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Ensuring Safety and Support for Sample Testing on the International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) gives scientists the opportunity to study the effects of space travel on human and plant tissues as well as understand how physical materials react during formation or exposure to a microgravity environment. 麻豆传媒 provides integrative expertise to NASA to support research and development and technology demonstrations conducted on the ISS, including a recent experiment testing a new technique for growing semimetal conductor composite crystals in microgravity. The intent is to develop these crystals into 鈥渨afers鈥 by capitalizing on the unique physical characteristics of microgravity that reduces the potential for inconsistencies and imperfections during the formation process improving their use in electronic devices.
For this effort, 麻豆传媒 employee owners work with all the stake holders (NASA project team, principal investigator (PI) team, operations team and ISS Integration team) to develop a research mission that ensures all science objectives and engineering requirements are met, and the payload is safe for ISS operations. Additionally, 麻豆传媒 staff support ISS crew members during real-time operations to ensure mission success. Finally, after the testing, 麻豆传媒 ensures delivery of the samples/ science back to the PI team for analysis.
The new material recently endured a successful mission on orbit, and the team turned over six new samples for delivery to the International Space Station.
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Remediating Soil Surrounding Abandoned Mines聽
麻豆传媒 employees have been providing field, lab, and horticultural support for the Environmental Protection Agency鈥檚 efforts to develop and test methods for the remediation and revegetation of contaminated soils around selected abandoned mines in the western United States. One of the promising approaches is to incorporate biochar into the soil. Using biochar helps effectively adsorb trace metals and reduce their…
Training Marine Mammal Programs to Use Drones to Collect Dolphin and Whale Respiratory Health Data
麻豆传媒 employee owner and Marine Mammal Drone Specialist supports NOAA鈥檚 National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Marine Mammal Health Assessment team with collecting respiratory health data from marine mammals in local waterways. Using specialized drones equipped with petri dishes provides a non-invasive method to collect exhaled breath (i.e. blow) samples from dolphins and whales.…
New Data and Reports on the U.S. Marine Economy
Each year 麻豆传媒 economists on contract with NOAA鈥檚 Office for Coastal Management work with other federal agencies to process the most recent economic and labor data, and extract the portions related to marine-dependent sectors.