Sponsored Projects – CUNY Remote Sensing Earth System Institute

Our Funders

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

U.S. Department of Energy

National Science Foundation

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

United States Geological Survey

National Geographic Society

City University of New York

Grants Received by Year

2025

Resilience to Growing Extreme Natural Hazards: Developing a Northeast Hazards Workforce, Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program, Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW) Award # DE-SC0025738, $ 2,185,000, February 01, 2025–January 31, 2028. PI: Devineni, N. Co-PIs: Merchant, S., Pei, T., Booth, J.F., Ramamurthy, P., Tang, H., Reed, K.A., Luo, F., O’Conner, D., Satkauskas, I., Bessac, J., Fan, J., Pringle, W.
Understanding climate and extreme weather events in the Greater New York Area, Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program, Research Development and Partnership Pilot (RDPP) Award # DE-SC0023174, $149,949, August 15, 2022–May 14, 2025. PI: Devineni, N. Co-PI: Booth, J.F.
Shifting Land-Ocean-Human Interdependencies in a Changing Arctic, National Geographic Society. Lead PI: M. Tzortziou Period of Award: 01/01/2025-12/31/2026.
Enhancing Water Ecosystem Resilience Through Revitalizing Local Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), National Science FoundationUniversity Corporation for Atmospheric Research (NSF UCAR). PI- Dr. Shakila Merchant, Co-PIs- Dr. Smita Ekka Dewan, Dr. Vartika Chandra Saman, Dr. Naresh Devineni, Partners Dr. Curtis Walker, Tribal Members of Mikmaq Nation, Presque Isle, ME and Urban Indigenous Collective (UIC), New York.

2024

Design & Techno-Economic Assessment Tool for ASHP Systems for Cooling, Heating and Hot Water – IUCRC – 60k. Co-PI- Prathap Ramamurthy (CCNY) and Jorge Gonzalez-Cruz (University at Albany)
Capacity Building to Catalyze Collaborations to Address Climate Change Impacts on Human Health (C2H2); National Science Foundation (NSF) AGS. 2024-2027; $105,000 (P Ramamurthy)
CUNY BIL Probable Maximum Precipitation for the Greater NYC region: Understanding its relation to climate change and developing risk mitigation and assessment (NOAA). $245,638. PI- James Booth
Earth System Modeling of Regional Sea Level Rise and Risk (NASA). $100,610. PI- James Booth.
CYGNSS-Based Analysis of Air-Sea Flux Impacts on Midlatitude Storm Development (NASA). $88,640 @CCNY. PI-James Booth.
OAR/NSSL and CSC Collaborative Science Research Project to Improve Precipitation Estimation (NOAA). $304,326. PI- James Booth.
CAIG: Unifying Landslide Domain Knowledge and AI to Understand Landslide Causality, NSF. $674,291, PI- Te Pei and Co-PI- Yingli Tian. 10/01/2024-09/31/2027.
Empowering Landslide Prediction and Community Resilience with Physics-Guided Knowledge Transfer, CUNY CIRG. PI- Te Pei and Co-PI- Yingli Tian, $45,350, 1/2024 – 12/2024.
The climate lighthouse: DOE-CCNY urban climate hazard resilience center, Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program, Climate Resilience Centers Award #TBD, $ 998,973, September 01, 2024–August 31, 2027. PI: Booth, J.F. Co-PIs: Devineni, N., Hill, S., Ramamurthy, P., Lamer, K., Kucheva, Y., Pilch-Loeb, R., Zhang, Z.
Accelnet Implementation Phase 1: International Network of Networks (S2S-AccelNet) for Accelerating S2S Hydroclimate Forecast Applications and Services, NSF AccelNet Program Award # 2412711, $120,000, September 01, 2024–August 31, 2028. PI: Arumugam, S. Co-PIs: Devineni, N., Robertson, A., de Queiroz, A., Mishra, A.
A global synthesis of flood impacts: Understanding the country-level vulnerability and causes, United States Geological Survey (USGS), John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis Working Group Award #TBD, $100,000 + two workshop travels to Denver, Colorado, and accommodation expenses for 15 scientists globally, October 01, 2024 September 30, 2026. PI: Devineni, N. Co-PI: Archfield, S.
Validation of Ocean Color VIIRS SNPP, NOAA-20, 21 satellite sensors on the coastal LISCO AERONET site and in ocean cruises. PI A. Gilerson, NOAA/UMD, 07/2024-06/2025
Retrieval of water parameters from hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging – NASA. PI A. Gilerson, 02/2021-02/2026.
The Lighthouse: DOE-CCNY Urban Hazard Resilience Center (DOE). PI-Jimmy Booth, $998,973.
NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program. NSF REU Site: Interdisciplinary Training for Research and Outreach in Climate Science (IT-ROCS), Total Funding: $323,978. Co-I (A. Carnaval, Y, Wyner, M. Tzortziou, R. Amderson, K. Block, J. Booth). Period of Award: 02/01/2024-01/31/2027.
NASA EVS Mission FORTE: Arctic Coastlines – Frontlines of Rapidly Transforming Ecosystems, NASA Earth Venture Suborbital (EVS-4) Lead PI-M. Tzortziou. Period of Award: 05/01/2024-01/31/2030.
Remote Sensing of Flood Risk and Water Quality In A Vulnerable Urban Coastal System NASA FINESST. Lead PI- M. Tzortziou Period of Award:10/01/2024-09/30/2026.
Predicting the Impact of Contemporary Climate Extremes on Nitrogen Flux along the Land-to-Ocean Continuum: Integrated Remote Sensing and Modeling Applied to the Mississippi River Basin, NASA Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science. Institutional PI: M. Tzortziou. Period of Award- 02/01/2024-01/31/2028.
Indo-US-Oman Partnership for Validating PACE Ocean Color Products in the rapidly changing-historically undersampled ecosystem of the Arabian Sea. NASA PACE Mission. Institutional PI- M. Tzortziou. Period of Award: 04/01/2024-03/31/2027.
Robin Hood Foundation: Learning Loss Recovery -4. Amount: $640,000. 2024–2025. Co-PI- Hamid Norouzi.
NASA: An Urban Information System to Assess Neighborhood Climate Risk and Daily Exposures in Cities. Amount: $677,656. 2024–2026, City Tech Sub-Award) | Technical Expert

