Field research centers

Additional Field Research Centers be developed by ERSD ... 

Additional Field Research Centers be focused on the conditions and environmental problems extant at DOE sites diat differ from those at the ORNL site ... 

New Field Research Centers have broad applicability to the research programs supported by the ERSD, and not sinq>ly the research focus of the NABIR program and... 

New Field Research Centers focus on scientific questions that arise from the need to remediate contamination due to radionuclides and mixed wastes (radionuclides with associated contaminants), contaminants that, within the United States, are predominantly the responsibility of DOE. 

The report also contains a recommendation that 10-15% of available research funds be spent in the support of field research centers. It seems clear, therefore, that significant resources will be provided for siqiporting field sites suitable for EMSP research, enabling continued nrogress toward inq lementation in the DOE cleanup program of the concepts ing studied in projects of the type described in this volume. 

P. M. Sawko and S. R. RiccitieUo, Tech. Brief ARC-11043, NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., July 1977. 

NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., Apr. 1969. 

Ames Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, CA 94035... 

Yagi, M. (1990) Hydrothermal alteration of the Fushime geothermal field, Kyushu, Japan — Distribution of potassium and rubidium. Research Reports, Japex Research Center, 6, 74-103 (in Japanese). 

R. Stephen Berry, University of Chicago, IL, USA John I. Brauman, Stanford University, CA, USA A. Welford Castleman, Jr., Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA Enrico Clementi, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France Stephen R. Langhoff, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA K. Morokuma, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Peter J. Rossky, University of Texas atAustin, TX, USA Zdenek Slanina, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic Donald G. Truhlar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA IvarUgi, Technische Universitat, Munchen, Germany... 

According to Summers and Chang from NASA s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field (1993), the oxidation of Fe2+ to Fe3+ provided a possibility for the reduction of nitrites and nitrates to ammonia. This reaction would have been of great importance, as NH3 is required in many syntheses of biogenesis precursors. The authors assume that nitrogen was converted to NO in a non-reducing atmosphere, and thence to nitrous and nitric acids. These substances entered the primeval oceans in the form of acid rain , and here underwent reduction to NH3 with the help of Fe2+, thus raising the pH of the oceans to 7.3. Temperatures above 298 K favoured this reaction, which can be written as ... 

Arthur L. Weber (1998), now working at the Seti Institute of the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, reports the successful synthesis of amino acid thioesters from formose substrates (formaldehyde and glycolaldehyde) and ammonia synthesis of alanine and homoserine was possible when thiol catalysts were added to the reaction mixture. On the basis of his experimental results, Weber (1998) suggests the process shown in Fig. 7.10 to be a general prebiotic route to amino acid thioesters. 

Field Layout and Management. The experiment was done on a level field of about 5 hectares on the Harford Teaching and Research Center of Cornell University at Harford, N.Y. The soil was a Howard gravelly loam with essentially uniform characteristics over the experimental area. The two formulations were applied to separate rectangular experimental plots of 2.97 hectares each,... 

P.J.C. Aerts, O.. Visser, L. Visscher, H. Merenga, W.A. de Jong, and W.C. Nieuwpoort, MOLFDIR, University of Groningen, The Netherlands L. Visscher, T.J. Lee and K.G. Dyall, RELCCSD, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. 

Containers, media and seeds. Glass Petri dishes, 100 x 15 cm, were used with two sheets of 75-mm Whatman 41 filter paper as the absorptive medium. Ten seeds of TAM105 wheat were placed in a radial pattern with the micropyle end toward the center between the two sheets of filter paper. Seeds were hand-selected for normal size and absence of damage. TAM105 was selected because it is the variety used in the ongoing field research on conservation tillage practices. The bottom section of each Petri dish cover was covered with a square of kitchen-type plastic wrap to retard moisture loss before the lid was pressed on. 

ER-2 Investigators Handbook High Altitude Missions Branch, Airborne Missions and Applications Divisions, NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, 1988. 

Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center, Watertown, Mass. 02172. fNASA Research Center, Moffett Field, San Jose, Calif. 95100. 

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