Current Research Projects - Terry Deshler
Stratospheric

Quasi-Lagrangian measurements of polar stratospheric cloud particle development from long-duration balloon platforms
National Science Foundation
, $350,251, Nov 2007 - Nov 2010, PI: T. Deshler, CoI: J. Mercer,Location: McMurdo Station, Antarctica 

Measurements addressing the initial stages of ozone recovery, the nucleation of, index of refraction of, and existence of large PSC particles National Science Foundation, $760,3471, March 2006 - March 2009, PI: T. Deshler, CoI: J. Mercer, Location: McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

Balloon-borne in situ measurements of aerosol size and concentration in the mid latitudes and tropics 
National Science Foundation: $797,160, January 2005 - January 2010, PI: T. Deshler Location: Laramie, Wyoming, Darwin, Australia, Niamey, Niger, Brazil.

In situ aerosol profile measurements and comparisons with SAGE III aerosol extinction  and surface area profiles at 41°N  National Aeronautics and Space Administration: $39,000, June 2004 - November 2007, PI: T. Deshler,  Location: Laramie, Wyoming.

Development of a suite of balloonborne aerosol instruments to provide size resolved concentration measurements between 0.03 and 30 m m
  National Science Foundation: $497,759, October 2002 - March 2007, PI: T. Deshler, P. Wechsler, Location: Laramie, Wyoming.


Tropospheric
Comprehensive measurements of surface atmospheric aerosol to test predictions of radiative and hygroscopic properties of that aerosol  National Science Foundation, $279,378, January 2005 - January 2008, PI: T. Deshler, CoIs: D. Montague, P. Liu, Location: Laramie, Wyoming 


Proposals Pending

IPY: Ice Formation in Support of the Mass of the Polar Ice Caps Experiment (MSPICE)
National Science Foundation
, $378,084, January 2008 – January 2011, PI: T. Deshler,Location: South Pole, Antarctica

GLIMPSE-Airborne Studies of polar stratospheric cloud particle formation mechanisms near the Antarctic Peninsula.
National Science Foundation, $289,310, January 2008 – January 2011, PI: T. Deshler,Location: Punta Arenas, Chile