2023

NSF: Collaborative Research: Damage Assessment of Coastal Structures Subject to Waterborne Debris Impact under Extreme Wind and Wave Conditions. Hansong Tang, $ 245,000.
EPA NY-CT Sea Grant Program. Actionable satellite water quality data products in LIS for improved management and societal benefits. Total Funding: $688,572. Lead PI: M. Tzortziou Period of Award: 03/01/2023-02/28/2025.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Exploring the Human Health Impact of Environmental Exposures: An Undergraduate Research Initiative. Amount: $115,000. 2024–2025. Co-PI – Hamid Norouzi, Collaborators: R. Blake (PI).
National Science Foundation (NSF): GEOPAths-UP: Recruiting and Retaining Non-Geoscience Minority STEM Majors for Geoscience Service Learning and Workforce Development_II. Amount: $491,069. 2023–2026. Co-PI Hamid Norouzi Collaborators: M. Nakamura, M. Azarderakhsh, R. Blake.
NASA Carbon Monitoring System: Continuing Prototype Product Development. An Alkalinity and Inorganic Blue Carbon Monitoring System: Crediting Wetland-to-Ocean Lateral Fluxes in Carbon Markets and Inventories. Total Funding: $1,199,695. Co-I/Institutional PI (K. Kroeger, Tzortziou, S. Crooks, Z.A. Wang, L. Windham-Myers). Period of Award: 07/01/2023-06/30/2026.
NASA Carbon Monitoring System: Continuing Prototype Product Development. Wet Carbon Monitoring and Accounting System for Urban Coastlines. Total Funding: $1,193,214.00. Co-I/Institutional PI-D. Peteet, M. Tzortziou, J. Goes, B. Lamb, R. Hood. Period of Award: 09/01/2023-08/30/2026.
I-Corps: Using Remote Sensing and Geospatial Data for Informed Climate Adaptation, Mitigation, Resiliency, and Environmentally Friendly Solutions. Award Period 02/15/2023-07/31/2023. Marzi Azarderakhsh, Principal Investigator of National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps) grant, $50,000.
Air source heat pump for space heating and cooling, IUCRC. $60k (2023). PI- Prathap Ramamurthy.
CISESS: CUNY Enhancing CRTM scattering calculations to improve the assimilation of ATMS observations, NOAA JPSS Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR). PI- Prathap Ramamurthy. $133,621. PI-Isaac Moradi.
Collaborative Research: SII-NRDZ: Spectrum Sharing via Consumption Models and Telemetry – Prototyping and Field Testing in an Urban FCC Innovation Zone, NSF. PI-Fred Moshary. $113,000. 3 years, 1/1/2023.
Ozone Lidar Observations and Application, NASA. PI-Fred Moshary. $60,000, 1 year 1/1/2023).
NESCAUM-New York Tropospheric Ozone Lidar System Observations. PI- Fred Moshary. $100,000. 1.2 years-10/1/2023 to 12/31/2023.
Extending VIIRS Ocean Color Neural Network retrievals to High Chlorophyll-a Algal Bloom Conditions through the Utilization of I1 VIIRS Imaging Band and VIIRS-OLCI Data Fusion (NOAA-UMD). $74,000. PI-Alex Gilerson.
North Atlantic Regional Team (NART) NYC Living Shoreline Assessment through community outreach, NOAA. 2023-2024. PI – Shakila Merchant, $20,000.
EPA NY-CT Sea Grant Program. Actionable satellite water quality data products in LIS for improved management and societal benefits. Total Funding: $688,572. Lead PI-Tzortziou. Period of Award: 03/01/2023-02/28/2025.
Growth versus suppression of atmospheric rivers: building new theory by leveraging CYGNSS winds and NASA-GISS Model: (NASA). $562,841. F. Booth.
A Terra-Aqua-SUOMI-NPP survey of environmental cloud controlling factors and associated uncertainties for the extratropical oceans (NASA). $154,342. F. Booth.
Collaborative Research: Characterization of oceanic post-cold frontal clouds and their model representation (DOE ASR program). $457,040, J.F. Booth.
The INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) Mission, NASA Earth-Venture Mission 3, PI: Susan van den Heever (co-I: J. Luo). Total amount to CUNY: $1,347,504 (total mission funding amount: $177M).
Diagnostic for Clouds and Precipitation in Extratropical Cyclones, NOAA. $28,655, F. Booth.
Department of Transportation/New York University (NYU): Tier 1 UTC: Connected Communities for Smart Mobility towards Accessible and Resilient Transportation for Equitably Reducing Congestion (C2SMARTER). Amount: $96,000. 2023–2029. PI – Hamid Norouzi, Collaborators: Ivan Guzman (Co-PI).
Robin Hood Foundation: Learning Loss Recovery -3. Amount: $640,000. 2023–2024. Co-PI- Hamid Norouzi.
National Science Foundation (NSF): GEOPAths-UP: Recruiting and Retaining Non-Geoscience Minority STEM Majors for Geoscience Service Learning and Workforce Development_II. Amount: $491,069. 2023–2026). Co-PI-Hamid Norouzi Collaborators: M. Nakamura, M. Azarderakhsh, R. Blake.
National Science Foundation (NSF): I-Corps: Using Remote Sensing and Geospatial Data for Informed Climate Adaptation, Mitigation, Resiliency, and Environmentally Friendly Solutions. Amount: $50,000. 2023–2024. PI – Hamid Norouzi

