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Mercury Vapor Pressure Correlation
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 An apparent difference between the historical mercury vapor concentration equations used by the mercury atmospheric measurement community and a … more
Fundamental Chemical Metrology
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 The Analytical Chemistry Division serves as the Nation’s reference laboratory for chemical compositional measurements and standards to … more
Marine Environmental Metabolomics
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 NIST is developing NMR-based metabolomics for use as a tool to expand research on the impacts of environmental stressors on marine organisms. The … more
Nanoparticle Measurements and Standards for Biomedical Applications and Health
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 Our goal is to develop certified reference materials, standard test methods, measurements, and critical data for the physicochemical … more
Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 The Gas Metrology Group has undertaken a major climate change program that involves collaborations with key stakeholders in the United … more
Carbon Mitigation Measurements
Last Updated Date: 10/04/2012 The global environmental problems caused by emission of CO 2 (global warming, rising sea levels and increased acidity of oceans) must be abated. … more
Carbon Mitigation
Last Updated Date: 10/04/2012 The goal of this project is to identify and develop standards and measurement methods currently needed by the energy industry to enable the … more
NIST Intercomparison Exercise Program for Organic Contaminants in the Marine Environment
Last Updated Date: 10/04/2012 Since the beginning of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Status and Trends (NS&T) Program in 1987, NIST … more
Hyperspectral Image Projector (HIP)
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Detecting climate change with remote sensing instruments, providing state-of-the-art surveillance imagery for security and defense, or getting the … more
Lunar spectral irradiance and radiance (LUSI)
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 LUnar Spectral Irradiance and radiance (LUSI) is a proposed suite of instruments to radiometrically characterize the Moon for use as an on-orbit … more
Standard Reference Materials for Hexavalent Chromium in Contaminated Soil
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Significant environmental remediation efforts are being conducted to address the hazards posed by the long-term terrestrial disposal of hexavalent … more
Simultaneous Determination of Mercury and Tin Species in Standard Reference Materials
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Methods applicable to the extraction and quantification of mercury and tin species in biological, environmental, and clinical reference materials … more
Certification of Three Soil SRMs for Inorganic Environmental Measurements
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Analysis of soils for metals and other elements is essential in assessing environmental compliance and the impacts of potentially toxic elements … more
Measurements and Standards for Contaminants in Environmental Samples
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 For the past 40 years NIST has developed SRMs for the determination of inorganic and organic contaminants in environmental matrices such as … more
Measurements and Standards for Contaminants in Biological (Human) Materials
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 For the past 25 years NIST has developed a number of biological fluid and tissue Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) primarily for clinically … more |
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