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Agricultural row crops occupy over 240 million acres of land in the United States (USDA-NASS2012). Decisions regarding the implementation of management practices in these agricultural areashave a significant effect on other environmental outcomes including soil erosion water quality andcarbon sequestration. There is currently no systematic and cost-effective method for documentingdetailed informat ...

A Thermal Distillation Process for Expanding Water ResourcesDr. Andrew Lowenstein AIL Research Principal InvestigatorMost of the world's freshwater usage—as high as 70%—goes to agriculture. Unfortunately inmany of the country's major farming regions secure sources of agriculture water are threatened:freshwater aquifers are being over pumped coastal saltwater intrusion is tainting fre ...

The key technical problem and resultant commercial opportunity addressed by this Phase II SBIRsubmission is a global lack of biodegradable lubricants and functional fluids which are both highperformance [synthetic esters polyalphaolefin (PAO)] and affordable [mineral oil seed oil]. Thetechnical goals of the submission involves fine tuning the lubricants sucessfully developed duringPhase I creating ...

In the 4th quarter of 2017 QuakeWrap® Inc. (QW) received the Phase I grant from the USDepartment of Agriculture (USDA) / National Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under its SmallBusiness Innovation and Research (SBIR) Program for improvement and agricultural/irrigationapplications of its InfinitPipe® technology.The new technology offers an economical pipe that can be built in urban and rural areas al ...

The goal of this SBIR Phase I project is to conduct research and prove the feasibility ofmeasuring soil properties using cutting-edge detectors customized optical accessories anddata processing algorithms.Our overall project goal is to bring to market a portable soilsensor which can analyze soil samples in near real-time in Phase II and beyond.Growers rely on soil analysis to help them assess the ...

Using Renewable Energy to Make Tilapia Production Financially Viable for Small FarmsInvestigator: Fox W.S. Institution: Arizona Green (Div. of Teach Sharp LLC) Elfrida AZMaking production of tilapia (and other warm-water fish) financially viable and sustainable on asmall-farm scale depends on several factors. The number-one constraint is the need to maintaino o tropical water temperatures (70 to 1 ...

Assessment of wildland fire smoke exposure is a genuine concern to fire managers public healthofficials air quality regulators and the public. Exposure to vegetation fire smoke products posesacute and chronic health hazards to first line responders firefighters and to communities locateddownwind of their source. Current instrumentation capable of providing reliable air quality data isexpensive and ...

During the Phase I effort, Semandex Networks and its team developed a prototype capability to detect trends in research publications by automatically identifying emerging concepts within the data. The implemented capability provides insights into past and

The detection of radionuclide aerosols is a critical indicator of a nuclear detonation. Existing sensors as part of the International Monitoring System operate in a batch process and typically have a 48 to 72 hour delay between aerosol sample collection and measurement activities due to limits of instrument sensitivity. The continuous, instantaneous measurements of atmospheric aerosol radiation le ...

Orora Design Technologies proposes to develop electronic design automation (EDA) tools employing minimally invasive circuit design-based methods to mitigate single event effects (SEEs) for next generation Ultra-DSM CMOS (