WyomingLandedWyoming’s Ozone Flights Mark the First Mission for a Newly Funded National Research Aircraft
The university’s King Air sampled the Salt Lake Valley as Wyoming detailed a five-year, $14.8 million NSF award to operate the airborne-science facility.
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The University of Wyoming announced a $14.8 million National Science Foundation award to operate its newly registered N2UW as a national research facility. Six tracked sorties in the Salt Lake operating area from Aug. 21 through Aug. 28 fit the SLC-SOS campaign, which studies how heat, lake breezes, smoke and local emissions produce harmful summer ozone.
The grant begins Sept. 1 and supports the pilots, mechanics, engineers, technicians and scientists who keep the aircraft available. Wyoming’s research-aircraft project archive identifies the deployment, establishing the mission and timing without identifying the crew or researchers aboard an individual sortie.