The Niyogi Lab at Purdue

Currently members of the Niyogi Lab are working on the following funded research projects

GAP1. Estimation of Evapotranspiration and Crop Water Stress Over Large Areas Using Remote Sensing Observations, USDA NRI CGP, coPI, PI; S. Islam (U of Cincinnati); T. Carlson (coPI, Penn State ).
GAP2. National Workshop on Agricultural Air Quality – USDA NRI CGP – Approved. Lead institution NCSU (collaborating: Duke University W. Schlesinger, Ecological Society of America: Cliff Duke).
GAP3. Multisensor/multiscale Analysis of Urban impacts in the Upper Great Lakes Region, NASA LCLUC, (coPI with L. Bowling, K. Cherkauer, B. Pijanowski), 2006 - 2009.
GAP4. From Sources to Sinks - A Novel Isotopic Analysis of Nitrate Loading in Groundwater and Surface Runoff in Indiana Watersheds, Showalter Grant, Purdue University (coPI with G. Michalski, PI, and B. Joern), 2006 - 2007.
GMP1. Impact of Transpiration Feedback on Land Atmosphere Water Vapor Exchange and Land Surface Memory, NOAA, PI (coPI Fei Chen, NCAR), THROUGH NASA/GWEC- Terrestrial Hydrology Program. (details)
GMP2. Integrated Climate Change Assessment using Landuse Landcover change, Radiation, and Carbon-Water Cycle, NASA Interdisciplinary Science, (coPI, with R. Pielke CSU as PI).
GMP3. Modeling aerosol effects in Numerical Models for Regional Climate Studies, NASA-Radiation Program (2003 – 2006), co-PI; PI- R. Pielke, M. Coughener, S. Kodrenawlis, all CSU; and W. Tao, NASA/GSFC).
GMP4. Investigation of effect of land surface processes on QPF and convection initiation, NSF – ATM Mesoscale, (2003- 2006, PI).

Active at NCSU

GAN1. Characterization and Fate of Ammonia and Hydrogen Sulfide from Animal Feeding Operations: Their Emissions, Transport, Transformations, Deposition, and Impact on Fine Particulate Matter, USDA- Air Quality Initiative, V. Aneja (PI), co-PI, along with S.P. Arya, G. Jennings, J. Fountain, W. Gilliam, R. Mathur, W. Showers, P. Westerman, ACTIVE.
GAN2. Investigation of effect of land surface processes on QPF and convection initiation, NSF – ATM Mesoscale, (2003- 2006, PI).

Past Funded Research Project (completed)

Development of an internet based turf disease warning system, New Grant, Center for Turf Education and Research, 5/03 – 6/05.
Coupling and Validating Noah Land Surface Model in Navy's COAMPS, NRL – Monterey , (2002 – 2005, PI), ACTIVE.
Agricultural Weather and Climate Atlas, PI (co-Is: K. Scheeringa, R. Grant, S.Fall), Rice Grant from Purdue Agricultural Research Center, 05/05 – 05/06.
Development and Operation of NC Agricultural Weather and Climate Observational Network (AgNet), NC Agricultural Research Services, 1999 – 2002 (Project Manage and co-Principal Investigator), 1998 – 2003.
Surface – Atmosphere Exchanges for Hydrometeorological Models, NOAA / EPA, 1999 2002
Emergency Management Assistance in North Carolina (co- nvestigator and Project Manager), NC Dept. Emergency Management, 2000-2001.
Analysis of Land Plume over Indian Ocean during INDOEX, (Collaborator), NSF Div. Atmos. Sci., 2000 – 2003.
NCAR- Travel Support for Participation in International H2O Project (IHOP) Field Program and Land Surface Workshop, (through RAP and MMM NCAR; M. LeMone)
Field Component of the Instrumentation Meteorology Course, NCSU- ETF, 2001-2002.
Participation in the Environmental Monitoring at the World Trade Center Site (Project Manager) EPA contract to State Climate Office, 2002
Biophysical Measurements and Data Analysis using Porometery and Canopy scaling, 2003, NCSU-ETF

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