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James Moran

Institution
Michigan State University

Projects

Integrated Pennycress Resilience Project (IPReP)

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Pubudu Handakumbura
Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) is under development as a winter annual oilseed bioenergy crop for the 80 million-acre U.S. Midwest Corn Belt and other temperate regions including the Pacific Northwest…

Linking phosphorus and carbon in rhizosphere nutrient cycling

Lead Institution
Michigan State University
Principal Investigator
James Moran
Project type
FICUS Research
Plant root exudates provide a significant carbon (C) source for rhizosphere microbial communities. In return, these communities help mobilize nutrients needed for plant growth. For instance,…

TWIN Ecosystems Project

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Nancy Hess
The goal of the TWIN ecosystem project (‘TWINS’) is to pilot laboratory and field ‘twin’ ecosystems that use sensors and autonomous controls to test the hypothesis that compositional changes in root…

Isotope ratio measurements for chemical provenance determination

Lead Institution
Michigan State University
Principal Investigator
James Moran
At its core, stable isotope analysis is a well-established technique for supporting chemical forensic attribution efforts. Here, we seek to employ non-traditional isotope methods by leveraging…

Stable Isotope Ratios of Cyanides and Phosgene

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Helen Kreuzer
This is funded research from NSD, which comes under the umbrella of NSDs 80% access to the isotope ratio mass spectrometer.

The Effects of Earthworms on Ecosystem Multifunctionality (E3M)

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Christer Jansson
In a collaborative endeavor between EMSL and the CNRS Ecotron facility in Monpellier, France, we are launching a pilot project, E3M, to explore how Ecotron’s Macrocosm platform with ecosystem-scale…

Combined Castor Marker and Isotope Profile for Ricin Forensics

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Helen Kreuzer
There is a need for a number of independent analytical techniques to associate different ricin samples with each other, correlate to source materials, or demonstrate processing steps have occurred…