Dr. Gary A. Morris


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Active Grants

“Development of a Tropospheric Ozone Lidar System to Measure Urban Ozone Pollution in Houston, Texas” – Principal Investigator – NSF Atmopsheric Chemistry Program. Will resubmit to NSF in 2004.
“Collaborative Proposal: Enhanced Analysis of a Standard Physics Education Tool—The Force Concept Inventory” – Principle Investigator – NSF Assessment of Student Achievement in Undergraduate Education (ASA). Will resubmit to NSF in 2004.
"North American - North Atlantic Ozone Soundings During INTEX-A (2004)" - Co-Investigator - NASA Tropospheric Chemistry Program.
"Rice University Tropospheric Ozone Pollution Project" - Principal Investigator - Shell Center for Sustainability (2003 - present).
“Measuring Urban Ozone Pollution in Houston, Texas with MICROTOPS” – Principal Investigator – Rice Space Institute Seed Money Program (2002).
“Ground-based UV Sensor” – Principle Investigator – equipment from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) installed at Rice (Summer 2002). Equipment loan only.
“Research in Physics Education (RIPE) Project – Principal Investigator – Brown Teaching Grant – (2001 – 2002 and 2002 – 2003).
“MATCH Ozone Loss Analysis Technique” – Principal Investigator – NASA GSFC Purchase Order (2002 - 2003).
“The Interaction Between the Troposphere and the Stratosphere: The Impact of Climate Change” – Co-Investigator – NASA Interdisciplinary Science Program (2000 – 2006).

Past Grants

“Simulation of Aircraft Exhaust Emissions Using the GSFC Trajectory Model” – Principle Investigator – NASA GSFC Purchase Order (2000).
“Research in Physics Education (RIPE) Project” – Principal Investigator – Valparaiso University CELT Expense Grant (1999 – 2000).
“Validation of H2O and O3 Measurements from SAGE III Using Trajectory Mapping and Constituent Reconstruction” – Principal Investigator – NASA Earth Observing System program (1997 – 2000, Uncosted carry-over continued through 2003).
“Simulation of Aircraft Exhaust Emissions Using the GSFC Trajectory Model” – Principle Investigator – NASA GSFC Purchase Order (1999).
“A Climatology of Tropospheric CO over the Central and Southeastern United States and the Southwestern Pacific Ocean Derived from Space, Air, and Ground-based Infrared Interferometer Spectra” – Co-Investigator – NASA GSFC (1998 – 2001).
“Validation of MOPITT Column and Profile CO from Spaceborne, Airborne, and Ground-based Interferometers”– Co-Investigator – NASA GSFC (1997 – 2000).