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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.™ 

 

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Role of Ca in Organic Matter Preservation

Lead Institution
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Principal Investigator
Sharon Bone
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Calcium can play a major role in the preservation of carbon in the subsurface due to its ability to participate in cation bridging. Ca2+ can link together two negatively charged moieties, such as two…

Waterborne Plastics Environmental Weathering Leachates

Lead Institution
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Benjamin Maurer
Project type
Large-Scale EMSL Research
Aquatic plastics pollution is anticipated to triple globally by 2040, and many of the effects of aquatic plastics and associated degradation products and contaminants are hitherto unknown. This…

Identification of the SecB residue that is labeled by methanethiosulfonate

Lead Institution
University of Missouri - Columbia
Principal Investigator
Linda Randall
Project type
Exploratory Research
Aim: To identify the residue of SecB that is labeled by methanethiosulfonate (MTSL), a stable nitroxide spin label. SecB, a small tetrameric cytosolic chaperone in E.coli, facilitates the export…

Sulfur absorbents for emission control

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Liyu Li
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of this research is to develop basic understandings for high capacity sulfur absorbents for emission control/

XRD Analysis of Mineral Sample

Lead Institution
Columbia Gem & Jewelry
Principal Investigator
Vincent Rundhaug
Project type
Exploratory Research
A mineral sample from a mining operation initially assayed with exceptional quantities of the platinum metals group. Some samples exhibit some type of surface vapor deposition. Requesting XRD for…

Biogeochemical Heterogeneity in the Subsurface (Long, PNNL scope #16259)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Tom Resch
Project type
Exploratory Research
I need the ion chromatograph for analysis of the injection and calibration solutions for a field bioremediation experiment taking place in Rifle, CO. The injection samples were from the acetate…

Intermediate Flow Cells (PNNL SCOPE #28662)

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Tom Resch
Project type
Exploratory Research
I need the ion chromatograph for analysis of solutions of an intermediate-scale flow cell bio-stimulation experiment. The experiment used porous sand media with lenticular shaped inclusions of…

The synthesis of Au nanoclusters

Lead Institution
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Principal Investigator
Hai-Feng Zhang
Project type
Exploratory Research
The synthesis of the Au clusters with varieties of ligand attracted great attentions from chemist and materials scientist in decades. The discovery of the Au catalyst stimulated a great deal of…

A proteomic approach to the study of Neurospora crassa ribosomal dynamics

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Scott Baker
Project type
Exploratory Research
We propose to apply the LC/MS/MS global proteomics approach to study eukaryotic ribosome dynamics using the model filamentous fungal organism, Neurospora crassa. The experimental tractability and…

Proteomic analysis of Fusarium graminearum sexual development

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Scott Baker
Project type
Exploratory Research
Fusarium graminearum is a major pathogen and the cause of mycotoxin contamination of cereal crops including corn, wheat and barley. The economic impact of F. graminearum infection of these crops is…

Advanced Sorbent Deployment

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Michael Perkins
Project type
Exploratory Research
I am supporting PNNL researcher Shas Mittigod and his project dealing with Self-Assembled Monolayers on Mesoporous Silica (SAMMS) I will be creating animation and graphics to be included in his…

1000 Soils Research Campaign

Lead Institution
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Nancy Hess
Project type
MONet
To more fully understand the cycling of carbon, carbon-based nutrients and key elements from the molecular to basin scale across variations in soil chemistry, the Environmental Molecular Sciences…

Model systems for understanding potassium transformations in fungal biomass

Lead Institution
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Principal Investigator
Ritimukta Sarangi
Project type
Exploratory Research
Soil biota plays an important role in nutrient cycling processes through breakdown of nutrients from soil minerals or organic matter and rebuilding new nutrient structures for storage within their…