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Wintertime vertical distribution of air pollution in suburban Fairbanks during the ALPACA 2022 field campaign
Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini, Roman Pohorsky
The Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) field campaign investigated the sources and processing of wintertime urban pollution in Fairbanks, Alaska in January and February 2022. Several sites located around the city of Fairbanks collecte ...
2023Estimating pollution spread in water networks as a Schrödinger bridge problem with partial information
Incidents where water networks are contaminated with microorganisms or pollutants can result in a large number of infected or ill persons, and it is therefore important to quickly detect, localize and estimate the spread and source of the contamination. In ...
Amsterdam2023Unraveling submesoscale processes associated with meso- and basin-scale gyres in Lake Geneva
In large lakes, basin-scale gyres and submesoscale eddies, i.e., rotating coherent water masses, play a key role in spreading biochemical materials and energy throughout the basin, thereby significantly impacting water quality. Due to their transient and s ...
EPFL2023Business power and the regulation of pollution: oil refineries in Switzerland in the early 1960s
In the late 1950s and in the 1960s, in response to the surge of gasoline and fuel oil consumption, several international oil companies planned the building of refineries in Switzerland, linked to European pipelines. Two were realized, out of four propositi ...
2022Automated identification of local contamination in an Arctic aerosol time series
Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot, Lubna Dada
A common challenge of Atmospheric measurements in remote environments is to identify local pollution from nearby sources. During the MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) expedition, we measured aerosol and gaseous ...
2021Imaging Nonradiative Point Defects Buried in Quantum Wells Using Cathodoluminescence
Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Wei Liu
Crystallographic point defects (PDs) can dramatically decrease the efficiency of optoelectronic semiconductor devices, many of which are based on quantum well (QW) heterostructures. However, spatially resolving individual nonradiative PDs buried in such QW ...
AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021Thermal Effects on Flow and Salinity Distributions in Coastal Confined Aquifers
Coastal aquifers provide an important hydrologic connection between terrestrial freshwater and oceanic seawater. Understanding the water flow and salinity distributions in those aquifers is essential to manage seawater intrusion and regional groundwater re ...
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2020Mask to identify polluted periods during the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition
Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini
Aerosol and trace gas measurements are strongly affected by the ship exhaust and other human activities (e.g., helicopter flights). Therefore, it is important to discriminate between clean and polluted periods. This mask provides an indication of clean per ...
2020Assessment of abundance and community composition of benthic macroinvertebrates: recommendations for improved sampling, fixation and extraction of oligochaetes
Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Régis Lionel Vivien
For several decades, the abundance and community structure of benthic macroinvertebrates have been studied to assess the biological quality of aquatic ecosystems. Procedures aiming at studying the whole of macroinvertebrate communities were mainly designed ...
2020Sustainable, Reshapable Surfactant-Polyelectrolyte Plastics Employing Water as a Plasticizer
Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Zhangjun Huang, Haiyan Jia
Natural polymers such as those present in foods contain abundant noncovalent intra- and intermolecular interactions, notably hydrogen bonds, which make them rigid when dry, but on exposure to water soften, due to disruption of these interactions. This soft ...
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