Research in the Pratt Lab has been supported primarily through grants from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Energy (DOE), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). These highly selective grants include both single-principal investigator (PI) grants awarded to Prof. Pratt, as well as multi-PI grants awarded to groups of researchers, often at multiple institutions.

These grants primarily fund the stipends/salaries, tuition, and health insurance for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers conducting the research, while simultaneously gaining training for their future careers. Additional grant funds support research supplies, research equipment, fieldwork and conference travel, research scientist salary and health insurance, and summer salary and health insurance for Prof. Pratt.

Prof. Pratt has also received major research funding through national awards, including from the Brown Institute for Basic Sciences, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, and Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh. In addition, Pratt Lab students have been supported by fellowships from NASA, Michigan Space Grant Consortium, U-M Rackham Graduate School, U-M Department of Chemistry, U-M Institute for Global Change Biology, and U-M Program in International & Comparative Studies, including through gift funds donated to U-M.

Federal Funding:

  • DOE DE-SC0025196, Pristine Southern Ocean Aerosol and Cloud Processes: Coupling Single-Particle Measurements and Modeling during CAPE-K, 09/01/2024 – 08/31/2027, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Prof. Andrew Ault (co-I), Dr. Christina McCluskey (co-I at NCAR).
  • NASA 80NSSC22K1773, Online Single-Particle Measurements during ARCSIX for Improved Understanding of Arctic Aerosol Radiation and Cloud Impacts, 11/01/2022-10/31/2028, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • NSF AGS-2147893, Collaborative Research: Atmospheric Chlorine Oxidation of Hydrocarbons Emitted from the North Slope of Alaska Oil Fields, 06/01/2022-5/31/2026, Prof. Kerri Pratt (Lead PI), Prof. Paul Zimmerman (co-PI), Dr. Andrew Lambe (PI at Aerodyne Research).
  • DOE DE-SC0022046, Closing the Gap on Understudied Aerosol-Climate Processes in the Rapidly Changing Central Arctic, 08/15/2021 – 08/14/2026, Dr. Jessie Creamean (PI at Colorado State Univ., CSU), Prof. Kerri Pratt (co-I), Prof. Julia Schmale (co-I at EPFL, Switzerland).
  • NASA 20-CRYO2020-0007, Observations of Arctic Sea Ice Leads and Polynyas for Sea Spray Aerosol Production Assessment, 04/01/2021 – 9/31/2025, Dr. Son Nghiem (PI at Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Prof. Kerri Pratt (co-I).
  • NSF AGS-2037091, Collaborative Research: A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Interactions between Pollution and Hazardous Ice Fog in Interior Alaska, 12/01/2020 – 11/30/2025, Dr. Jessie Creamean (Lead PI at CSU), Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Additional co-PIs at CSU: Dr. Paul DeMott, Dr. Thomas Hill, Dr. Russell Perkins.
  • NSF OPP-2000493, Collaborative Research: Chemistry in the Arctic – Clouds, Halogens, and Aerosols (CHACHA), 09/15/2020 – 09/14/2025, Prof. Paul Shepson (Lead PI at Stony Brook Univ.), Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Prof. Sara Lance (PI at SUNY-Albany), Prof. Jose Fuentes (PI at Penn State Univ.), Prof. William Simpson (PI at Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, UAF).
  • NSF AGS-2023761, Collaborative Research: Greater NY Oxidant, Trace gas, Halogen, and Aerosol Airborne Mission (GOTHAAM), 08/15/2020 – 08/14/2026, Prof. John Mak (Lead PI at Stony Brook Univ.), Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Additional 12 co-PIs at 7 institutions.
  • NOAA NA20OAR4310299, Wintertime Halogen Chemistry in Polluted, Inland, Urban Environments, 09/01/2020 – 08/31/2025, Prof. Cassandra Gaston (PI at Univ. of Miami), Prof. Kerri Pratt (co-I).
