Projects

As a scientific user facility, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) provides expertise, instrumentation, and resources to 250 projects each year.

EMSL projects displayed on the EMSL web site project page reflect project abstracts and information migrated to this page before April 30, 2024. To review current and past EMSL user projects, visit EMSL Science Central.™

Non-destructive SEM-based analysis of complex functional structures in insects: development of tools for rapid species diagnosis in tropical biodiversity surveys

Lead Institution

University of Idaho

Principal Investigator

N Pellmyr

Project type

Exploratory Research

Primary analysis of high levels of biodiversity requires means to rapidly recognize distinct biological species. This is traditionally done using semi-destructive methods. The proposed project will…

High performance sequence alignment: OMB software effectiveness metric studies for FY06

Lead Institution

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kenneth Roche

Project type

Exploratory Research

ScalaBLAST is a new software extension to the NCBI BLAST distribution enabling very high throughput for biological sequence alignments. ScalaBLAST has been selected by OMB as a test code expected to…

Infrared Spectra of HCN at Low Temperatures

Lead Institution

NASA Langley Research Center

Principal Investigator

Mary Smith

Project type

Exploratory Research

The scientific return from Cassini and other missions to the outer planets will be enhanced by improving fundamental knowledge of the spectroscopic parameters in the 14-&#956;m bands of hydrogen…

Effects of Temperature and Time (130 Years) on Surface Charges and Chemical Properties of Black Carbon

Lead Institution

Cornell University

Principal Investigator

Chih-hsin Cheng

Project type

Exploratory Research

In recent years, geochemical and biological properties of black carbon (BC) have received increasing attention owing to its potential importance in a wide range of biogeochemical processes. BC refers…

Development of Variational Transition State Theory

Lead Institution

University of Minnesota

Principal Investigator

Donald Truhlar

Project type

Exploratory Research

Maui Scheduler, Allocations, Whacker, Event Management

Lead Institution

Maui High Performance Computing Center

Principal Investigator

Dave Jackson

Project type

Exploratory Research

Functional Genomics Visualization

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Augustin Calapristi

Project type

Exploratory Research

Scalable Graphics Engine for IBM SP

Lead Institution

IBM

Principal Investigator

Peter Hochschild

Project type

Exploratory Research

Mesh Generation

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Harold Trease

Project type

Exploratory Research

Studies of the Influence of Solvent on Quantum Mechanical Rate Theory

Lead Institution

Eastern Washington University

Principal Investigator

Robin McRae

Project type

Exploratory Research

Quantum Mechanical Dynamics in the Condensed Phase

Lead Institution

University of Chicago

Principal Investigator

Gregory Voth

Project type

Exploratory Research

Study of quantum statistical mechanics of condensed phase systems

A Joint Theoretical-Experiment Study of the Dynamic Properties of Clusters

Lead Institution

University of Crete, Greece

Principal Investigator

Stavros Farantos

Project type

Exploratory Research

Accurate Ground and Excited State PES of Ozone

Lead Institution

University of Vienna

Principal Investigator

Hans Lischka

Project type

Exploratory Research

Simulation of Electronic Spectra in Metal Ion-Rare Gas Clusters

Lead Institution

University of Crete, Greece

Principal Investigator

Stavros Farantos

Project type

Exploratory Research

Molecular Multipole Moments in Water Clusters and Ice Ih

Lead Institution

University of Iceland

Principal Investigator

Hannes Jonsson

Project type

Exploratory Research

Grids-Meshes: Computational Physics and National Defense

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Harold Trease

Project type

Exploratory Research

Discrete Mathematical Models of Emer.

Lead Institution

Heritage College

Principal Investigator

Ryan Landvoy

Project type

Exploratory Research

FESEM Analysis of Reversible Gels

Lead Institution

Advanced Imaging Technologies

Principal Investigator

Anna Gutowska

Project type

Exploratory Research

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION (PLEASE DO NOT USE ON THE EMSL WEB SITE): We have developed novel polymers based on poly(lactic acid-co-glycolic acid)-poly(ethylene glycol) . These polymers form reversible…

Investigation of Analytical Methods for Trace Analysis of Fluoride Glass

Lead Institution

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Mary Cisper

Project type

Exploratory Research

EMSL has several analytical instruments that could be helpful to us in our effort to improve quantification of trace elements such as Fe, Cu, Ni, and Cr (as well as others) in glass samples. To…

Interaction of water and formic acid with oxide surfaces.

Lead Institution

Brown University

Principal Investigator

Li-Qiong Wang

Project type

Exploratory Research

This proposal involves using x-ray photoelectrocn spectroscopy to study the itneraction of water and formic acid with oxide surfacesz. The interaction of formic acid and water with stepped SrTiO3…

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