Private Foundations & organizations
City Tech Learning Recovery Program
$1,990,000
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Reginald Blake — Associate Provost and Dean of Curriculum and Research
Hamidreza Norouzi — Construction Management/Civil Engineering Technology Department
Diana Samaroo — Chemistry Department
The Robin Hood Foundation has awarded City Tech a year-long grant focusing on incoming first year students who are starting their college career in 2021-2022. This special initiative is to engender learning gains among pandemic-impacted, incoming first year students, as well as to increase persistence that leads to graduation. In partnership with extant programs throughout the college, the Robin Hood funding will be used to provide a comprehensive, coordinated, holistic, and integrated set of opportunities for first semester students — all of which we hope will lead to a successful first year of college for these students.
From sparse data to full spatio-temporal fields: surface ocean carbon and beyond
$1,780,097
June 1, 2025 — May 31, 2030
Viviana Acquaviva- Physics Department
Reconstructing full spatio-temporal fields from sparse and biased observations is a fundamental problem in climate science (e.g., Bracco et al 2024 for a recent overview). This proposal is centered on reconstructing the surface partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2) in the ocean. Through this work, we will assess and reduce uncertainties in the magnitude, seasonality and trend of the ocean carbon sink, which are sizable (+- 0.4 Gt C/y over the last decade; Friedlingstein et al 2024) and limit the efficacy of plans for mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
