← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Stratton Park Engineering Co., Inc.
Boulder, CO
$17,448,192
Total funding
25
Grants
Funding over time
peak $1.8M · FY2005–22$2M$1.5M$1M$500K$0
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Funding mix
By agency
DOE$8,499,679 · 8
NASA$4,915,243 · 6
NSF$4,033,270 · 11
By mechanism
—$17,448,192 · 25
Investigators at Stratton Park Engineering Co., Inc.
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
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Largest grants
A NOVEL INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING DROP SIZE AND LIQUID WATER CONTENT$1,765,206
· FY2021 · Department of Energy
A HIGHLY MINIATURIZED CLOUD AND AEROSOL INSTRUMENT PACKAGE FOR SMALL UAVS$1,699,336
· FY2015 · Department of Energy
HIGH-RESOLUTION CLOUD PROBE FOR THE TIGERSHARK UAV AND TETHERED BALLOON SYSTEMS$1,645,736
· FY2017 · Department of Energy
SBIR-PHASE I NEW; TETHERED BALLOON SYSTEMS FOR ARCTIC MEASUREMENTS IN THE NEAR-SURFACE ATMOSPHERE; R. PAUL LAWSON$1,298,909
· FY2012 · Department of Energy
THE IMPACT OF HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS (E.G. POLLUTION FROM BURNING OF BIOMASS AND/OR FOSSIL FUELS) ON CUMULUS CLOUDS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA MAY HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE MAGNITUDE OF PRECIPITATION AND TRANSPORT OF ICE PARTICLES INTO THE UPPER TROPOSPHERE/LOWER STRATOSPHERE (UTLS). PRECIPITATION IS CRITICAL TO AGRICULTURE AND OTHER SOCIAL ECONOMIC DISCIPLINES; THE TRANSPORT OF WATER VAPOR (EVAPORATED ICE) INTO THE UTLS HAS A SERIOUS IMPACT ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE. WE WILL CONDUCT INTENSIVE IN SITU OBSERVATIONS OF AEROSOLS CLOUD MICROPHYSICS AND UPDRAFT DYNAMICS USING THE NASA P-3B AND SPEC LEARJET RESEARCH AIRCRAFT. SPEC WILL BRING A LEARJET MODEL 35 TO THE FIELD OPERATE IT AND MAINTAIN AND PROCESS DATA FROM ADVANCED CLOUD MICROPHYSICS SENSORS INSTALLED ON BOTH THE P-3B AND LEARJET. THE OBSERVATIONS WILL BE INTEGRATED INTO THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) CLOUD SIMULATIONS USING A BIN MICROPHYSICS SCHEME IN CONJUNCTION WITH A NOVEL MICROPHYSICAL PIGGYBACKING APPROACH TO SHED LIGHT ON THE MECHANISM(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR CLOUD MODIFICATION DUE TO ENHANCED AEROSOL LOADING. THE MAIN IDEA OF MICROPHYSICAL PIGGYBACKING IS TO APPLY TWO SETS OF THERMODYNAMIC VARIABLES (THE POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO AND ALL VARIABLES DESCRIBING AEROSOL CLOUD AND PRECIPITATION PARTICLES) IN A SINGLE CLOUD FIELD SIMULATION. THE FIRST SET IS COUPLED TO THE DYNAMICS AND DRIVES THE SIMULATION AND THE SECOND SET PIGGYBACKS THE SIMULATED FLOW AND DOES NOT AFFECT IT. THE METHODOLOGY ALLOWS FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACTS WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED ACCURACY AND IT IS CAPABLE OF DETECTING EVEN MINUSCULE IMPACTS ON BULK CLOUD PROPERTIES SUCH AS THE CLOUD COVER LIQUID AND ICE WATER PATH AND SURFACE PRECIPITATION. THE IMPACT ON THE DYNAMICS IS ASSESSED BY PERFORMING A SECOND SIMULATION WITH MICROPHYSICAL SETS SWAPPED SO THE DRIVER SET BECOMES THE PIGGYBACKING SET AND VICE VERSA. IF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RESULTS FROM DRIVER AND PIGGYBACKING SETS IN THE TWO SIMULATIONS (I.E. IN THE ORIGINAL SIMULATION AND IN THE ONE WITH SETS SWAPPED) ARE THE SAME EXCEPT FOR THE SIGN THEN THE CLOUD DYNAMICS IS ARGUABLY INSIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTED BY THE CLOUD MICROPHYSICS. WE EMPHASIZE THAT THIS IS AN INTERPRETIVE MODELING COMPONENT AND NOT STAND-ALONE; THE MODEL WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH THE OBSERVATIONS TO QUANTIFY MICROPHYSICAL AND DYNAMICAL IMPACTS OF AEROSOLS AS A PART OF OUR DATA ANALYSIS APPROACH AND TO ASSESS RADIATIVE