Nathaniel Chaney

Hydrology, Earth system science, soil science, ecology, geomorphology, numerical modeling, high performance computing, machine learning, environmental data delivery and data assimilation.

Selected Grants

Observing and understanding the role of surface thermal heterogeneity in mesoscale circulations over AMF3 BNF: Implications for land-atmosphere interactions

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Energy · 2024 - 2029

Confronting the GFDL land model's sub-grid tiling scheme with observed space-time patterns of land surface temperature: Implications for hydrologic extremes

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2024 - 2027

Artificial Intelligence for Enhancing Sustainability of Water, Nutrient, Salinity, and Pest Management in the Western USA

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Riverside · 2020 - 2025

DISES RCN: SWISLR - Saltwater Intrusion and Sea Level Rise in rural landscapes: Assessing Risk and Identifying Mitigation and Adaptation Options for Rural Coastal Plain Communities.

ResearchSteering Committee Member · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2025

Climate Risks & Interactive Sub-seasonal to Seasonal PredictabilitY (CRISSPY) in the Earth System Modeling framework IIJA/BIL

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Princeton University · 2023 - 2025

Implications of heterogeneity-aware land-atmosphere coupling in the predictability of precipitation extremes

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2022 - 2024

The role of dust in the life cycle of snow: Coupling remote sensing with models to link land-use, climate, and water resources

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 2020 - 2024

Parameterizing the effects of sub-grid land heterogeneity on the atmospheric boundary layer and convection: Implications for surface climate, variability and extremes

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2019 - 2023

Watershed zonation across scales

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · 2022 - 2022

Modernizing Observation Operator and Error Assessment for Assimilating In-situ and Remotely Sensed Snow/Soil Moisture Measurements into NWM

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2019 - 2022

3D-Land Energy and Moisture Exchanges: Harnessing High Resolution Terrestrial Information to Refine Atmosphere-to-Land interactions in Climate Models

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · 2019 - 2022