Projects

Laboratory and modeling studies of cloud susceptibility to hygroscopic seeding
Source of Support: UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science
Award Period: 03/2024-02/2027

International Visiting Scientists to Support Development of the Aerosol‐Cloud‐Drizzle Convection Chamber (ACDC2)
Source of Support: Simons Foundation
Award Period: 11/2023-10/2025

AGS-FIRP Track 2: Untangling the physics of aerosol activation, turbulence, and drizzle formation: Pi Chamber experiments and numerical simulation
Source of Support: Notre Dame University (prime: NSF)
Award Period: 09/2022-08/2025

CIF: Making the Pi Convection-Cloud Chamber Available to the Community for Aerosol-Cloud-Turbulence Research
Source of Support: NSF
Award Period: 09/01/2021-08/31/2026
PI Shaw, CoPIs Cantrell, C. Mazzoleni, and L. Mazzoleni

Laboratory Investigations of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in an Entraining, Turbulent Environment
Source of Support: DOE ASR
Award Period: 09/01/2021-08/31/2024
PI Cantrell, CoPIs Shaw; Collaborator: Fan Yang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

A Community Laboratory Facility for Exploring and Sensing of Aerosol-Cloud-Drizzle Processes: The Aerosol-Cloud-Drizzle Convection Chamber
Source of Support: NSF
Award Period: 08/15/2021-07/31/2025
PI Shaw, CoPIs R. Flagan (California Institute of Technology), S. Krueger (University of Utah), J. Fuentes (Penn State), and P. Kollias (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

LAACI – Light Absorbing Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Experiment
Source of Support: DOE ASR
Award Period: 08/01/2020-07/31/2023
PI C. Mazzoleni, CoPIs Cantrell, L. Mazzoleni, T. Onasch (Aerodyne Research), S. Schum, and Shaw; Collaborators: L. Fierce, Y. Liu, A. Sedlacek (Brookhaven National Laboratory), and S. China (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Laboratory measurements of cloud scavenging of interstitial aerosol in a turbulent environment
Source of Support: DOE ASR
Award Period: 09/01/2018-08/30/2021
PI Cantrell, CoPIs C. Mazzoleni and Shaw

Laboratory studies of the effect of turbulence on aerosol-cloud interactions
Source of Support: NSF
Award Period: 01/01/2018-12/31/2021
PI Shaw, CoPI Cantrell

Aerosol indirect effects on optical properties of turbulent clouds
Source of Support: NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program
Award Period: 09/01/2017 – 08/31/2019
PI Shaw, Student Fellowship Chandrakar

An investigation of the suitability of a laboratory cloud chamber for optical radiative transfer measurements
Source of Support: Air Force Research Laboratory
Award Period: 11/01/2016-10/30/2018
PI Shaw, CoPIs Cantrell, C. Mazzoleni

MRI Development: Water vapor and temperature mapping to study cloud-turbulence interactions in the MTU Π-chamber
Source of support: NSF
Award Period: 09/01/2016-08/31/2020
PI C. Mazzoleni, Co-PIs Borysow, Cantrell, Shaw

EAGER: Exploring Aerosol Indirect Effects in a Laboratory Cloud Chamber
Source of Support: NSF
Award Period: 02/01/2016-01/31/2018
PI Shaw, CoPI Cantrell

MRI: Development of a Multiphase Turbulent Reaction Chamber for Laboratory Studies of Atmospheric Aerosol and Cloud Processes
Source of Support: NSF
Award Period: 10/01/2010-09/30/2015
PI Shaw, CoPIs Cantrell, C. Mazzoleni, and L. Mazzoleni