IMPACTS. THE LEAR 35 PROPOSED FOR CAMP2EX HAS TURBOFAN ENGINES AND IS AN UPGRADE FROM SPEC S LEAR 25 THAT HAS TURBOJET ENGINES. THE LEAR 35 HAS A 2 000 NMI RANGE AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF WORKING WITH THE P-3B UP TO ABOUT 400 NMI OFFSHORE. THE BASIC MEASUREMENT APPROACH IS FOR THE P-3B TO MAKE SUBCLOUD MEASUREMENTS OF AEROSOLS AND AIR MOTIONS BEFORE CLIMBING INTO WARM CLOUD TO MAKE MICROPHYSICS MEASUREMENTS. THE LEARJET WILL FIRST PENETRATE CLOUD NEAR THE FREEZING LEVEL AND THEN CONTINUE TO CLIMB AND PENETRATE THE UPDRAFT CORE UNTIL THE CLOUD IS GLACIATED. THE ABILITY OF THE LEARJET TO CLIMB AT RATES UP TO 5 000 FPM (21 M S-1) ALLOWS IT TO CLIMB AND PENETRATE THE SAME REGION OF THE UPDRAFT CORE PRODUCING A QUASI-LANGRANGIAN DOCUMENTATION OF THE UPDRAFT. ANALYSIS OF P3-B AND LEARJET MICROPHYSICAL DATA WILL BE CONDUCTED BY AN EXPERIENCED COMPLEMENT OF SPEC SCIENTISTS (DRS. LAWSON WOODS GURGANUS MO AND RODEN). DRS. MORRISON AND GRABOWSKI FROM NCAR PLAY A MAJOR (FUNDED) ROLE IN DATA ANALYSIS AND INTEGRATION OF THE NOVEL PIGGYBACKING MODEL METHODOLOGY. DR. ROELOF BRUINTJES FROM NCAR AND PRECIPITATION PHYSICS CONSULTANTS WILL PARTICIPATE AS FLIGHT SCIENTIST AND DATA ANALYSIS. DR. SEBASTIAN SCHMIDT FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO (CU) AND DR. MELODY AVERY FROM NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER ARE COLLABORATORS ON THIS PROPOSAL.$1,246,864
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
EO14042 IN SITU MICROPHYSICS MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSIS IN SUPPORT OF ARCSIX$1,159,588
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE SOUTHEAST ASIA COMPOSITION, CLOUD, CLIMATE COUPLING REGIONAL STUDY (SEAC4RS) WILL FOCUS ON THE ROLE OF THE ASIAN MONSOON CIRCULATION AND CONVECTI$1,124,215
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEW: TITLE: USING STATISTICAL COMPARISONS BETWEEN SPARTICUS CIRRUS MICROPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS, DETAILED CLOUD MODELS, AND GCM CLOUD PARAMETERIZATIONS$719,358
· FY2011 · Department of Energy
Collaborative Research: Secondary Production of Ice in CUmuLus Experiment (SPICULE)$699,721
· FY2019 · GEO
A DUAL-WAVELENGTH IN SITU CLOUD LIDAR WITH VERY LARGE SAMPLE VOLUM$699,706
· FY2008 · Department of Energy
IT IS NOW UNDERSTOOD THAT RELATIVELY SMALL CHANGES IN THE CONCENTRATION OF WATER VAPOR IN THE LOWER STRATOSPHERE (LS) HAS A DRAMATIC EFFECT ON CLIMAT$612,607
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THIS PROPOSAL REQUESTS FUNDING TO INSTALL A SUITE OF STATE-OF-THE-ART AND NEW MICROPHYSICAL INSTRUME$563,540
· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SBIR Phase II: A Device for Measuring Electric Field Strength from Dropsondes and Radiosondes$499,970
· FY2005 · TIP
Learjet Investigations of the Microphysics of Maritime Tropical Cumulus Clouds in the Ice Crystal Experiment - Tropical (ICE-T)$450,738
· FY2011 · GEO
Participation in the Ice in Clouds Experiment - Layered Clouds (ICE-L) Field Experiment with the Stratton Park Engineering Company (SPEC) Learjet and Analysis of Data$440,931
· FY2006 · GEO
Evaluation of the Cloud Particle Imager (CPI) and Microphysical Investigations of Wave, Cirrus and Anvil Clouds$378,632
· FY2003 · GEO
Quantification of Clustering in Warm (RICO) Cumuli$374,911
· FY2008 · GEO
A DUAL-WAVELENGTH IN SITU CLOUD LIDAR WITH VERY LARGE SAMPLE VOLUME$342,522
· FY2009 · Department of Energy
TAS::89 0222::TAS - TITLE: SYNTHESIS OF IN SITU MICROPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS WITH REMOTE RETRIEVALS AND MODELS; PI: PAUL R. LAWSON$328,906
· FY2010 · Department of Energy
Experimental and Numerical Investigations of Spectral Broadening and the Onset of Precipitation in Warm Rain In Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) Cumuli$311,279
· FY2004 · GEO