Project Grant 1060840

The Aerodyne Research Inc. was awarded a $299,842 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program. The grant will fund the development of an in situ system to quantify dissolved greenhouse gases including nitrous oxide and methane in coastal ocean ecosystems from September 1, 2022 through February 28, 2023. Specifically, Aerodyne Research will design field deployable instrumentation for real-time measurements of...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $198,674 Project Grant under the Geosciences program to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The grant will fund the transport and refurbishment of a decommissioned Noble Gas Multi-Collector Mass Spectrometer system. This equipment will be used to conduct isotopic analyses of the heavy noble gases, cosmogenic noble gas nuclides, and 40Ar/39Ar...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) award of $472,062 to the University of Utah provides funding to upgrade the university's noble gas mass spectrometry laboratory. The grant will facilitate the acquisition of a new sector-field and quadrupole mass spectrometer to support hydrologic and geologic research at the Noble Gas Laboratory. This instrumentation will enable continued characterization of groundwater systems by over 140 partner institutions that have...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Ionicscale LLC a $350,000 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to develop submersible enclosure and sampling systems for the company's novel mass spectrometry-based chemical analyzers. These compact, portable instruments are designed for a wide range of applications, including environmental pollution monitoring, personalized medicine, food safety, biomanufacturing, and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, under the Geosciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.050), provides $578,671 to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego to conduct a global survey of helium in the troposphere from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The project aims to advance the application of helium as an atmospheric tracer by building upon a previously developed mass spectrometric...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $491,846 to the University of Washington to acquire a clumped isotope gas-source isotope-ratio mass spectrometer and carbonate sample preparation device. This new instrumentation will advance interdisciplinary Earth sciences research and education through precise temperature and chemical analysis of carbonate minerals formed in soils, oceans, fault zones and other...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $237,745 awarded on September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of a variable temperature ion trap mass spectrometer at Stony Brook University. The mass spectrometer will facilitate isomer-selective thermochemical, structural, and spectroscopic characterization of bimolecular interactions to advance research in biochemistry, medicinal chemistry,...

This Major Research Instrumentation Program award from the National Science Foundation will provide $580,393 to support the acquisition of a triple-quadrupole inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and three dedicated sample processing and introduction systems for the University of California, Santa Cruz's Institute of Marine Science Marine Analytical Laboratory. The laboratory will use the new instrumentation to enable multidisciplinary analytical work by faculty, researchers, and...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $500,408 Project Grant to Oregon State University (OSU) to acquire and install an integrated helium capture and recovery system for the university's Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility. This system will enable the recycling of at least 90% of the over 1,000 liters of liquid helium used annually by the facility's five NMR spectrometers, including Oregon's two highest field NMR instruments. The project...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $490,570 Project Grant under its Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) to develop an autonomous eddy covariance air-sea CO2 flux measurement system for use on moored ocean buoys. This system is designed to provide accurate, low-power measurements of atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide exchange, which is critical for improving the predictive capabilities of climate models. As part of this project,...