Innovative Research Program Projects, 2007

Cleaning up Toxins Found in Crude Oil and Tar
Optimizing a "Green Chemistry" Bioprocess: Decreasing Toxicity to Microbes during Conversion of Napthalene to 1-Naphthol (Shelley D. Copley and Ryan T. Gill)

Climate, Land Use and Carbon Cycling in Soils
The Fate of Old Carbon in Stream Ecosystems (William M. Lewis, Jr. and James H. McCutchan, Jr. )

A Small, Fast, Sensitive and Versatile NO2 Detector
Measurement of Nitrogen Dioxide by cw Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy (Eric Williams, Bill Dube, and Steve Brown)

A Novel Method of Tracking Sediment
Using Radio Transponder Tagged Clasts to Test Fluvial Sediment Dispersion Theory (D. Nathan Bradley and Gregory E. Tucker)

An Experiment in Non-linear Geophysics
Should We Care About a Variable and Noisy Sun? (Tom Chase)

Measuring Temperature and Wind Simultaneously from the Ground Up
New Doppler LIDAR using Double-edge Atomic Absorption Filter with 3-Frequency Transmitter to Study Gravity Wave Excitation, Propagation, and Dissipation from Ground to Upper Atmosphere (Xinzhao Chu, Wentao Huang, and Mike Hardesty)

Improved Hurricane Forecasting
Improving the Initialization of Hurricane Forecast using an Ensemble-based Data Assimilation Technique (Xuguang Wang, Tom Hamill, and Jeff Whitaker)