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Water is a critical part of the life of every living creature on the planet, but the ever increasing demand for potable freshwater will soon exceed the availability of groundwater supplies presenting a significant environmental and political issue. Demand increases are being driven by the increasing population growth, increased use irrigation of farm land to increase crop yields and industrial dev ...

There is a manifest need in the US and the world for renewable, lowcost energy. However, conventional and small hydropower systems for (20,000+) low head dams (550ft.) in the US tend to be extremely costintensive due to a variety of configurational issues. These include coffer dams, power houses, complex foundations, complex unit maintenance, large space requirements, and turbine technology requir ...

Electromagnetic and particle-beam modeling is an important part of the design and manufacturing of accelerator components, such as electron beam sources and RF accelerating cavities. The premier electromagnetic and particle modeling tools today allow users to exploit parallel computing resources, both distributed memory CPU and multi-threaded GPU. However, these premier parallel modeli ...

In the proposed collider eRHIC, hadrons from one of the RHIC storage rings will interact with electrons accelerated in a six-pass energy recovery linac (ERL). The maximum energy of protons will be 250 GeV and the maximum energy of electrons will be 30 GeV. The machine will heavily rely on SRF technology. One accelerator physics issue being considered in the design is that the nonlinearities of ...

The DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) was envisioned to provide a framework for modeling dynamic cellular processes of microorganisms, plants and metacommunities. The KBase will provide the tools and data to enable rapid iteration of experiments that draw on a wide variety of data and allow end-users to infer how cells and communities respond to natural or induced perturbations, and ultima ...

The objective of lab-on-chip (LOC) is to integrate and perform multiple analytical processes on a microchip platform. So far, most LOC research has been focused on electrophoretic separations. Limited progress has been made on multi-process integration, due mainly to the lack of a robust and miniaturized pump that can deliver constant flow and be integrated with LOC devices. Microchip HPLC can and ...

This project is is applying the semantic web to the data produced by chemical-physics simulations. The semantic web allows data to be placed on a web site in a way that computers can understand it. This will allow a computer to browse a giant global graph of data, as an agent for scientists, and integrate this data into new knowledge (meta-data).

Low cost and accurate monitoring of sequestered gases such as CO2 is critical to insure that sequestered gases are not reentering the atmosphere. Management requires, in part, improved atmospheric and ground monitoring of greenhouse gases through sensors capable of measuring the flux, concentration and the carbon isotope of CO2 with high accuracy. These Monitoring, Verification and Accounting ...

Next generation reactor concepts cater to a common goal of providing safer, longer lasting and economically viable nuclear power plants. Developing radiation damage resistant materials for both in- core and out-of core applications is a critical component of these next generation power plants. Testing these novel materials requires an intense neutron environment. A commonly used tool for testing n ...

Environmental sensor networks capable of taking data quickly enough to capture minutescale fluctuations and durable enough to capture these data for entire seasons provide essential information for studying the seasonal and annual effects of microbial activity across complete ecosystems. Distributed sensors for subsurface dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration measurement are of particular interest b ...