Recent advances and trends in subsea technologies and seafloor properties characterization by Djikpesse, Hugues, Sobreira, Jorge Fiori F., Hill, Andy, Wrobel, Kelly, Stephen, Ralph, Fehler, Michael, Campbell, Kerry, Carriere, Olivier, Ronen, Shuki

“…Following the 2012 SEG Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, the SEG Research Committee sponsored a post-convention research workshop on subsea technologies, in general, and on seafloor characterization in particular. …”
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Optical Detection of Lasers with Near-term Technology at Interstellar Distances by Clark, James R, Cahoy, Kerri

“…This paper examines the ability to produce a laser beam detectable to a cursory survey (SNR 0.1% with a 1 m receive telescope) by an extraterrestrial intelligence using proven or near-term technology (megawatt-class lasers, telescopes tens of meters in size). …”
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An analysis of technology gaps and priorities in support of probe-scale coronagraph and starshade missions by Lawson, P. R., Stapelfeldt, K., Brenner, M., Lisman, D., Siegler, N., Unwin, S., Warfield, K., Seager, Sara

“…An analysis is provided of the remaining technology gaps and the relative priorities of technology investments leading to a mission that could follow JWST. …”
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Heat of formation of some ferro-calcic singulo-silicates by Wen, Ching Yu, 1881-

Subjects: “…Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy…”
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Measuring a fair and ambitious climate agreement using cumulative emissions by Solomon, Susan, Friedlingstein, Pierre, Peters, Glen P., Andrew, Robbie M.

“…Given such necessary and unprecedented mitigation and the current lack of availability of some key technologies, we suggest a new diplomatic effort directed at ensuring that the necessary technologies become available in the near future.…”
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Impacts of the Minamata Convention on Mercury Emissions and Global Deposition from Coal-Fired Power Generation in Asia by Giang, Amanda Chi Wen, Stokes, Leah, Streets, David G., Corbitt, Elizabeth S., Selin, Noelle E

“…Assuming only current technologies but a global transition away from coal avoids 6% and 36% more emissions than this strict technology scenario under heavy coal use for China and India, respectively.…”
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100 Years of the Ocean General Circulation by Wunsch, Carl Isaac, Ferrari, Raffaele

“…The central change in understanding of the ocean circulation during the past 100 years has been its emergence as an intensely time-dependent, effectively turbulent and wave-dominated, flow. Early technologies for making the difficult observations were adequate only to depict large-scale, quasi-steady flows. …”
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The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory mission concept by Mennesson, Bertrand, Gaudi, Scott, Seager, Sara, Kiessling, Alina, Warfield, Keith, HebEx Study Team

“…For the first time in human history, technologies have matured sufficiently to enable an affordable space-based telescope mission capable of discovering and characterizing Earthlike planets orbiting nearby bright sun-like stars to search for signs of habitability and biosignatures. …”
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Introductory lecture: air quality inmegacities by Molina, Luisa Tan

“…Since the Great London Smog and thefirstrecognized episode of Los Angeles photochemical smog seventy years ago, substantialprogress has been made in improving the scientific understanding of air pollution and indeveloping emissions reduction technologies. However, much remains to beunderstood about the complex processes of atmospheric oxidation mechanisms; theformation and evolution of secondary particles, especially those containing organicspecies; and the influence of emerging emissions sources and changing climate on airquality and health. …”
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Nanopore sequencing at Mars, Europa, and microgravity conditions by Carr, Christopher E., Bryan, Noelle C., Saboda, Kendall Nicole, Ruvkun, Gary, Bhattaru, Srinivasa Aditya, Zuber, Maria

“…Nanopore sequencing, as represented by Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ MinION, is a promising technology for in situ life detection and for microbial monitoring including in support of human space exploration, due to its small size, low mass (~100 g) and low power (~1 W). …”
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Bringing physics to life at the submesoscale by Ferrari, Raffaele, Franks, Peter J. S., Martin, Adrian P., Rivière, Pascal

“…Because of their short time and space scales, sampling of submesoscale features requires new technologies and approaches. This paper presents a critical overview of current knowledge to focus attention and hopefully interest on the pressing scientific questions concerning these dynamics.…”
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Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data by Pesant, Stéphane, Not, Fabrice, Picheral, Marc, Kandels-Lewis, Stefanie, Le Bescot, Noan, Gorsky, Gabriel, Iudicone, Daniele, Karsenti, Eric, Speich, Sabrina, Troublé, Romain, Dimier, Céline, Searson, Sarah, Acinas, Silvia G., Bork, Peer, Boss, Emmanuel, Bowler, Chris, De Vargas, Colomban, Gorsky, Gabriel, Grimsley, Nigel, Hingamp, Pascal, Iudicone, Daniele, Jaillon, Olivier, Kandels-Lewis, Stefanie, Karp-Boss, Lee, Karsenti, Eric, Krzic, Uros, Not, Fabrice, Ogata, Hiroyuki, Pesant, Stéphane, Raes, Jeroen, Reynaud, Emmanuel G., Sardet, Christian, Sieracki, Mike, Speich, Sabrina, Stemmann, Lars, Sullivan, Matthew B., Sunagawa, Shinichi, Weissenbach, Jean, Wincker, Patrick, Follows, Michael J