2022

NASA Carbon Cycle Science. Arctic Deltas and Coastal Margins as Buffers and Transformers of Carbon Along a Rapidly Changing Land-Ocean Continuum. Total Funding: $1,014,180. Lead PI: Tzortziou. Period of Award: 01/01/2022-12/31/2024.
NASA Citizen Science Program (Down-selection for CSESP 41 – by invitation only). Engaging Citizen Scientists to Monitor Water Quality in Chesapeake Bay. Total Funding: $1,120,078. Co-I/Institutional PI (P. Neale, M. Tzortziou, A. Cawood). Period of Award: 10/01/2022-09/30/2025.
Understanding climate and extreme weather events in the Greater New York Area, Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program, Research Development and Partnership Pilot (RDPP). $149,949, August 15, 2022–May 14, 2024. PI: Devineni, N. Co-PI: Booth, J.F.
A Framework for improving analysis and modeling of earth system and intersectoral dynamics at regional scales, Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program, HyperFACETS-V3 Consortium Award # DE-SC0016605, $592,840. September 15, 2022–September 14, 2025. Consortium’s Institutional PI and Northeast Storyline Lead- Devineni, N.
Ausable River Association: Survey of Climate Change in Adirondack Lake Ecosystems (SCALE) Pilot. Amount: $100,000 2022–2025. Co-PI-Hamid Norouzi.
Energizing Equity: Co-creating Scalable Urban Resilience via Climate Solidarity. $600 k. 2022. Co-PI- Prathap Ramamurthy.
Developing Algorithms for Energy use Forecasting. $40k. 2022. Co-PI- Prathap Ramamurthy.
Impact of Climate Change on Adirondack Lakes Using Remote Sensing Satellite Observations. Award Period: 2022-2024. Marzi Azarderakhsh Principal Investigator of New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NY DEC) grant. $100,000.
The INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) Mission, awarded by NASA Earth-Venture Mission 3. PI: Susan van den Heever (co-I: Z. J. Luo). Total amount to CUNY: $1,347,504 (total mission funding amount: $177M). Period of award: 10/1/2022 – 9/30/2029.
NSF-Advancement of Research Impacts on the Society (ARIS) Development of CUNY Broader Impact Framework NSF (subcontract for Rutgers University). 2022-2024. PI – Shakila Merchant $25,000.
Robin Hood Foundation, Responding to Learning Loss: Post Pandemic Academic Recovery for In-Coming Freshmen at the New York City College of Technology -2 (City Tech). $750,000. PI-R. Blake, Co-PI- Norouzi). 2022-2023.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Implementation Grant: Implementing Novel Solutions for Promoting Cultural Change in Geoscience Research & Education (INSPIRE). $7,339,241 (City Tech portion $1,061,858). Columbia University PIs (V. Ferrini, R. Bell, and V. Purdie-Greenaway), City Tech co-PIs-R. Blake and H. Norouzi. 2022-2027.
Department of Energy, Sustainable DoE Partnerships to Advance Fundamental Research in Earth and Environmental System Sciences at an Underrepresented Institution. $88,146. PI-H. Norouzi, Co-PIs ( Blake and A. Rahman. 2022-2024.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Implementation Grant: Implementing Novel Solutions for Promoting Cultural Change in Geoscience Research & Education (INSPIRE). $7,339,241 (City Tech portion $1,061,858), Columbia University PIs (V. Ferrini, R. Bell, and V. Purdie-Greenaway), City Tech co-PIs -R. Blake and H. Norouzi). 2022-2027.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Developing an Ecosystem of STEM Success for Built Environment Majors. $1,499,481, PI (M. Villatoro), Co-PIs-H. Norouzi, M, Nakamura, D. Kang, and M. Ummy. 2022-2028.
Validation of Ocean Color VIIRS SNPP and VIIRS NOAA-20 satellite sensors on the coastal LISCO AERONET site and in ocean cruises (NOAA-UMD). $71,999, PI Alex Gilerson.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing at NOAA-CESSRST: Enhanced Engagement. $590,500, PI-R. Blake, Co-PI-H. Norouzi. 2022-2025.
Developing a satellite-based convective mass flux dataset for evaluating and improving GCM cumulus parameterization, awarded by NASA CloudSat and CALIPSO Science Team Recompete in April 2022. PI: J. Luo, Total amount: $573,240. Period of award: 10/1/2022 – 9/30/2025.
Developing a satellite-based convective mass flux dataset for evaluating and improving GCM cumulus parameterization, awarded by NASA CloudSat and CALIPSO Science Team Recompete in April 2022. PI: Z. J. Luo, Total amount: $573,240. Period of award: 10/1/2022 – 9/30/2026.