  • NSF RISE-1927831, Collaborative Research: NNA Track 1: Sustainably Navigating Arctic Pollution Through Engaging Communities (SNAP-TEC), 10/01/2019-09/30/2025, Prof. William Simpson (Lead PI at UAF), Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Prof. Peter DeCarlo (PI at Johns Hopkins Univ.), Prof. Jochen Stutz (PI at UC-Los Angeles), Prof. Rodney Weber (PI at Georgia Tech), Prof. Brent Williams (PI at Univ. of Minnesota), co-PIs at UAF: Prof. Jingqiu Mao, Prof. Laura Conner, Prof. Nathan Kettle.
  • DOE DE-SC0019172, Early Career Award – Elucidating Processes Controlling Arctic Atmospheric Aerosol Sources, Aging, and Mixing States, 09/01/2018-08/31/2025, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • NSF OPP-1724585, Collaborative Research: Marine Aerosols in the Arctic: Linking surface water chemistry and biology with primary particle production, 09/01/2017-08/31/2023, Prof. Kerri Pratt (Lead PI), Dr. Patricia Matrai (PI at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences), Prof. Amanda Grannas (PI at Villanova Univ.), Prof. Andrew Ault (co-PI).
  • NSF DUE-1821884, NNA-EHR-Polar DCL 2017: Collaborative Research: Researching apun: Students using local, traditional, and science knowledge bases to investigate Arctic snow processes, 09/01/2018-8/31/2023, Prof. Ginger Shultz (Lead PI), Prof. Kerri Pratt (co-PI), Prof. Linda Nicholas-Figueroa (PI at Iḷisaġvik College).
  • NSF AGS-2002695, Collaborative Research: RAPID – Atmospheric Chlorine Oxidation of Hydrocarbons Emitted from the North Slope of Alaska Oil Fields, 01/01/2020 – 12/31/2021, Prof. Kerri Pratt (Lead PI), Dr. Andrew Lambe (PI at Aerodyne Research).
  • NSF AGS-1738588, Investigating Snowpack Chlorine Chemistry in the Wintertime Urban Boundary Layer, 09/01/2017-08/31/2021, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • NSF OPP-1417668, Collaborative Research: Studies of Chlorine, Bromine and Iodine Chemistry in the Arctic, and its Impacts, 09/01/2014-08/31/2019, Prof. Paul Shepson (Lead PI at Purdue Univ.), Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Prof. Jose Fuentes (PI at Penn State Univ.), Prof. Roland von Glasow (co-I at Univ. of East Anglia, UK).
  • NASA NNX14AP44G, Integration of Aircraft and Satellite Observations with Modeling to Study Arctic Bromine and Ozone Chemistry, 8/14/2014-08/13/2018, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Dr. Son Nghiem (co-I at Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
  • NOAA NA14OAR0110149, Assessment of Atmospheric Aerosols Resulting from Oil and Gas Extraction Activities near the North Slope of Alaska, 08/01/2014-07/31/2017, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Prof. Rebecca Sheesley (co-I at Baylor Univ.).
  • EPA R835409, Role of Oxidation of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds in Secondary Organic Aerosol Production in the Southeastern U.S., 04/01/2013-10/31/2015, Prof. Steve Bertman (PI at Western Michigan Univ.), Prof. Kerri Pratt (co-I), Prof. Paul Shepson (co-I at Purdue Univ.), Prof. John Seeley (co-I at Oakland Univ.), Prof. Tim Starn (co-I at West Chester Univ. of PA).

Foundation Funding:

Additional External Funding Sources:

  • 2016 Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellowship, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Gulf Research Program, Air Quality Impacts of Oil Extraction Activities on the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf, 09/01/2016-12/31/2018, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • NYSERDA 53968, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Connecting Cloud Water Inorganic and Organic Chemical Composition at Whiteface Mountain, 04/01/2015-05/31/2018, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • 2014 ASMS Research Award, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 07/01/2014-08/31/2018, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • 2014 SACP Starter Grant Award, Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh, Chemical Characterization of Arctic Atmospheric Particles, 05/15/2014-05/14/2016, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • 2014 MSGC Award, Michigan Space Grant Consortium, Linking Arctic Snow Chemistry to Sea Ice Conditions and Tropospheric BrO, 05/01/2014-04/31/2015, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).

