Innovative Research Program Projects, 2009

Go, Go, Mini-Glider: Atmospheric Sampling
Development of the First Autonomous Mini-Glider for Sampling Small-Scale Atmospheric Structure from the Surface to 10 km (Ben Balsley, Don David, and Ken Smith)

Glacier Loss, Through A Photographic Lens
Quantification of 19th/21st Century Ice-Volume Loss in the Karakoram and Himalaya (Roger Bilham)

Modeling Glyoxal In Haze, Cloud
Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Glyoxal: Linking laboratory, field and model studies (Barbara Ervens and Rainer Volkamer)

Climate Change And Ocean Productivity
How will Global Climate Changes Affect Ocean Productivity in the Tropics? (Brandi McCarty)

Extending The Arctic Sea Ice Record
Can Sea-ice Extent from the 1960s be Determined from Reprocessed Nimbus Data? (Walt Meier, Mary Jo Brodzik and Dennis Wingo [NASA Ames Research Center])

Pine Beetles And Forest Soil Emissions
Soil Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds in Response to Pine Beetle Attacks (Russ Monson, Joost de Gouw, and Noah Fierer)

Predicting Short-Term Climate Change?
How Much Should We Trust Decadal Climate Projections at Regional Scales? (David Noone, Gil Compo, and Matt Newman)

Scanning Heat Flux With Sound Waves
Measurements of the Area Averaged Vertical Heat Flux with Acoustic Tomography (Vladimir Ostashev, Jesse Leach, and Sergey Vecherin [NMSU])

Passive Imaging Of The Environment
Passive Radio Imaging for Applications in Water Resource Management, Glaciology, and Space Weather Monitoring (Nick Zabotin and Oleg Godin)