Exploring A-Train observations of land-ocean contrast in convective cloud characteristics and their ambient environment toward improving GCM cumulus parameterization, awarded by NASA CloudSat and CALIPSO Science Team Recompete in April 2022,. PI: Z. J. Luo.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Implementation Grant: INSPIRE – Implementing Novel Solutions for Promoting Cultural Change in Geoscience Research & Education. Amount: $7,339,241. 2022–2025. City Tech Co-PI – Hamid Norouzi.
Exploring A-Train observations of land-ocean contrast in convective cloud characteristics and their ambient environment toward improving GCM cumulus parameterization, awarded by NASA CloudSat and CALIPSO Science Team Recompete in April 2022, PI: Hanii Takahashi (institutional PI: Z. J. Luo). Total amount to CUNY: $42,456. Period of award: 10/1/2022-9/30/2026.
NYSERDA-Ground-based and satellite remote sensing of atmospheric dynamics and constituents. Fred Moshary, PI; $340,000. 2.5 years. 10/1/2022.
NOAA Cooperative Science Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies II. PI-Fred Moshary. $30,000,000 for 5 years 09/1/2022.
NASA, Retrieval of water parameters from hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging. Co-PI-Fred Moshary. $675,000. 3 years 02/01/2021.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM), Developing an Ecosystem of STEM Success for Built Environment Majors. $1.5M. PI-Hamidreza Norouzi.
International Research Experience for Students (IRES) National Science Foundation (NSF), CUNY India Pollution Study (CIPS). $300,000, PI-Neal Phillip, Brian Vant-Hull, Paramita Sen.
NOAA- Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research (CSTAR) Program, Integrating Environmental Justice into NWS Services to Reduce the Vulnerability of Historically Underserved Socially Vulnerable Communities (HUSVCs) to Extreme Weather Events. $450,000, PI- Reza Khanbilvardi, Kaveh Madani.
US State Department Public Diplomacy, CUNY- India Climate Collaborative (CICC). PIs-Neal Phillip, Paramita Sen.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Damage assessment of coastal structures subject to waterborne debris impact under extreme wind and wave conditions. $245,616. PI-Hansong Tang– 2022-2025.
US Department of Energy, Sustainable DoE Partnerships to Advance Fundamental Research in Earth and Environmental System Sciences at an Underrepresented Institution. PI-Hamidreza Norouzi, Co-PI-Reginald Blake, Akm Rahman.
US Department of Energy, Research Development and Partnership Pilot Program, Understanding Climate and Extreme Weather Events in the Greater New York Area. $150,000. PI-Naresh Devineni, Co-PI-James Booth.
CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI), Providing Mentored Student Research Opportunity to Achieve Equity and Environmental. PI-Marzi Azarderakhsh, Co-PI-Hamidreza Norouzi, Reginald Blake.
NSF-ARIS, Developing Research Impact on Society – Broadening Impact (BI) Toolkit. Co-PI-Shakila Merchant.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Implementing Novel Solutions for Promoting Cultural Change in Geoscience Research & Education (INSPIRE). Co-PIs- Hamidreza Norouzi, Reginald Blake.
NASA, Carbon Cycle Science, Arctic Deltas and Coastal Margins as Buffers and Transformers of Carbon Along a Rapidly Changing Land-Ocean Continuum. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2022-2024.
Robin Hood Foundation: Responding to Learning Loss: Post-Pandemic Academic Recovery for In-Coming Freshmen at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech)-2. Amount: $750,000 (2022–2023). Co-PI- Hamid Norouzi.
Department of Energy (DOE): Sustainable DOE Partnerships to Advance Fundamental Research in Earth and Environmental System Sciences at an Underrepresented Institution. Amount: $88,445 (2022–2025). PI- Hamid Norouzi.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing at NOAA-CESSRST: Enhanced Engagement. Amount: $590,500. 2022–2025. Co-PI- Hamid Norouzi.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Developing an Ecosystem of STEM Success for Built Environment Majors. Amount: $1,499,481 (2022–2028). Co-PI- Hamid Norouzi.

