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NSF funded Scanning Electron Microscope Instumental in Several Significant Discoveries
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-Abhaya Datye, University of New Mexico
The NSF funded Scanning Electron Microscope at the University of New Mexico has been instrumental in discovering how living organisms can customize their surroundings, creating complex nanostructured architectures that provide protection and sustainability. |
In research reported in the July 21, 2006 issue of Science, C. Jeffrey Brinker, graduate students, Helen K. Baca, Carlee Ashley, and Eric Carnes, and undergraduate student, Deanna Lopez, and colleagues show that living cells exposed to aqueous solutions of silica and patterning molecules organize around themselves a biocompatible interface and a nano-structured silica shell. The cells are immobilized in a robust, customized environment and are easily incorporated into stand-alone packages where they can sense and report on external cues for months. These portable, biocompatible sensors will impact a variety of areas that depend on cell communication, including toxin sensing in extreme environments, rapid drug screening and implantable medical sensors. This work was highlighted in C&E News and Nature Chemical Biology.
From sources as diverse as newspaper archives, transportation ledgers and religious observances, the researchers have amassed 150 years of lake and river ice records spanning the Northern Hemisphere.
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Presentations of A Comparison Between Different Methods Used to Estimate Evapotranspiration Using Remote Sensing
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Julie Coonrod , University of New Mexico
A comparison between different methods used to estimate evapotranspiration using remote sensing was presented at the AWRA Specialty GIS conference in May and at the ESRI International Users Conference in August. The JAWRA editor was present at the AWRA conference where graduate student Alandren Etlantus presented the comparisons. The editor expressed interest in a journal article reporting such findings. The remote sensing group has chosen different temporal and spatial scales to continue these comparisons such that a journal article can be written and submitted to JAWRA. |
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Masters of Water Resources Graduate Student Alicia Paz-Solis, A Bridge Between Graduate Student Research and Education and Outreach
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Julie Coonrod , University of New Mexico
An undergraduate background in engineering but a passion for early education, Alicia Paz-Solis' multi-disciplinary graduate project has morphed into one where she will be developing learning modules for middle school children to learn about water resources and the tools, such as remote sensing, that can be used to learn more about the earth's water resources.
Click Here Alicia Paz-Solis' Webpage |
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The Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC) Achieving Great Things for the NM EPSCoR Hydrology Program
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Karl Benedict , The Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC), UNM
The information technology infrastructure installed at the Earth Data Analysis Center (EDAC) under the auspices of the NM EPSCoR RII hydro project has contributed significantly to the capability of EDAC to acquire, process, store and deliver large volumes of remote sensing and other data products, both to EPSCoR project participants and to other state geospatial data users. Over 94 GB of data have been posted by project participants to the shared storage area developed for the project, with these data being made accessible to project partners through a secure, shared storage capability. An additional 476 GB of remote sensing data have been acquired both in support of the EPSCoR project and also made available to other research programs through a web mapping interface. These data consist of daily MODIS NDVI and multi-spectral reflectance products derived from multiple satellite overpasses and downloaded from USGS t hrough their (now discontinued [effective 2/2/07]) MODIS Direct Broadcast system.
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William Michener Named NM EPSCoR Director
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William Michener has been named the Director of NM EPSCoR. He has been feverishly working on the new NM EPSCoR proposal and looks forward to continuing to be new director into the next round.
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