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Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

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Meeting

2025 MONet Community Science Meeting

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The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) is hosting the Molecular Observation Network (MONet) Community Science Meeting Feb. 2-6, 2025.
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Instruments & Resources

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The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory offers access and use of advanced scientific instruments and resources to the research community through open calls for proposals.

Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability

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The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory’s (EMSL’s) Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability (M2PC) is designed to offer an integrated suite of automated phenotyping instrumentation and analytical tools that unlocks functional knowledge about microbial and microbiome communities.

Latest News

Science Areas
Environmental Transformations and Interactions
Research Highlight

Uncrewed Vehicle Obtains Aerosols from an Important Atmospheric Zone for Subsequent Characterization Using 3-D Molecular Imaging

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A new approach reveals details about aerosol properties from hard-to-sample areas in the atmosphere. 
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More News

Iron Rescues Algal Photosynthesis During High Lipid Production
Organonitrates in Atmospheric Particles Vary with Altitude
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EMSL Chief Science Officer Named to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Twenty-Eight Projects Selected for EMSL Large-Scale Research Awards
PeakQC Software Advances Quality Control for Omics-Agnostic Mass Spectrometry

Research Highlights

Science Areas
Environmental Transformations and Interactions
Research Highlight

Uncrewed Vehicle Obtains Aerosols from an Important Atmospheric Zone for Subsequent Characterization Using 3-D Molecular Imaging

ArticShark lands in a landing strip
A new approach reveals details about aerosol properties from hard-to-sample areas in the atmosphere. 
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Science Areas
Functional and Systems Biology
Research Highlight

Iron Rescues Algal Photosynthesis During High Lipid Production

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A study tracking the roles of iron during lipid accumulation in a single-celled alga reveals key features of photosynthesis and biofuel production.  
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Science Areas
Environmental Transformations and Interactions
Research Highlight

Organonitrates in Atmospheric Particles Vary with Altitude

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Scientists reveal new organic molecular details about vertically resolved atmospheric particles at ARM’s Southern Great Plains observatory. 
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