Tag: Water
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Air quality: rainfall history matters as much as where the air came from
A 19-year ‘goldmine’ of cloud and rainwater samples collected from a New Hampshire mountain provides fresh insights about air pollution.
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A manual for efficient wave energy converter prototyping
An open-source, standardized methodology aims to streamline efforts to design small-scale wave energy converters, moving closer to harnessing offshore renewables.
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Harnessing intricate, self-organized plasma patterns to destroy PFAS
The first images of plasma-water interactions reveal the electrical forces that could help manipulate patterns to treat larger volumes of drinking water more affordably.
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Between rain and snow, machine learning finds 9 precipitation types
Leveraging 1.5M minutes of precipitation data and a nonlinear method to handle complex relationships between variables, the team created a new classification system
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AI increases accuracy of National Water Model flood predictions
AI designed to weed out errors bolsters forecasts and could reduce damage costs.
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Student team brings irrigation to local farm in need
By practicing socially-engaged engineering, the BLUElab Metro team helps a local farmer spread the joy of gardening.
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Satellites reveal tropical wetland flooding did not cause methane surge
Human activity or other wetland factors like temperature or soil chemistry could be at play.
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Making desalination more eco-friendly: New membranes could help eliminate brine waste
Membranes packed with charge help overcome the current salinity limit, making it easier to crystallize ocean salts and harvest valuable minerals from desalination waste.
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How drinking water systems are an untapped resource for grid stability
Water utilities have flexibility as to when they turn the pumps on.
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New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals
Cutting acid and base treatments from conventional desalination plants could save billions of dollars globally, making seawater a more affordable option for drinking water.
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Snowfall and drought: $4.8M field study to improve western US forecasts
A mountaintop laboratory and a suite of radar instruments will study winter storms from large-scale cloud movement down to individual snowflakes in an NSF-funded project.
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Urine-to-fertilizer effort part of NSF Regional Innovation Engine
U-M involved in Great Lakes consortium to support sustainable economic growth