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usiness and industry need to anticipate the potential risks and opportunities that climate change may create in the decades ahead in order to start now to ensure continued success and prosperity. This project is transforming the results of scientific computer climate research into quantitative business-specific formats that provide actionable foresight for adapting to climate change. Climate simul ...

Future particle physics experiments at the high-energy frontier such as the High Luminosity- Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), International Linear Collider (ILC) or Multi-TeV Muon Collider, will all require silicon detectors capable of reconstructing charged particle trajectories with high accuracy in the presence of extremely high luminosity (1035/cm2/sec in the case of the HL-LHC). These experime ...

Throughout the world, there is a critical need for readily accessible modeling tools that can transform climate change research into useful intelligence that is relevant to local decision-makers. These individuals need more than the standard visualizations of global-scale temperature and precipitation changes that are currently available on informational websites; they need that data translated in ...

Heavy metal (such as lead, uranium, chromium etc.) contamination is a widespread concern that poses a problem for public health when contaminated water is consumed or enters the food chain. Monitoring our water resources is important to achieve timely remediation. Heavy metal testing is typically done in the laboratory by sophisticated analytical techniques that are time consuming and expensive. A ...

With the increase of energy consumption and water stress, power plant cooling, which accounts for 40% of fresh water withdrawal, has been received more and more attention. Dry cooling technology is currently the most feasible solution to reduce this water consumption. However, the cost of the dry cooling system can be more than 5 times of the typical wet cooling system. Increase the dry cooling ef ...

The continuous push towards higher photon energies and higher imaging resolution in X-ray analysis systems has brought current state-of-theart X-ray focusing zone plates to a limit of 20 nm resolution at

The goal of this project is to develop, prototype, and experimentally validate a new Differential Global Navigation Satellite System (DGNSS) capable of providing sub-centimeter positioning accuracy for quasi-static scientific, survey, and structural health monitoring application. The main feature of the proposed DGNSS solution is that it leverages publically available GNSS reference data from exis ...

Piasecki Aircraft (PiAC) proposes to continue development and testing efforts of the Whimbrel UAS, a low cost, expendable, air-deployed weather survey unmanned aircraft system. The Whimbrel UAS, a low cost, expendable, air-deployed weather survey unmanned aircraft system. The Whimbrel USA has been developed to support the Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer mission requirements and contains sensors an ...

Eden Park Illumination, Inc. is pursuing the development and commercialization of large arrays of microcavity plasmas capable of generating light in the vacuum ultraviolet and deep ultraviolet wavelength ranges (VUV and UVC espectively), but in a slim and flat form factor. Ultraviolet is well known to be efficient in enabling a number of chemical processes, and is particularly effective for disinf ...

Novel, inline measurement techniques are needed to improve the quality and performance of new solar cells. Manufacturers today measure cell performance inline under white light conditions, but are unable to obtain the cell response as a function of wavelength without extensive offline testing. They are also unable to extract detailed spatial maps of full-spectrum spectral response. This informatio ...