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.™

Microbial CH4 and CO2 Fluxes and C Stabilization Mechanisms in Soils

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Vanessa Bailey

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Current versions of the Community Land Model (CLM) do not represent the soil biogeochemical mechanisms controlling the fluxes of CO2 and CH4, two known greenhouse gases (GHG).. This failure is…

Coupled Hydro-Geophysical Inversion of River Water Intrusion and Biogeochemical Transport Modeling at the Hanford 300 Area

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Xingyuan Chen

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

As part of the 2013 research portfolio within the Climate and Environmental Sciences Division of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) at the Department of Energy Office of…

Atmospheric Chemistry of Biomass Burning Aerosol

Lead Institution

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Principal Investigator

Daniel Knopf

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Biomass burning aerosols (BBA) are one of the most ubiquitous organic aerosol types with a source strength on the same order of magnitude as fossil fuel combustion. BBA have significant effects on…

Advanced NMR analysis of the physical interactions leading to biochemical cohesiveness and enzymatic recalcitrance of grass cell walls

Lead Institution

Pennsylvania State University

Principal Investigator

Daniel Cosgrove

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This is a proposal to use advanced solid-state NMR methods to elucidate the architecture and arrangement of cell walls of plants, grass species in particular. It was conceived within and will be…

Integrated analysis of air pollution in central West Antarctica Brazilian standalone module - Criosfera 1

Lead Institution

Federal University of Parana

Principal Investigator

Ricardo Godoi

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Bromwich et al. 2012 recently revealed, by meteorological observation, a linear increase in annual temperature between 1958 and 2010 by 2.4+/-1.2 degrees C, establishing central West Antarctica as…

FIB/TEM Study of Uranium-Phosphate Mineralization in Subsurface Sediments

Lead Institution

Washington University in St. Louis

Principal Investigator

Jeffrey Catalano

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Uranium contamination of the subsurface at DOE sites has resulted from past mining, milling, and waste disposal processes. Phosphate addition has been proposed as a potential remediation strategy for…

Reactivity and dynamics of complex systems

Lead Institution

University of Minnesota

Principal Investigator

Donald Truhlar

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The project involves an ongoing collaboration of 20+ researchers from University of Minnesota, University of South Carolina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Pacific Northwest National…

Chemical Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosols and Cloud Water using High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Single-Particle Microscopy

Lead Institution

University of Michigan

Principal Investigator

Kerri Pratt

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

High-resolution tandem mass spectrometry and single particle microscopy analysis will be utilized to determine the organic molecular composition and size-dependent mixing state of atmospheric…

An Integrated Experimental and Theoretical Study of Actinide Clusters

Lead Institution

Brown University

Principal Investigator

Lai-Sheng Wang

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Understanding the chemistry of the actinide elements, in particular uranium, is of critical importance to the mission of the U.S. Department of Energy. With the challenges to develop renewable…

Molecular Surface Spectroscopy of Secondary Organic Aerosol Particles

Lead Institution

Northwestern University

Principal Investigator

Franz Geiger

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

This proposal focuses on applying EMSL's high-resolution vibrational spectroscopy (hr-SFG) capabilities (Hongfei Wang), nano-DESI high-resolution mass spectrometry analysis techniques (Julia and…

Inorganic controls on the incorporation of Np(V) and U(VI) in carbonate, sulfate and borate minerals

Lead Institution

University of Notre Dame

Principal Investigator

Peter Burns

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The co-precipitation of actinides in low-temperature mineral phases may exert a significant control on mobility in the subsurface. According to the Department of Energy, Neptunium (Np) is an…

Towards a Predictive Thermodynamic Model for Oxidation States of Uranium Incorporated in Fe (hydr)oxides

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Eugene Ilton

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Bacterially facilitated and abiotic heterogeneous reduction of UVI to UIV has been intensively studied due to the vastly different solubility of hexavalent and tetravalent uranium, with ramifications…

Influence of Rhizosphere Iron on Carbon Cycling in a Wetland Environment

Lead Institution

Savannah River National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Daniel Kaplan

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

About 20% of the earth's carbon resides in wetlands and another 20% of the organic carbon in sediment is associated to reactive iron phases, either existing in wetlands or elsewhere. This…

Fundamental of High Entropy Alloy: computationally guided material design

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jun Cui

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We propose a comprehensive effort aimed at understanding the fundamentals of high entropy (HE) alloys, in particular, thermodynamics of alloy formation, stability, and deformation mechanism at high…

Atmospheric System Research Studies

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jerome Fast

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

A major PNNL's research effort funded through DOE's Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Program focuses on current knowledge gaps in aerosol effects on climate. The overall goal of this…

Sulfur Isotope Fractionation Analysis of Individual Atmospheric Particles

Lead Institution

Purdue University

Principal Investigator

Alexander Laskin

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

We propose a set of laboratory studies focused on understanding of chemical forms, oxidation states, and isotopic fractionation of sulfur in atmospherically aged particles collected in a number of…

Structural Investigation of Crystalline Cellulose in Plant Cell Walls Using High-Resolution Non-linear Spectroscopy and Microscopy

Lead Institution

Pennsylvania State University

Principal Investigator

Seong Kim

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Plants use much of the carbon and solar energy captured during photosynthesis to produce cell walls, which are a valuable resource of renewable energy. Plant cell walls are processed for use as…

3-D acid site determination in zeolite crystals as a function of porosity and reaction conditions

Lead Institution

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Principal Investigator

Simon Bare

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Zeolites are microporous aluminosilicate materials with a wide range of applications including catalysis, water purification, agriculture, and laundry detergents. In the petrochemical industry,…

Molecular Level Analysis of Photochemical Processing of Brown Carbon and Nitrogen Compounds in Atmospheric Aerosols

Lead Institution

University of California, Irvine

Principal Investigator

Sergey Nizkorodov

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Atmospheric aerosols have a profound effect on climate by scattering and absorbing solar and Earth radiation. They can be predominantly scattering (e.g., sea-salt aerosol), predominantly absorbing (e…

Investigating mechanisms for negative priming of soil organic carbon by pyrogenic carbon using NanoSIMS and LA-AMS

Lead Institution

Cornell University

Principal Investigator

Johannes Lehmann

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

Reduced turnover rate (often referred to as “negative priming”) of soil organic carbon (SOC) by pyrogenic black carbon (pyC) has the potential to have dramatic long-term effects on soil carbon stocks…

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