Environment/Climate Portal - OverviewThrough its partnerships with industry, government, and academia, NIST is helping to advance measurements and tools for environmental science, for example by calibrating the sensors of climate-mapping satellites and detecting ever more minute quantities of toxins and pollutants in our air, soil, water, and blood. Programs and Projects
Traceable Calibration Gases: SRMs, NTRMS, and Protocol Gases
The Gas Metrology Group in the Chemical Sciences Division is tasked with providing traceability in gas analysis for the U.S. This group works with … more
Lunar spectral irradiance and radiance (LUSI)
LUnar Spectral Irradiance and radiance (LUSI) is a proposed suite of instruments to radiometrically characterize the Moon for use as an on-orbit … more
Hyperspectral Image Projector (HIP)
Detecting climate change with remote sensing instruments, providing state-of-the-art surveillance imagery for security and defense, or getting the … more
Simultaneous Determination of Mercury and Tin Species in Standard Reference Materials
Methods applicable to the extraction and quantification of mercury and tin species in biological, environmental, and clinical reference materials … more
Standard Reference Materials for Hexavalent Chromium in Contaminated Soil
Significant environmental remediation efforts are being conducted to address the hazards posed by the long-term terrestrial disposal of hexavalent … more
Certification of Three Soil SRMs for Inorganic Environmental Measurements
Analysis of soils for metals and other elements is essential in assessing environmental compliance and the impacts of potentially toxic elements … more |
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