Who funds atmospheric aerosol research?

We count 78 funded atmospheric aerosol projects, active between 2021 and 2032, from 5 funders. The most came from EU · ERC (16 projects), NSF · GEO (15 projects) and EU · Climate, Energy and Mobility (8 projects). The median award is $1M, across the 77 of 78 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

78

Funders

5

Median award

$1M

Open calls now

0

Top funders of atmospheric aerosol research

Projects whose title or summary mentions atmospheric aerosol. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open atmospheric aerosol funding calls

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Funded atmospheric aerosol projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• CAREER: Role of New Particle Formation in Pre-industrial Climate
  NSF · GEO · $1,107,797 · ends 2030
• CAREER: Assessing Responses of Precipitation Extremes to Anthropogenic Emission Changes
  NSF · GEO · $871,505 · ends 2030
• CAREER: Aerosols as Drivers of Multivariate Climate Hazard
  NSF · GEO · $945,558 · ends 2030
• The Bipolar Ice Core Chronology: Enabling discovery through synchronized ice core timescales
  NSF · Office of the Director · $446,705 · ends 2029
• Assessing the role of absorbed solar radiation, clouds, and boreal fire aerosols in the slowdown of Arctic warming and sea ice loss.
  NSF · Office of the Director · $480,261 · ends 2029
• Impact of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions on Greenland’s Ice Melting Rates
  UKRI · NERC · £794,219 · ends 2029
• This proposal investigates the physical mechanisms that generate three-dimensional structure in exoplanet atmospheres and determines how…
  NASA · $169,588 · ends 2029
• Collaborative Research: FEC: Optical Properties of Mineral Dust Aerosols: Building Capacity for Use-Inspired Applications Through Experimental and Theoretical Investigations
  NSF · Office of the Director · $3,260,118 · ends 2029
• Collaborative Research: Photochemistry at the Air-Aerosol Interface
  NSF · MPS · $350,000 · ends 2029
• Surface Partitioning, Structure, Properties and Reactivity of Biological Macromolecules in Aqueous Aerosols and at the Air/Water Interface: Theory and Experiment
  NSF · MPS · $750,000 · ends 2029

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “aerosol or aerosols”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.