Federal User Facility Grants:

  • DOE EMSL 61180, Pacific Northwest National Lab Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (PNNL EMSL), Characterization of Individual Atmospheric Particle Chemical Composition, Morphology, and Cloud Nucleation Properties in the Remote High Latitudes, 10/01/2024-09/30/2026, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Prof. Andrew Ault (co-I).
  • DOE AFC10215, DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM), CAPE-k Summertime Single-Particle and INP Campaign, 02/01/2025-04/30/2025, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • DOE EMSL 60327, PNNL EMSL, Identification of Individual Particle Chemical Composition, Morphology, and Ice Nucleation Properties in the Arctic, 10/01/2022-09/30/2024, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • DOE EMSL 51363, PNNL EMSL, Chemical Imaging and Ice Nucleation Properties of Individual Arctic Atmospheric Particles, 10/01/2020 – 09/30/2022, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • DOE AFC07005, DOE ARM, Secondary Aerosol Formation in an Arctic Oil Field, 02/01/2020-04/30/2020, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Dr. Andrew Lambe (co-I at Aerodyne Research).
  • DOE ARM 2018-6948, DOE ARM, Arctic Aerosol Sources & Mixing States, 10/28/2018-10/31/2020, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • DOE EMSL 51054, PNNL EMSL, Single-Particle Microscopy of Arctic Atmospheric Particles, 11/26/2019-03/31/2021, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • DOE EMSL 49331, PNNL EMSL, Chemical Characterization of Arctic Atmospheric Aerosols on the North Slope of Alaska using Single-Particle Microscopy and High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry, 10/1/2016-09/30/2019, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Prof. Andrew Ault (co-I).
  • DOE ARM 2016-6875, DOE ARM, Ice Nucleating Particle Sources at Oliktok Point, 02/26/2017-05/31/2017, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI).
  • DOE ARM 2013-6660, DOE ARM, Summertime Aerosol across the North Slope of Alaska, 08/12/2015-09/20/2016, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Prof. Rebecca Sheesley (co-I at Baylor Univ.).
  • DOE EMSL 47887, PNNL EMSL, Chemical Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosols and Cloud Water using High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Single-Particle Microscopy, 10/1/2013-09/30/2015, Prof. Kerri Pratt (PI), Prof. Andrew Ault (co-I), Prof. Steve Bertman (co-I at Western Michigan Univ.), Prof. Paul Shepson (co-I at Purdue Univ.).

Donations:

Monetary donations from private individuals and companies are invaluable to provide opportunities for Pratt Lab researchers (such as conference and research travel) and purchase items that cannot be acquired with federal grants (such as computers for graduate student offices). If you are interested in supporting our research, please visit the UM Department of Chemistry’s Make an Impact page for information about specific department funds and how to donate online or by mail.

The Pratt Lab is always looking for donations of used or new instruments (e.g., ion chromatographs) and instrument components (e.g., mass flow controllers, regulators, lasers) for research and educational purposes in the UM Department of Chemistry. If you have equipment in working condition that you no longer have use for, consider donating it to the Pratt Lab! We are especially interested in the following items:

  • Gas handling equipment and gases, including mass flow controllers, mass flow meters, pressure sensors, zero air generators, calibration gases or standard gases, etc.
  • Research-grade lasers and optics, ideally in the 200 nm to 600 nm wavelength range.
  • Aerosol particle instruments, such as particle counters, particle sizers, particle generators, and particle samplers (e.g. impactors)
  • Gas monitors for ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), reactive nitrogen (NOy), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and other atmospherically relevant gases (e.g. methane, CH4).
  • Portable fieldwork equipment, including portable generators
  • Gas chromatography and ion chromatography equipment and accessories (e.g. columns, tubing, fittings).
  • Laboratory instrumentation and tools, including vacuum pumps, compressors, balances, ovens, dewars, deep freezers, wrenches, flow meters, etc.
  • Electronics, including power supplies, amplifiers, cables, etc.
  • Any equipment related to mass spectrometry and chromatography measurements of air and fieldwork!

If you have equipment to donate or would like to make a monetary donation directly to our lab, please email Prof. Kerri A. Pratt at [email protected].

Funding Sources