2021

Science and Management Support for GOES-R ABI Snow EDR, NOAA. Co-PIs-Jeff Key, Peter Romanov. $65K/year, 2021-2023.
A Geometric Optical Radiative Transfer (GORT) Approach to Quantify Impacts of Ecosystem Structure on Land Carbon Stocks and Fluxes Using GEDI Full Waveforms in a Demographic Dynamic Vegetation Model, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) GEDI Science Team Program. PI: Wenge Ni-Meister, Co-I Nancy Kiang. $509K ($394K to Hunter). 1/2021-12/2024.
Robin Hood Foundation, Responding to Learning Loss: Post Pandemic Academic Recovery for In-Coming Freshmen at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech). $ 600,000. PI-R. Blake, Co-PIs-H. Norouzi. 2021-2023.
High School Initiatives in Remote Sensing of the Earth System Engineering and Sciences (HIRES), Pinkerton Foundation. 2021-2024. PI – Shakila Merchant. $285,000.
NSF-Convective Cloud Urban Boundary-layer Experiment. Co-PI-Fred Moshary. $663,301, 3 years 08/1/2021.
CIRA, Machine learning for solar power forecasting in Puerto Rico using GOES-R cloud imagery. $75,0000. I yearPI-Nir Krakauer, Tarendra Lakhankar. 2021-2022.
CUNY Interdisciplinary Research Grant,Biological Feedbacks in the Atmospheric CO_2. $40,000, Co-PI-Nir Krakauer. 2021-2022.
Department of Education (DOE), MSI STEM Research & Development Consortium (MSRDC),Development of Sustainable Heat Pump Systems for Electrified Transitions in Winter Markets. $700,000, Co-PI- Prathap Ramamurthy.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA),Retrieval of water parameters from hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging. $675,487. PI-Alex Gilerson. 2021-2024.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/ Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS), Methane emissions from tropical wetlands: Characterizing a critical terrestrial carbon cycle process using inundation extent and dynamics derived from CYGNSS.$$, PI-Kyle McDonald. 2021-present.
Robin Hood Foundation, Responding to Learning Loss: Post Pandemic Academic Recovery for In-Coming Freshmen at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech. $600,000, PI-R. Blake, Co-PIs (H. Norouzi. 2021-2022.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-WPO, A New Global 4-km Multi-Decadal Snow Cover Extent/Snow Water Equivalent/Snow Depth Dataset from Blended In-situ and Satellite Observations. $277,000. 2 years. PI-Peter Romanov. 2021-2023.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-STAR, GOES-R AWG Science and Management Support for Snow Cover Environmental Data Records. $66,000/year, PI-Peter Romanov. 2021-2022.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration -STAR, Support to STAR for Eumetsat EPS-SG Snow Cover Products. $30,000/year, PI-Peter Romanov. 2021-2022.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Center for Satellite Applications and Research (NOAA-STAR),Extending VIIRS Ocean Color Neural Network retrievals to High Chlorophyll-a Algal Bloom. $212,000, PI-Alex Gilerson. 2021-2024.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Center for Satellite Applications and Research (NOAA-STAR),Validation of Ocean Color VIIRS SNPP and VIIRS NOAA-20 satellite sensors on the coastal LISCO AERONET site and in ocean cruises. $70,175, PI -Alex Gilerson. 2021-2022.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Build and Broaden 2.0, STEM Participation through Community Air Quality Sensor Networks & Data Science During the Pandemic. $179,950, Co-PI-Neal Phillip. 2021-2023.
National Science Foundation (NSF), IUCRC Phase 1: The City College of New York: Center for Building Energy Smart Technologies (BEST). $1,500,000. PIs-Jorge Gonzalez, and Prathap Ramamurthy. 2021-2026.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Satellite Applications and Research (NOAA-STAR), CICESS-CUNY-Science and Management Support. $213,731. PI-Peter Romanov. 2021-2023.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Convective cloud Urban Boundary layer Experiment (CUBE). $660,000. PI-Prathap Ramamurthy. 2021.
Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB), Coastal Arctic biogeochemical data synthesis in preparation for Arctic-COLORS. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2021-2023.
NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Program, Remote Sensing of Environmental Change in Arctic Coastal Aquatic Ecosystems. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2021-2024.
NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Program, Retrieval of Coastal and Inland Water Inherent Optical Properties based on Scientific Machine Learning Methods and Comprehensive Radiative Transfer Simulations. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2021-2024.
NASA Citizen Science for Earth Systems Program, Engaging Citizen Scientists to Monitor Water Quality in Chesapeake Bay. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2021-2025.

2020

City University of New York Collaborative Incentive Research Grant (CUNY CIRG), Heat and The City: understanding the impact of urban thermodynamics on ecological and social vulnerability, CUNY CIRG. $50,000. PI-Prathap Ramamurthy.
Department of Defense (DOD), Army Research Office (ARO), Resolving the dynamic interactions in the urban boundary layer. $360,000. PI-Prathap Ramamurthy.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Remote Sensing Theory Effort, Parameterizing Microwave Scattering Models with Vegetation Structural Observations: Informing Multi-Frequency Radar with LIDAR. PI-Kyle McDonald. 2020-present.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL) ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS), Advancing Synergies Between ECOSTRESS and SAR for Study of Structure and Thermal Regimes in Tropical, Temperate and Cold Landscapes. Co-PI-Kyle Mcdonald.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Development and implementation of a new set of enhanced GOES-R ABI snow cover products. $160,000/year. PI-Peter Romanov. 2020-2022.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/ National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), Cloud Mask and Quality Control (CM/QC) for Sea Surface Temperature (SST) products from VIIRS. $218,192. PI-Irina Gladkova. 2020-2021.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/ National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), Multi-sensor high-resolution gridded (super)-collated SST ACSPO L3C/L3S products. $115.457. PI Irina Gladkova. 2020-2021.
National Science Foundation (NSF), GEOPAths-UP: Recruiting and Retaining Non-geoscience Minority STEM Majors for Geoscience Service Learning and for the Geoscience Workforce. $294,354, PI-R. Blake, Co-PIs- Liou-Mark, H. Norouzi, M. Nakamura. 2020-2022.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Learning Transferable Visual Features. $241,143. PI-Yingli Tian. 2020-2022.
National Science Foundation (NSF), SCC: Developing technological solutions to improve indoor air quality and thermal comfort in urban communities. $141,000, PI (Prathap Ramamurthy.
US Department of Education (DOE), CIPASS-ExL: Experiential Learning and Industry Engagement for Workforce Readiness. $3,000,000. PI-Jorge Gonzalez. 2020-2025.
NSF DEB – Ecosystem Science, RAPID: Collaborative Research: Understanding linkages between nutrient quality and phytoplankton assemblage responses to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders in an urban, estuarine system. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2020-2022.
NASA NNH20ZDA001N-RRNES, Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science (RRNES), Integrating multidisciplinary observations to understand the linkages between air quality and coastal ecology during the COVID-19 pandemic. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2020-2022.
NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program, MRI: Acquisition of a versatile, integrative AUV system to support cross-disciplinary research and education in coastal and urban waters. Co-PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2020-2023.
NASA NNH17ZDA004O-EVI5: Earth Venture Instrument – 5, GLIMR: A hyperspectral geostationary sensor for measurement of dynamic coastal ecosystem and carbon cycle processes. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2020-2028.

