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HML Organic Chemical Metrology Program Areas
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 The Organic Chemical Metrology Program exists within the Analytical Chemistry Division, MML, which is located at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in … more
NIST Aids the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Area of Marine Animal Health
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Marine animal health is affected by stressors including disease and man-made pollution. NIST assists NOAA primarily by evaluating marine-life … more
Monitoring Contaminants in the Arctic and Subarctic Using Banked Seabird Eggs
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 More than 95% of the seabirds breeding in the continental United States nest at colonies in the Bering and Chukchi seas and Gulf of Alaska. In … more
The NIST Standard Reference Photometer for Ozone Measurement Traceability
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 The NIST Standard Reference Photometer (SRP), developed jointly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), has provided an … more
Isotopes as Environmental Tracers in Archived Biological Specimens
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 There is increasing interest in the analytical and environmental communities in using mercury isotopic fingerprinting to identify source patterns … more
Applied spectroradiometry and imaging metrology
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Spectroradiometers are widely used for acquiring colorimetric, photometric, and radiometric quantities with a single measurement for a variety of … more
Assessing the Internal Structure and Composition of Climatically-Relevant Atmospheric Particles
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Atmospheric particles with long atmospheric lifetimes affect Earth's radiative balance. These particles typically consist of multiple chemical … more
Trophic Transfer of Nanoparticles in a Simplified Invertebrate Food Web
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 We demonstrated that carboxylated and biotinylated quantum dots (QDs) can be transferred to higher trophic organisms (rotifers) through dietary … more
Renewable Polymers
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Economic growth, such as that experienced in developed countries over the last century, cannot continue into the next century nor spread to less … more
Microcryocooler for Terahertz Detectors
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 NIST and the University of Colorado have been funded since April, 2006, by DARPA to develop a microcryocooler with a volume less than about 4 cm 3 … more
International Standards on the Properties of Water
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 Researchers in the Thermophysical Properties Division of CSTL played a leading role in the development of several new international standards for … more
Real Fuels
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 This programs is aimed at determining the fundamental chemical and physical properties of the large organic compounds in fuels related to their … more
Spectroscopic Measurements of Atmospheric Gases for Monitoring Greenhouse Gases
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 Climate scientists are developing a new generation of spectrometers for the NASA-sponsored inventory of atmospheric greenhouse gases, most notably … more
Nanoparticle Distribution in the Natural Environment
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 Given the substantial differences between nanoparticles (NPs) and typical organic and inorganic environmental contaminants, new methods and … more
Reference Materials and Standards for Fossil Fuels, Electric Utility Emissions, and Coal Combustion By-Products
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) fossil fuel Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) continue to be in high demand by the … more |
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