Projects

As CIESS is relatively new (formed in summer 2011), there are few grant-funded research projects awarded specifically to the center. Here is a sampling of current research projects awarded either to CIESS or to core researchers that fit the center’s research objectives:

Refinement of Dust Entrainment and Transport Dynamics for Input into the Next Generation Coupled Land–Atmosphere Models
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
$900,000 (UT portion $540,000)
09/01/2011-08/31/2014
PI: Zong-Liang Yang, Co-PI: Gary Kocurek; KAUST PI: Georgiy L. Stenchikov. KAUST Co-PI: Victor Calo

Developing and Applying an Integrated Multi-scale Earth System Modeling Framework to Study the Impacts of Changing Climate, Local Weather, and Land Use on Watersheds and Downstream Coastal Ecosystems
NASA Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science (IDS) Program
$1,565,304 (Additional $90,220 goes directly to Wei Min Hao of US Forest Service, our federal collaborator
06/1/2011-05/31/2014
PI: Zong-Liang Yang, Co-I: David Maidment, Paul Montagna, James McClelland, Hongjie Xie, plus 6 collaborators
Awarded prior to formation of CIESS

Dust Storms and Climate Change
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
$432,298 (UT portion $292,298)
07/01/2010-06/30/2013
PI: Zong-Liang Yang, KAUST PI: Georgiy L. Stenchikov
Awarded prior to formation of CIESS