Archives - 2019-2014

2019

City College Initiative to Promote Academic Success in STEM (CIPASS), iWStress: An intelligent platform for understanding water stress in the United States. $15,000, PI- Naresh Devineni. Co-PI-Etemadpour, R. 2019.
Microsoft AI for Earth Grant, A data-driven tool to understand water stress in the United States. $15,000. PI-Naresh Devineni, Co-PI-Etemadpour, R. 2019–2020.
NASA CloudSat and CALIPSO Science Team Recompete, Using A-Train Observations to Explore Properties of Entraining Convection and Its Representation in Models. $106,574. PI-Hanii Takahashi, Co-PI-Johnny Luo. 2019-2022.
NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST), A tropospheric transport diagnostic for chemistry-climate models. $127,100. PI-Johnny Luo. 2019-2022.
NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST), Faculty Mentorship Program. $100,000. PI-Barry Gross. 2019-2020.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA Indian Space Research Organization Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (NASA-ISRO ASAR). Discerning Freeze/Thaw State of Land Surface Components with L and S Band Radar. $$, Co-PI-Kyle McDonald. 2019-present.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), Characterizing Terrestrial Surface Hydrodynamics and Biodiversity with Synthetic Aperture Radar: Contributions to NISAR Science. $$, PI- Kyle McDonald. 2019-present.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Fusing NASA ECOSTRESS and NOAA GOES-16 Datasets for Study of Thermal Regimes and Water Stress in Terrestrial Systems. $$, Co-PI-Kyle McDonald.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/ Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction Program (under CISESS/CREST Program), Intercalibration of satellite observations using Artificial Intelligence. $205,100. PI-Isaac Moradi. 2019-2021.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA-JPSS), AutoSnow and Ice (GMASI) products Enterprise Algorithm Migration. $100,000/year. PI-Peter Romanov. 2019-2021.
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), Multi-sensor monitoring and analysis of pollutants distribution, dynamics and related meteorology in New York City and vicinity for better characterization of processes that lead to air quality episodes. $250,000. Co-PI-Barry Gross. 2019-2021.
S. Agency for International Development (USAID), An Integrated Modeling Approach for Sustainable Development for the Ichkeul. $79,540, PI-B. Bejaoui, US Partners-H. Norouzi and R. Blake. 2019-2023.
NY Sea Grant Program EPA Award LI96261317-0, Refined Integration of Remote Sensing with Biological Parameters for Improved Management of Long Island Sound Water Quality. PI- Maria Tzortziou. 2019-2022.

2018

Caltech Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS), Unlocking a New Era in Biodiversity Science: Linking Integrated Space Based and In-Situ Observations. Co-PI- Kyle McDonald. 2018-present.
Department of Defense (DOD), Army Research Office (ARO), Towards Understanding Urban Surface Energy Budget. $60,000 Partial Award, PI-Prathap Ramamurthy.
NASA MEaSUREs (Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments), A unified cloud-defined weather state dataset for process-resolving data analysis and model evaluation. $781,885, PI-George Tselioudis. Co-PI-Johnny Luo. 2018-2023.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Addressing Essential Biodiversity Variables with Imaging Radar Remote Sensing. Co-PI-Kyle McDonald.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/ Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction Program (under CISESS Program), Radiative Transfer Models Inter-comparison in Support of GSICS and JPSS Satellite Data Calibration. $102,800. PI-Isaac Moradi. 2018-2019.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA-JPSS), Science and Management Support for VIIRS Snow Cover Environmental Data Records. $140,000/year. PI-Peter Romanov. 2018-2022.
National Science Foundation (NSF), GP-EXTRA: Expanding an Innovative Pathway to Replenish the Geoscience Workforce with Underrepresented Minority Non-Geoscience STEM Majors. $309,911, PI-R. Blake, Co-PIs-J. Liou-Mark, Norouzi, D. Steele. 2018-2020.
National Science Foundation (NSF), CRISP Type 2: Integrated Socio-Technical Modeling Framework to Evaluate and Enhance Resiliency in Islanded Communities (ERIC). $2,068,000. PI-Jorge Gonzalez in partnership with Arizona State University, New York University and University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. 2018-2022.
National Science Foundation (NSF), HSI Conference: URBANO-INCREASING ACCESS AND SUCCESS IN URBAN STEM PROGRAMS. $100,000, PI-Jorge Gonzalez.
National Science Foundation (NSF), RAPID: Supplemental. $10,000, PI-Prathap Ramamurthy.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Urban Climate and Resiliency Workshop. $50,000. PI-Jorge Gonzalez.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Dynamics of atmospheric trace gases (ozone and NO2) over highly polluted estuarine and coastal regions. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2018-2018.
NASA commercial data buy assessment, Evaluation of Commercial Satellite Observations for Coastal Ecosystem Science Studies. Co-PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2018-2020.
NASA Remote Sensing of Water Quality Program, Impacts of estuarine processes on delivery of Arctic riverine materials to the near coastal environment: Implications for water quality and biogeochemical cycling. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2018-2022.

