• Passive remote sensing of air-sea interaction processes at millimeter wave frequencies (PI)
  2016-2018
  funding NRL/ONR, 6.1 project
   
• Retrieval of global sea spray aerosol production using satellite microwave radiometry (Co-I)
  2016-2018
  funding NRL/ONR, 6.2 project
   
• Combined Use of L-band reflectometry and radiometry to retrieve surface winds, waves, and wakes in tropical cyclones (Co-I)
  2015-2017
  funding NRL/ONR, 6.1 project
   
• Whitecaps as a surface expression of air-sea processes (PI)
  2011-2015
  funding NRL/ONR, 6.1 project
   
• Sea spray functions (Co-I)
  2005-2010
  funding NRL/ONR, 6.1 project
   
• Whitecap coverage from satellite observations
  2002-2005
  funding NRC, Post-doctoral program
   
• Whitecaps, sea-salt aerosols and climate
  1997-2002
  funding NSF, PhD program
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• Bubble clouds characteristics, a laboratory study
  1995-1997
  funding ONR, MS program
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• Remote sensing of atmospheric wind velocity 
  with coherent Doppler CO2 Lidar
  1987-1994
  funding Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS)
   
• Monitoring atmospheric pollution with diode laser
  1984-1987
  funding Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS)
  

Research interests:  

• Breaking waves, bubbles, whitecaps (sea foam)
• Sea spray, sea-salt aerosols and climate 
• Air-sea interactions, surface fluxes
• Remote sensing, satellite oceanography 
• Lasers/Lidars in oceanography 

  Research related links

• Remote Sensing Physics Group
  Remote Sensing Division, NRL, Washington, DC
• Ocean Information Center
  College of Marine Studies, UD, Lewes, Delaware
• Laboratory of Laser Remote Sensing
  Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences