinator Enhancement: an integrated Remote Sensing, Image Detection, and Economics approach

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Haochi Zheng

Date: 2021-6-01 ro 2024-05-31

Agency: USDA

Awarded: $500,000

MRI: Acquisition of an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) System for Profiling Open Channels

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Xiaodong Zhang

Date: 2018-09-01 to 2021-08-31

Agency: Center for Regional Climate Studies (CRCS)

Awarded: 158689

Detection and Characteristics of Blowing Snow at ARM Sites

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Aaron Kennedy

Date: 2018-09-15 to 2021-09-14

Agency: University of North Dakota Center for Regional Climate Studies (CRCS)

Awarded: 427684

Development and Assessment of Blowing Snow Guidance for an IDSS Situational Awareness Display

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Aaron Kennedy, Gretchen Mullendore

Agency: UCAR/COMET

Date: 2020-02-21 to 2021-04-30

Amount: 14984

Assessing economic value of honeybee pollination in increasing sunflower oil yield and oil quality

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Haochi Zheng

Agency: UND aerospace school

Date: 2019-05-15 to 2020-04-30

Amount: 10000

Developing Earth Science laboratory activities for the Elementary Education major

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Eric Brevik

Agency: North Dakota Space Grant

Date: 2019-05-15 to 2019-08-14

Amount: 4500

Maximizing honeybee pollination to increase sunflower oil yield and oil quality

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Haochi Zheng

Agency: State of North Dakota

Date: 2019-05-22 to 2020-06-01

Amount: 59113

Sustainable landscape solutions to reduce pesticide exposure and promote establishment of beneficial insect and pollinator communities in agricultural areas

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Haochi Zheng

Agency: Nebraska Hatch Multistate Funding

Date: 2016-10-01 to 2020-09-30

Amount: 500,000

Mesoscale Model Intercomparison at Convection-Allowing Resolution using MODE

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Gretchen Mullendore

Agency: Developmental Testbed Center (DTC)

Date: 2015-08-01 to 2016-07-31

Amount: 0

BEST Robotics travel grant

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Eric Brevik

Agency: North Dakota Department of Career and Technical Education

Date: 2015-10-15

Amount: 8000

An innovative approach for studying fire radiative power and smoke injection height with the combined use of lidar and polarimeter observations ,

EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Jianglong Zhang

Agency: NASA

Date: 2018-05-07 to 2019-05-06

Amount: 127000

EAGER: Observations of falling and lofted snow in windy environments.
EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Aaron Kennedy
Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: 2018-06-01 to 2020-05-31

Amount: $166,563

Investigating the Impact of Aerosol and Cloud Contamination on Hyperspectral Data Assimilation for Operational Weather Forecasting through the Synergistic Use of AIRS, CrIS, MODIS, CALIOP and MISR data.
EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Jianglong Zhang
Agency: NASA
Date: 2018-01-05 to 2021-12-31

Amount: $225,260

Deriving phytoplankton size classes, detrital matter, particulate organic matter and particulate inorganic matter from ocean color observation.
EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Xiaodong Zhang
Agency: NASA
Date: 2018-01-01 to 2020-12-20

Amount: $1,114,930

Optically resolving size and density distributions of particles in the dissolved-particulate continuum from 20 nm to 20 mm to improve the estimate of carbon flux
EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Xiaodong Zhang
Co-Investigators: Deric Gray, Naval Research Laboratory, USA,
Yannick Huot, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Lionel Guidi, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, France
Agency: NASA
Date: 2017-09-20 to 2020-12-20

Amount: $695,678.00

Evaluating Model Reanalyses of Arctic Aerosol Surface and Atmospheric Forcing by Assimilating OMI over ice
EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Jianglong Zhang
Agency: NASA
Date: 2017-06-01 to 2020-05-31

Amount: $839,508.00

Community of Practice Focusing on Career-Ready Skills
Principal Investigator: Cheryl Brown (North Dakota State College of Science)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: Frank Bowman
Co-Principal Investigator: LaCosta Potter
Agency: US Department of Education
Dates: 2016-2017
Amount: $300,000.00

Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) for bioenergy production and soil health
Principal Investigator: Thomas Sauer (USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: Eric Brevik
Co-Principal Investigators: John C. Tyndall (Iowa State University), Diomy Zamora (University of Minnesota), and Junyong Zhu (U.S. Forest Service)
Agency: North Central Sun Grant
Date: 2017-2018
Amount: $55,486.00

Optimal garden establishment and maintenance.
Principal Investigator: Linda Hugelen (United Tribes Technical College)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: Eric Brevik
Co-Principal Investigators: Patricia Aune and Frank Kutka
Agency: US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Date: 2016-2019
Amount: $222,000.00

Modeling water balance and flows of sediment and nutrient in Devils Lake watershed using SWAT
Principal Investigator: Afshin Shabani (University of North Dakota)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: Xiaodong Zhang
Agency: U.S. Geological Survey USGS
Dates: 2016-2017
Amount: $2,625.00

Investigation Seasonal and Annual Variability in Particulate Matter Pollution Over China
EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Jianglong Zhang
Agency: NASA
Dates: 2016
Amount: $90,000.00

Managing a sustainable landscape to support national pollination services
EPSCoR Principal Investigator: Haochi Zheng
Agency: US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Date: 2015
Amount: $360,201.00

Inferring Marine Particle Properties from Polarized Volume Scattering Function (IMPROVE)
Principal Investigator: Ping Yang (Texas A&M University)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: Xiaodong Zhang
Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Date: 2015
Amount: $640,000.00

MRI: Advancing Littoral Zone Aerosol Predcition via Holisitc Studies in Regime-Dependent Flows
Principal Investigator: Steven D. Miller (Colorado State University)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: Jianglong Zhang
Agency: Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Dates: 2015-2020
Amount: $918,113.00

Pilot Study on the Use of PXRF for Wastewater Analysis
Principal Investigator: David C. Weindorf (Texas Tech University)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: Eric Brevik
Agency: US Forest Service
Dates: 2015-2016
Amount: $2,500.00

Tropical Oceanic Thunderstorm Hazards
Principal Investigator: Michael R. Poellet (University of North Dakota)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: Gretchen Mullendore (University of North Dakota)
Agency: Northrop Grumman Corp
Dates: 2015-2016
Amount: $97,531.00

Community of Practice Focusing on Career-Ready Skills
Principal Investigator: Kristi Jean (North Dakota State College of Science)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: Frank Bowman
Agency: US Department of Education
Dates: 2015-2016
Amount: $300,000.00

Valuation of Optical Sensors for Detection and Remediation of Crop Stress in North Dakota Precision Agriculture
Principal Investigator: William W. Wilson (North Dakota State University)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: David C. Roberts
Agency: North Dakota Department of Commerce
Dates: 2015-2017
Amount: $300,000.00

REU Site: Interdisciplinary Renewable and Environmental Chemistry – IREC
Principal Investigator: Alena Kubatova (University of North Dakota, ND EPSCoR Center for Sustainable Materials Science)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: Frank Bowman
Agency: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Dates: 2015-2018
Amount: $270,000.00

Improvement of Convective/Severe Weather Prediction through an Integrative Analysis of WRF simulations and NEXRAD/GOES observations over the CONUS.
Principal Investigator: Xiquan Dong (University of North Dakota)
EPSCoR Co-Principal Investigator: Aaron Kennedy
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA)
Date: 2014
Amount: $492,000.00