Chakrabarty awarded NSF grant to study wildfire smoke up close
Chakrabarty and his research group will participate in Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, a large-scale investigation into the properties and consequences of emissions from large fires
Chakrabarty and his research group are participating in Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ), a large-scale investigation into the properties and consequences of emissions from large fires. NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and various research groups, including more than 40 universities from the U.S. and abroad, are involved.
Chakrabarty's research group has built specialty equipment from scratch. The equipment is traveling by van this month to Idaho, where researchers will use it to study in real time the smoke characteristics from ongoing wildfires. The data will help Chakrabarty's lab understand the differences and similarities between experiments in the lab and conditions in the real world.
