Yonggang Wang, assistant professor of meteorology at State University of New York at Oswego, recently received a $234,022 grant from the National Science Foundation to support research into cold-air outbreaks in the sub-arctic region, or the CAESAR project.

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Wang will take four students with him on the research trip in early 2024. The experiment will use state-of-the-art facilities and will deploy an NSF National Center for Arctic Research C-130 aircraft to document convective clouds during cold-air outbreaks. The clouds can produce heavy snowfall, occasionally generating intense “polar lows” that affect the overall climate of the Arctic. The outbreaks will be studied over the open waters between northern Sweden and the Arctic ice edge from Feb. 22 to April 7, 2024.

Wang also has another grant to give students experience using measurements provided by the Department of Energy to study Arctic cold-air outbreaks. He used this funding to work with three students over the summer on research related to the CAESAR project.

The CAESAR project will be both a national and international collaboration, with students from across both the U.S. and Europe joining Wang and his four students on the trip. While this is a potential learning experience for STEM students, Wang says any SUNY Oswego student can apply, regardless of their field of study.

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