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HML Organic Chemical Metrology Program Areas
Last Updated Date: 11/16/2012 The Organic Chemical Metrology Program exists within the Chemical Sciences Division, MML, which is located at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in … more
HML Inorganic Chemical Metrology Program Areas
Last Updated Date: 11/16/2012 The Inorganic Chemical Metrology Program exists within the Chemical Sciences Division, MML which is located at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in … more
Measurements and Standards for Contaminants in Biological (Human) Materials
Last Updated Date: 11/15/2012 For the past 25 years NIST has developed a number of biological fluid and tissue Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) primarily for clinically … more
STARR II
Last Updated Date: 11/14/2012 STARR II is a facility for measuring reflectance and scattering of materials in the ultraviolet to short-wave infrared wavelength range (230 nm to … more
Fundamental Chemical Metrology
Last Updated Date: 10/22/2012 The Chemical Sciences Division serves as the Nation’s reference laboratory for chemical compositional measurements and standards to … more
Mercury Vapor Pressure Correlation
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012 An apparent difference between the historical mercury vapor concentration equations used by the mercury atmospheric measurement community and a … more
Marine Environmental Metabolomics
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012 NIST is developing NMR-based metabolomics for use as a tool to expand research on the impacts of environmental stressors on marine organisms. The … more
Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012 The Gas Metrology Group has undertaken a major climate change program that involves collaborations with key stakeholders in the United … more
Carbon Mitigation Measurements
Last Updated Date: 10/04/2012 The global environmental problems caused by emission of CO 2 (global warming, rising sea levels and increased acidity of oceans) must be abated. … more
NIST Intercomparison Exercise Program for Organic Contaminants in the Marine Environment
Last Updated Date: 10/04/2012 Since the beginning of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Status and Trends (NS&T) Program in 1987, NIST … more
NIST Aids the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Area of Marine Animal Health
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Marine animal health is affected by stressors including disease and man-made pollution. NIST assists NOAA primarily by evaluating marine-life … more
Monitoring Contaminants in the Arctic and Subarctic Using Banked Seabird Eggs
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 More than 95% of the seabirds breeding in the continental United States nest at colonies in the Bering and Chukchi seas and Gulf of Alaska. In … more
The NIST Standard Reference Photometer for Ozone Measurement Traceability
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 The NIST Standard Reference Photometer (SRP), developed jointly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), has provided an … more
Isotopes as Environmental Tracers in Archived Biological Specimens
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 There is increasing interest in the analytical and environmental communities in using mercury isotopic fingerprinting to identify source patterns … more
Applied spectroradiometry and imaging metrology
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Spectroradiometers are widely used for acquiring colorimetric, photometric, and radiometric quantities with a single measurement for a variety of … more |
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