Funded Research Projects 

External Grants [Current]

• NSF EAGER: Valley fever incidence, spread and future expansion in Texas (NSF)

• Synergetic Surface-based and Satellite-borne Measurements of Arid-region Aerosol and Precipitation (S3-MAAP). (NASA)

Other External supports from grants/funding [Current]

• CIWRO Peter Lamb Postdoc at TTU as the potential advisor. Funded by Department of Commerce / NOAA. Project: Understanding Land-Atmosphere Feedback in Dryland Ecosystems: Integrating Observations and Models to Improve Weather Forecasts. [2024-2026]

External Grants (Completed)

• EXploring Land-Atmosphere Interaction over Dryland during Morning and Evening Transitions (XLAID-MET) : NSF 

• Employing a combined observation and simulation-based framework to investigate spatio-temporal variability in urban heat and associated heat advection [NOAA]

• Multi-instrument observations of greenhouse gases across frontal boundary and comparison with WRF-Chem simulations [NASA]

• Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Airborne Science Planning and Real-Time Column Mole Fraction Estimates for Integrated Path Differential Absorption Lidar [NASA]

• Variations in ozone concentrations over the Île-de-France region associated with spatiotemporal characteristics of atmospheric boundary layer dynamics [State of Ile de France, Paris, France]

Internal Grants [Completed]

• Atmospheric Boundary Layer Research Over Arid Domain (ABL-ROAD): A Pilot Study

• Combined lidar and tower-based investigation of atmospheric boundary layer turbulence and entrainment zone processes

• Exploring the complexities in atmospheric boundary layer dynamics over mountainous regions using lidar and in-situ observations