Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, now a University of Scranton physics and electrical engineering professor, has won a $1.3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study weather effects in the ionosphere by leveraging a network of amateur radio stations.

Frissell is perhaps best known within our amateur radio community as the founder of HamSCI, the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation initiative.

The Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments (DASI) project will be implemented over 3 years. As principal investigator, Frissell — a space physicist — will head a collaborative team that will develop ground-based space science observation instruments and software.

His research effort will recruit multiple universities and radio amateurs to operate a network of personal space weather stations