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Temperature is the critical signal that allows monitoring of a myriad of Earth’s processes. From direct measurements of wildfire and urban heat to more complex relationships with drought, agriculture, aquaculture, and biodiversity, maintaining a steady pulse on Earth’s surface temperature enables us to mitigate for and adapt to the impacts of extreme events and increasingly variable water avai ...

The brevetoxins (PbTx) produced by Karenia brevis cause harmful algal blooms (HAB) or "red tide" in seawater. Currently, the only available ways of detecting PbTx are laboratory tests such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, which are expensive and slow, and require complex instrumentation and multiple processing steps. In previous work Intelligent Optical Systems (IOS) demonstrated a compact l ...

The ASHRAE epidemic task force was enlisted to help create guidelines for the reopening of schools after the COVID-19 pandemic. [16] Based on the guidance and HVAC alterations that were accommodated, the next logical question is how to continue to keep the guidance relevant and ensure proper protocol is being followed and risk is being mitigated. Current guidelines do not require sensor monitoring ...

Coal plants are designed as ‘baseload plants’ and are not able to profitably operate in market environments with negative pricing.This project will define a process model that shows how deep electricity storage of several hundred megawatthours can allow a coal plant to absorb negative or low pricing and benefit from high demand curves. We will show how electricity storage using cryogenically c ...

Cyber hacking of critical infrastructure is a concern for our national security, especially in the power/electric utility sector where utilities loose $13.2M per attack. Given the vulnerabilities within the value-chain of electric delivery, the distribution network is an enormous blind-spot and highly susceptible to cyber intrusion. This project looks to address this issue, as sought by the DoE, b ...

The laser wakefield accelerator is one of several advanced accelerator concepts that takes advantage of the extremely high electric fields that can be supported in a plasma. Most experiments to date have operated in unstable regimes, producing either poor quality electron beams with large energy spread or poor shot-to-shot reproducibility. This project will modify the resonant laser wakefield ac ...

40961 November 19, 1996 Sherbrooke Consulting, Inc. Superconducting magnets for the International Thermonuclear Engineering Reactor will require several hundred electrical joints. The joints will be located in high pulsed magnetic fields which will induce losses in the conducting media of the joint and in the superconducting cable itself. These losses add ...