Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2309 The University of Texas at San Antonio (144197)
Principal Investigator: Mestas-Nunez, Alberto
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 590,017
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 9/1/22 - 8/31/27
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: none
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Camee UTSA
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: An Air Quality Monitoring Station to Expand NASA€™s Pandora Network to South Texas
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
National Aeronautic and Space Administration - NASA
CFDA Link: NASA
43.001
Program Title:
none
CFDA Linked: Aerospace Education Services Program
Note:
SAMs 1.1.1; In this research project, we propose to expand NASAs Pandora global air quality network to South Texas by adding a station in the downtown campus of University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The proposed site has been chosen to target pollution from transportation exhaust, one of the main sources of air pollution in San Antonio, the 7th largest city in the U.S. Notably, the EPA ozone classification of San Antonio and surrounding areas was recently downgraded from marginal to moderate nonattainment, and is expected to worsen as the city continues to grow if no abatement measures are taken. Our research team includes remote sensing, engineering, and urban climatology scientists from UTSAs NASA MIRO Center for Advanced Measurements in Extreme Environments (CAMEE). The observations from the Pandora spectrometer proposed here along with the NASA satellite data involved in ground truthing will be used by UTSA scientists, students, and collaborators in air pollution, climate, and urban planning research. In addition, the observations and products from the associated research will be incorporated into UTSA undergraduate and graduate courses on atmospheric science, climate change, urban planning, and remote sensing.
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