2017

City of New York, New York City Built Environment: Wind Effects and Public Safety in a Changing Climate. $561,000, Co-PI-Jorge Gonzalez. 2017-2018.
Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program, Early CAREER, Award # DESC0018124, Multi-scale modeling of extreme events and impact information. $762,097. PI-Naresh Devineni. 2017–2022.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), CASTOR Campus rainwater design. $3000, PI-Naresh Devineni. 2017–2018.
NASA Aura Science Team and Atmospheric Composition Modeling and Analysis Program (ACMAP), Estimating Convective Entrainment Rates Using Aura CO to Guide GEOS-5 Convective Parameterization Improvements. $106,574. PI-Hui su, Co-PI-Johnny Luo. 2017-2020.
NASA Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction (MAP), Assessing Satellite-Based Estimates of Convective Mass Fluxes and Evaluating GCM Simulations of Tropical Convection. $813,908. PI-Johnny Luo. 2017-2021.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Carbon Cycle Science Project, Ecological and sociodemographic determinants and impacts of urbanization and restoration on intertwined urban-wetland estuarine systems. Co-PI-Kyle McDonald. 2017-present.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Interdisciplinary Study, Coastal Hypoxia Analysis and Risk Tracking (CHART) through Remote Sensing and Process based Modeling in South and Southeast Asia. Co-PI-Kyle McDonald. 2017-present.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/ Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction Program (under CISESS Program), Radiative Transfer Modelling Studies in Support of JPSS Satellite Data Calibration and Data Assimilation. $102,800, PI-Isaac Moradi. 2017-2018.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Collaborative Research: AGEP-T: The Hispanic Alliance for the Graduate Education and the Professoriate on Environmental Sciences and Engineering. $3,200,000, PI-Jorge Gonzalez in partnership with U. of Texas-El Paso. 2017-2022.
National Science Foundation (NSF), UCRC Planning proposal: Center for Building Energy Smart Technologies. $15,000. Co-PI-Prathap Ramamurthy.
National Science Foundation (NSF), RAPID: Impacts of Post-Hurricane Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Convective and Precipitation Processes in the Caribbean Region. $175,000. Co-PI-Jorge Gonzalez. 2017-2018.
National Science Foundation (NSF), RAPID: Impacts of post-hurricane land-atmosphere interactions on convective and precipitation processes in the Caribbean Region. $184,824. PI-Prathap Ramamurthy.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Urban Climate and Resiliency Workshop. $50,000, Co-PI-Prathap Ramamurthy.
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), EMEP Faculty Mentor PhD Fellowship Support. $70,000. PI-Barry Gross. 2017-2018.
80NSSC17K0365, NASA Science Mission Directorate, Tidal wetland inundation and vegetation phenology from space – A novel approach for characterizing ecological health and carbon exchanges in coastal wetlands. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2017-2020.
80NSSC17K0258, NASA Interdisciplinary Science Program, Ecological and sociodemographic determinants and impacts of urbanization and restoration on intertwined urban-wetland-estuarine systems. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2017-2022.
80NSSC17K0413, NASA Interdisciplinary Science Program, Coastal Hypoxia Analysis and Risk Tracking (CHART) through Remote Sensing and Process-based Modeling in South and Southeast Asia. Co-PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2017-2022.

2016

Graduate Research Technology Initiative (GRTI), Characterizing energy fluxes in urban areas. $36,000. PI-Prathap Ramamurthy. 2016.
Graduate Research Technology Initiative (GRTI), Surface Heat Energy Balance Characterization in Urban Regions Using Ground and Satellite Observations. $75,100. PI- H. Norouzi, Co-PI-R. Blake and G. Shields. 2016-2017.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Assessing Impacts of Climate-Induced Change on River Flow and Associated Economic Output in the High Mountain Asia Region. $1,151,980. Co-PI- Nir Krakauer. 2016-2019.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mountain High Asia Study, Assessing Impacts of Climate Induced Change on River Flow and Economic Output in the High Mountain Asia Region. PI-Kyle McDonald. 2016-2021.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Utilization of Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Study, Monitoring seasonal soil frost dynamics in boreal-Arctic ecosystems with SMAP. PI-Kyle McDonald. 2016-2020.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Utilization of Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Study, Assessing and Downscaling SMAP data for Organic Soil Fuel Moisture Estimation in Boreal-Arctic Ecosystems. Co-PI-Kyle McDonald. 2016-2020.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), A Multi-Sensor Calibration Algorithm for Improving Emissivity Retrieval by Integrating Microwave Brightness Temperature Diurnal Cycle. $363,397. PI-H. Norouzi, Co-PI- M. Azarderakhsh. 2016-2021.
Professional Staff Congress of The City University of New York (PSC-CUNY), A novel climate impacts tool for managing risks in water utilities. $5,999. PI-Naresh Devineni. 2016–2017.
US Department of Education, CCNY Initiative to Promote Academic Success in STEM (CiPASS). $5,500,000, PI-Jorge Gonzalez. 2016-2021.
NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OBB) Program, Dynamics of atmospheric trace gases and aerosols in Korean coastal waters: Impacts on Ocean Color atmospheric correction and surface air-pollution studies. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2016-2019.
National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Advancing Informal STEM Learning, Northwest Passage Project (NPP). Co-PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2016 – 2020.
NNX16AQ53A, NASA Applied Science Program, Satellite Ocean Color Observations from NASAs PACE and ACE missions: Applications and Societal Benefits. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2016 – 2021.
NSF DEB – Ecosystem Studies, Ecosystems on the Edge – Tidal wetland-estuary margins as buffers, reactors, and transformers of organic C and N. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2016 – 2022.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center – CESSRST. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2016 -2022.

