As a scientific user facility, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) provides expertise, instrumentation, and resources to 250 projects each year. Current and past projects supported through a variety of EMSL user proposal avenues are publicly searchable on the EMSL website.
Browse current and past research projects supported by the EMSL User Facility.
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Project pages provide details including:
- Research team and institution
- The EMSL project DOI
- Link to project data available in EMSL’s Data Portal
- Project type
Imaging the Spatial Effects of Hydraulic Redistribution on Root Exudation
Lead Institution
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Principal Investigator
Richard Marinos
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Microbial diversity, complexity, and dynamics within a ‘grass-to-glass’ profile at a late iron age archaeological site, and as a function of climatic variables
Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Carolyn Pearce
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Vertical Distribution of Aerosol Properties during TRACER
Lead Institution
Washington University in St. Louis
Principal Investigator
Rajan Chakrabarty
Project type
FICUS Research
Real-time detection of biogeochemical hotspots within saturated sediments
Lead Institution
Boise State University
Principal Investigator
Kevin Roche
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Opening the black box of glacial carbon cycling–providing fundamental insight into impacts of a changing climate
Lead Institution
Montana State University
Principal Investigator
Heidi Smith
Project type
FICUS Research
A high-resolution view of the plant–microbe–mineral interactions affecting C-cycling in thawed permafrost soils
Lead Institution
University of New Hampshire
Principal Investigator
Jessica Ernakovich
Project type
FICUS Research
Linking biotic drivers of soil structure to solute flows through soil profiles
Lead Institution
University of Kansas
Principal Investigator
Sharon Billings
Project type
MONet
iTopS: integrative topological scores with functional molecular modeling
Lead Institution
University of Kansas Medical Center
Principal Investigator
Mihaela Sardiu
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Molecular scale investigations of the interaction of soil organic N with soil minerals
Lead Institution
Michigan State University
Principal Investigator
Yuan Liu
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Absolute quantification of components of the algal photosynthetic apparatus in response to environment and modification of chlorophyll biosynthesis
Lead Institution
University of California, Berkeley
Principal Investigator
Sabeeha Merchant
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Scale-bridging soil imaging and modeling using physics-informed machine learning
Lead Institution
University of Houston
Principal Investigator
Kalyana Nakshatrala
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Soil-based carbon dioxide sorption: Image analysis, numerical modeling, and deep learning
Lead Institution
Kansas State University
Principal Investigator
Behzad Ghanbarian
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Investigation of Copper Binding in A Metal-chelating Plant Protein
Lead Institution
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Principal Investigator
Ritimukta Sarangi
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Visualizing the cellular and molecular bases underlying desiccation tolerance.
Lead Institution
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Principal Investigator
Marisa Otegui
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Epidermal plastid reprograming during microbial colonization
Lead Institution
University of Chicago
Principal Investigator
Jean Greenberg
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Characterizing physical and molecular interactions of engineered nitrogen fixing bacterial inoculants with wheat roots and synthetic soil
Lead Institution
Pivot Bio, Inc.
Principal Investigator
Jennifer Teschler
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Characterising the polluted dust layers reaching Himalayas: Size segregated chemical speciation, optical properties and mixing state of aerosol mixtures
Lead Institution
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Principal Investigator
Chandan Sarangi
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
The role of biopolymers in controlling kinetics of mineral growth via particle aggregation
Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Dongsheng Li
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Chemical and Morphological Analysis of Aerosols in the Stratosphere and Upper Troposphere and Their Ice Nucleation Potential
Lead Institution
Harvard University
Principal Investigator
Frank Keutsch
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Characterization of Organosulfates and Organonitrates in Vertically-Resolved Aerosols over the Southern Great Plains
Lead Institution
University of California, Riverside
Principal Investigator
Haofei Zhang
Project type
FICUS Research