Nuclear Chemical and Isotopic Science and Technology

Project Highlights

 
FY2021

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Project Title Project Code Principal Investigator Project Type Project Status
A Search for Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter 20-LW-006 Stephan Friedrich Lab-Wide Continuing
Using Isotope Probing of Microbe-to-Microbe Interactions to Determine the Fate of Carbon and Impacts on Climate Change 19-LW-044 Ty Samo Lab-Wide Final
Redefining the Geologic Timescale of the Solar System by Accurately Determining the Half-Life of Samarium-146 with Magnetic Microcalorimeters 20-LW-024 Geonbo Kim Lab-Wide Continuing
Constraining the Origin of Earth’s Water with Isotope Tracers in Astromaterials 19-LW-046 Erik Oerter Lab-Wide Final
Understanding Angular Momentum in Nuclear Fission 20-LW-045 Aaron Gallant Lab-Wide Continuing
Two Nucleon Interactions and Their Effect on the Visible Universe and the Dark Universe 20-LW-001 Pavlos Vranas Lab-Wide Final
Earth’s Leaky Core: Identifying Signatures of Core Materials in the Lithosphere 21-LW-046 Jan Render Lab-Wide Continuing
Constraining the Habitability of Mars When Water Flowed on Its Surface 20-LW-008 William Cassata Lab-Wide Final
How Rapid is the Rapid Neutron Capture Process? 21-LW-032 Richard Hughes Lab-Wide Continuing
The Incredible Shrinking Proton 21-LW-034 Ramona Vogt Lab-Wide Continuing
Elusive Actinium: A First Glimpse into the Coordination Chemistry of Element 89 20-LW-017 Gauthier Deblonde Lab-Wide Final
Cosmogenic Tracers to Reveal the Sensitivity of Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems to Changing Climate 21-LW-071 Amanda Deinhart Lab-Wide Continuing
Nuclear Reaction Theory in the Precision Era: Probing New Physics in the Early Universe 20-LW-046 Konstantinos Kravvaris Lab-Wide Final
Using Moderately Volatile Elements to Understand the Origin of the Earth-Moon System 19-LW-027 Josh Wimpenny Lab-Wide Final
Ultrahigh-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy Using Cyclotron Radiation Emission 20-LW-056 Kareem Kazkaz Lab-Wide Final
Proliferation of Interstellar Plutonium into the Solar System 19-LW-033 Michael Savina Lab-Wide Final
Addressing Unresolved Questions About the Solar System with New Lunar Samples from the Apollo Missions 20-ERD-001 Gregory Brennecka Exploratory Research Continuing
Deciphering Fingerprints of Stellar Nucleosynthesis Through Nuclear Reaction Rate Measurements and Isotopic Analyses of Stardust 20-ERD-030 Brett Isselhardt Exploratory Research Continuing
The Next Breakthroughs in Neutrino Physics 18-ERD-028 Michael Heffner Exploratory Research Final
The Nuclear Science of Asteroid 16 Psyche 20-ERD-039 Morgan Burks Exploratory Research Continuing