2015

CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grant Program, New concepts for observing and understanding changing patterns of water limitation on ecosystem productivity. $30,000. PI-Nir Karkauer. 2015-2016.
Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Army Research Laboratory, ARO, Instrumentation for Exploring Surface Energy Balance using a combination of Satellite and Ground-Based Observations. $70,752, PI-H. Norouzi. 2015-2016.
Graduate Research Technology Initiative (GRTI), Characterizing Surface Fluxes and Aerosol Loading within NYC’s Heterogeneous, Urban Coastal Environment. $187,952. PI-R. Blake, Co-PI-H. Norouzi, Vladutescu, G. Gailani. 2015-2016.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/CPO, Forecasting risk of seasonal temperature extremes with the North American Multi-Model Ensemble. $69,688. PI-Nir Krakauer. 2015-2017.
National Science Foundation (NSF), GP-EXTRA: Recruiting and Retaining Non-geoscience Minority STEM Majors for the Geoscience Workforce. $496,786. PI-R. Blake, Co-PIs-J. Liou-Mark, Norouzi, V. Vladutescu. 2015-2018.
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)/ PowerBridge NY, Energy Forecasting for Dense Urban Environments. $150,000, PI Jorge Gonzalez. 2015-2017.
PSC-CUNY, Groundwater mapping and other applications of large-scale supervised classification. $3,500, PI-Nir Krakauer. 2015-2016.
S. Army Research Laboratory (ARO) The Potential of Using Microwave Emission in Detecting Freeze and Thaw States. $238,375. PI-H. Norouzi, Co-PI-R. Blake. 2015-2018.
S. Army Research Office, ARO, Developing an Approach to Map Air Surface Maxima and Minima Temperatures by Exploring Surface Energy Balance. $49,785. PI-H. Norouzi, Co-PI-P. Ramamurthy. 2015-2016.
United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Improved Access to Relevant and Usable Climate Information. $306,000, PI-Jorge Gonzalez. 2015-2018.
University of Utah, Global Center for Advanced Studies on Water Subcontract. $200,000. PI-Nir Krakauer. 2015-2019.
US Army Research Office (ARO), Developing an Approach to Map Air Surface Maxima and Minima Temperatures by Exploring Surface Energy Balance. $50,000, Co-PI-Prathap Ramamurthy.
USAID IPM-IL, Participatory Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment for Integrated Pest Management in the Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape, Nepal. $804,777. PI Nir Krakauer. 2015-2019.
S. Army Research Office, ARO: Developing an Approach to Map Air Surface Maxima and Minima Temperatures by Exploring Surface Energy Balance. Amount: $49,785. 2015–2016. PI- Hamid Norouzi

2014

National Science Foundation (NSF) Water Sustainability and Climate Program/Columbia University, WSC-Category 3 Collaborative: America’s water–The changing landscape of risk, competing demand and climate, Award #1360446, $182,293. PI-Lall, U. Co-PI-Naresh Devineni. 2014–2018.
National Science Foundation (NSF), Impacts of Urbanization and Climate Change on the Energy Infrastructure of Tropical Coastal Regions. $327,000, PI-Jorge Gonzalez. 2014-2018.
National Science NSF Paleoclimate Program, Collaborative Research: P2C2–Multisite paleo-reconstruction of Missouri River streamflows from tree ring data, Award # 1401698. $117,120. PI-Naresh Devineni. 2014–2017.
NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OBB) Program, Application of existing and new high-resolution, hyper-spectral observations in the UV-NIR to assess GEO-CAPE measurement and instrument requirements for capturing CDOM and DOC short-term & small scale dynamics and understanding impacts of O3 and NO2 on GEO-CAPE ocean color retrievals. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2014 – 2017.
NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OBB) Program, PACE Science Team Membership – PACE Ocean Applications: Maximizing the societal value while mitigating the risk of the PACE mission. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2014-2018.
NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry (OBB) Program, Land-Ocean Interactions in the Arctic: An Integrative Field Campaign to Assess the Impacts of Natural- and Anthropogenic Changes to Coastal Ocean Biology, Biogeochemistry and Biodiversity. PI- Maria Tzortziou. 2014 – 2018.
NASA/USDA/DOE/NOAA Carbon Cycle Science Program, Tidal wetlands as sources and sinks of carbon in a changing world: Remote Sensing, Measurements and Modeling of Wetland-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2014-2019.
NASA/USDA/DOE/NOAA Carbon Cycle Science Program, The carbon budget of tidal wetlands and estuaries of the contiguous United States: a synthesis approach. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2014-2019.
NASA Applied Sciences Program, DPA Lead for GEOCAPE – Geostationary for Coastal and Air Pollution Events mission. PI-Maria Tzortziou. 2014-2019.
National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): NOAA-CREST Land Emissivity Products from Passive Microwave Observations. Amount: $50,000. 2012–2014. Co-PI- Hamid Norouzi

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