Baylor Researchers Earn Department of Energy Grant to Study Impact of Urban Pollution on Thunderstorm Activity
WACO, Texas (Jan. 7, 2021) – Baylor University researchers Sascha Usenko, Ph.D., associate professors of environmental science, have been awarded an $890,000 grant by the Department of Energy Atmospheric System Research (ASR) to examine the impact of urban pollution on thunderstorm activity. The grant, TRACER-MAP: Mapping Aerosol Processes across Houston during convective cell events, enables researchers to conduct measurements in Houston in the summer of 2021 to tie into an overarching, multi-institution, multi-agency research project called Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Expe...