← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Nevada System Of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute
Reno, NV
$64,932,407
Total funding
188
Grants
Funding over time
peak $7.5M · FY2005–25$10M$7.5M$5M$2.5M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NSF$64,932,407 · 188
By mechanism
—$64,932,407 · 188
Investigators at Nevada System Of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
Rising Stars
First grant in the last 5 yrs
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Emerging Leaders
6–10 yrs in
Not enough data
All-Time
Most funded here, all years
Not enough data
Largest grants
Collaborative Research: FEC: Optical Properties of Mineral Dust Aerosols: Building Capacity for Use-Inspired Applications Through Experimental and Theoretical Investigations$3,260,118
· FY2025 · O/D
IRCEB: Interannual Climate Variability and Ecosystem Processes: A Quantitative Assessment Combining Modeling with Field and Mesocosm Experiments$3,000,000
· FY2000 · BIO
FIRE: FireScape Nevada: Multiscale Wildfire Risk Modeling and Community-Led Planning in Nevada's Wildland-Urban Interface$2,314,992
· FY2025 · GEO
Investigation of Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide$1,934,475
· FY2005 · GEO
INFEWS/T2: Organic Waste Lifecycles at the interface of Food, Energy, Water Systems (OWL-FEWs)$1,745,419
· FY2021 · ENG
Continued Core Atmospheric and Snow Measurements at the Summit, Greenland Environmental Observatory$1,254,266
· FY2009 · GEO
Climate Drivers and Ancient History in Greenland Ice$1,158,569
· FY2019 · GEO
Investigation of the Stratigraphy and Time Scale of the WAIS Divide Ice Core Using Electrical Methods$987,186
· FY2005 · GEO
Development of an Instrument for Multispectral Measurement of Aerosol Light Absorption$835,490
· FY2002 · GEO
Collaborative Research: Integrated High Resolution Chemical and Biological Measurements on the Deep WAIS Divide Core$809,174
· FY2010 · GEO
Biotic and Abiotic Controls on Soil Inorganic Carbon Dynamics in Arid Ecosystems: A Three-component Study to Evaluate the Effects of Global Change in the Mojave Desert$800,000
· FY2003 · BIO
MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Photoionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer (PI-TOFMS) to Advance Environmental Research in Water, Soil, and Air$780,823
· FY2023 · GEO
Aircraft Study of the Structure and Evolution of Supercooled and Mixed- Phase Clouds$758,328
· FY2003 · GEO
Collaborative Research: ANT LIA: Diving into the Ecology of an Antarctic Ascidian-Microbiome-Palmerolide Association using a Multi-omic and Functional Approach$734,554
· FY2024 · GEO
T-Rex Observational and Numerical Study of Sierra Nevada Mountain Waves and Rotors$710,430
· FY2005 · GEO
Collaborative Research: P2C2--ICECAP (ICE age Chemistry And Proxies) Phase-4: Studying Aerosol Transport, Forcing, and Climate Feedbacks during the Common and Last Glacial Eras$695,256
· FY2021 · GEO
Laboratory Technician Support: Luminescence Geochronology$680,536
· FY2017 · GEO
Collaborative Research: Geochemistry and Microbiology of the Extreme Aquatic Environment in Lake Vida, East Antarctica$664,507
· FY2009 · GEO
MRI: Development of a Cavity Ring-Down Sensor for Real-Time Measurement of Atmospheric Mercury Concentrations and Fluxes$653,473
· FY2009 · GEO
MRI: Development of a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer for the Characterization of Aerosol Radiative Transfer in the Solar Spectrum$649,801
· FY2010 · GEO