Active Grants & Funding

Total external funding at IU: ~$2.5M from Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and Heising-Simons Foundation

Coastal Fog: Basic Science, Water Resources, and Future Change

Agency: Heising-Simons Foundation
Role: PI
Award: $725,810
Period: 2025-2030

Multi-institutional coastal fog research initiative - Leading interdisciplinary collaboration investigating coastal fog science, water resources, and climate change impacts. Coordinating research across 5 institutions using advanced observational networks, high-resolution modeling, and machine learning approaches to understand fog predictability, water availability, and future changes. Learn more

CASCADE4 Scientific Focus Area

Agency: Department of Energy
Role: Co-PI (PI: William Collins, LBNL)
Total Award: $9M total, $206K to IU
Period: 2023-2026

Calibrated and Systematic Characterization, Attribution and Detection of Extremes - Leading research on low-likelihood, high-impact extreme weather events. Serves as Technical Co-Manager of this $3M/year multi-institutional project involving ~20 scientists across 5 institutions. Learn more

Co-Occurring Weather Phenomena

Agency: Department of Energy
Role: PI
Award: $632K total, $450K to IU
Period: 2022-2025

Investigating the Effects of Co-Occurring Weather Phenomena on Extreme Precipitation - Multi-institutional collaboration studying how atmospheric rivers, fronts, mesoscale convective systems, and tropical cyclones interact to produce extreme precipitation in reanalysis, E3SM, and CMIP6 models.

CASCADE3 Scientific Focus Area

Agency: Department of Energy
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: William Collins, LBNL)
Award: $11M total, $415K to IU
Period: 2019-2023 (Completed)

Previous phase of the CASCADE Scientific Focus Area focusing on systematic investigation of climate extremes through integrated observations, Earth system modeling, and advanced statistical methods.

Process-based Climate Downscaling

Agency: Department of Defense
Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Dan Feldman, LBNL)
Award: $250K to IU
Period: 2019-2023 (Completed)

Process-based Evaluation of Temperature and Precipitation Projections and Downscaling Methods - Research on climate model projections and downscaling approaches for DOD facility-level risk assessment across CONUS.

Pending Proposals

NSF CAIG: AI Framework for Geoscience

Co-I role on collaborative research developing AI modeling and data curation framework for geoscience challenges. $375K to IU.

DOE E3SM: Deep Learning Framework

Co-I on project developing deep learning framework for diagnosing bias and error propagation in E3SM. $899K to IU.

Research Leadership

CASCADE Technical Co-Manager

Leading technical direction of $3M/year DOE project

Multi-institutional Leadership

Coordinating research across national labs and universities

International Collaboration

Leading ARTMIP and other global research initiatives