Nuclear Chemical and Isotopic Science and Technology - 2021

Project Title	Project Code	Principal Investigator	Project Type	Project Status
Development of Novel Ligand-Based Systems to Study the Chemical Properties of the Transactinides	19-ERD-003	John Despotopulos	Exploratory Research	Final
Earth’s Leaky Core: Identifying Signatures of Core Materials in the Lithosphere	21-LW-046	Jan Render	Lab-Wide	Continuing
Addressing Unresolved Questions About the Solar System with New Lunar Samples from the Apollo Missions	20-ERD-001	Gregory Brennecka	Exploratory Research	Continuing
Reverse-Engineering the Neutron-Nucleus Interaction	21-ERD-006	Gregorio Potel Aguilar	Exploratory Research	Continuing
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
Elusive Actinium: A First Glimpse into the Coordination Chemistry of Element 89	20-LW-017	Gauthier Deblonde	Lab-Wide	Final
Constraining the Origin of Earth’s Water with Isotope Tracers in Astromaterials	19-LW-046	Erik Oerter	Lab-Wide	Final
Deciphering Fingerprints of Stellar Nucleosynthesis Through Nuclear Reaction Rate Measurements and Isotopic Analyses of Stardust	20-ERD-030	Brett Isselhardt	Exploratory Research	Continuing
Cosmogenic Tracers to Reveal the Sensitivity of Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems to Changing Climate	21-LW-071	Amanda Deinhart	Lab-Wide	Continuing
Beta Decay at the Limits of Nuclear Stability: Integrating Ab Initio Calculations and Kinematically Complete Measurements	19-ERD-011	Aaron Gallant	Exploratory Research	Final
Understanding Angular Momentum in Nuclear Fission	20-LW-045	Aaron Gallant	Lab-Wide	Continuing
Probing the Structure of a Perfect Liquid Using Jets and Machine Learning	20-ERD-041	Aaron Angerami	Exploratory Research	Continuing