“…The Tara Oceans expedition (2009–2013) sampled contrasting ecosystems of the world oceans, collecting environmental data and plankton, from viruses to metazoans, for later analysis using modern sequencing and state-of-the-art imaging technologies. It surveyed 210 ecosystems in 20 biogeographic provinces, collecting over 35,000 samples of seawater and plankton. …”
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The SPectrometer for Ice Nuclei (SPIN): an instrument to investigate ice nucleation by Kristensen, Thomas Bjerring, Ignatius, Karolina, Welti, Andre, Voigtländer, Jens, Kulkarni, Gourihar R., Sagan, Frank, Kok, Gregory Lee, Dorsey, James, Nichman, Leonid, Kirchgäßner, Amélie Catharina Ruth, Ladkin, Russell, Wex, Heike, Wilson, Theodore W., Ladino, Luis Antonio, Abbatt, Jon P. D., Stetzer, Olaf, Lohmann, Ulrike, Stratmann, Frank, Cziczo, Daniel James, Garimella, Sarvesh, Rothenberg, Daniel Alexander, Roesch, Michael

“…The SPectrometer for Ice Nuclei (SPIN) is a commercially available ice nucleating particle (INP) counter manufactured by Droplet Measurement Technologies in Boulder, CO. The SPIN is a continuous flow diffusion chamber with parallel plate geometry based on the Zurich Ice Nucleation Chamber and the Portable Ice Nucleation Chamber. …”
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A global ocean atlas of eukaryotic genes by Carradec, Quentin, Pelletier, Eric, Da Silva, Corinne, Alberti, Adriana, Seeleuthner, Yoann, Blanc-Mathieu, Romain, Lima-Mendez, Gipsi, Rocha, Fabio, Tirichine, Leila, Labadie, Karine, Kirilovsky, Amos, Bertrand, Alexis, Engelen, Stefan, Madoui, Mohammed-Amin, Méheust, Raphaël, Poulain, Julie, Romac, Sarah, Richter, Daniel J., Yoshikawa, Genki, Dimier, Céline, Kandels-Lewis, Stefanie, Picheral, Marc, Searson, Sarah, Jaillon, Olivier, Aury, Jean-Marc, Karsenti, Eric, Sullivan, Matthew B., Sunagawa, Shinichi, Bork, Peer, Not, Fabrice, Hingamp, Pascal, Raes, Jeroen, Guidi, Lionel, Ogata, Hiroyuki, de Vargas, Colomban, Iudicone, Daniele, Bowler, Chris, Wincker, Patrick, Acinas, Silvia G., Boss, Emmanuel, Gorsky, Gabriel, Grimsley, Nigel, Karp-Boss, Lee, Krzic, Uros, Pesant, Stephane, Reynaud, Emmanuel G., Sardet, Christian, Sieracki, Mike, Speich, Sabrina, Stemmann, Lars, Velayoudon, Didier, Weissenbach, Jean, Follows, Michael J

“…While our knowledge about the roles of microbes and viruses in the ocean has increased tremendously due to recent advances in genomics and metagenomics, research on marine microbial eukaryotes and zooplankton has benefited much less from these new technologies because of their larger genomes, their enormous diversity, and largely unexplored physiologies. …”
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Sequencing nothing: Exploring failure modes of nanopore sensing and implications for life detection by Pontefract, Alexandra, Hachey, Julie, Ruvkun, Gary, Zuber, Maria, Carr, Christopher E.

“…Using Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) MinION, we assess whether single molecule sequencing, involving no amplification, generates noise signals that could be misinterpreted in the context of a planetary exploration mission, and also whether the ability of the instrument to handle these types of situations could make it feasible for clean room monitoring. …”
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Meeting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions goals with the international air pollution provision of the clean air act by Yuan, Mei, Barron, Alexander R, Selin, Noelle E, Picciano, Paul D, Metz, Lucy E, Reilly, John M, Jacoby, Henry D

“…Different approaches (based on legal precedent) for the interstate allocation are considered, along with alternative rates of technology improvement. The detail needed to analyze this approach is provided by MIT’s U.S. …”
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ASIRI: An Ocean–Atmosphere Initiative for Bay of Bengal by Wijesekera, Hemantha W., Shroyer, Emily, Tandon, Amit, Ravichandran, M., Sengupta, Debasis, Jinadasa, S. U. P., Fernando, Harindra J. S., Agrawal, Neeraj, Arulananthan, K., Bhat, G. S., Baumgartner, Mark, Buckley, Jared, Centurioni, Luca, Conry, Patrick, Gordon, Arnold L., Hormann, Verena, Jarosz, Ewa, Jensen, Tommy G., Johnston, Shaun, Lankhorst, Matthias, Lee, Craig M., Leo, Laura S., Lozovatsky, Iossif, Lucas, Andrew J., Mackinnon, Jennifer, Nash, Jonathan, Omand, Melissa M., Pham, Hieu, Pinkel, Robert, Rainville, Luc, Ramachandran, Sanjiv, Rudnick, Daniel L., Sarkar, Sutanu, Send, Uwe, Sharma, Rashmi, Simmons, Harper, Stafford, Kathleen M., St. Laurent, Louis, Venayagamoorthy, Karan, Venkatesan, Ramasamy, Teague, William J., Wang, David W., Waterhouse, Amy F., Weller, Robert, Whalen, Caitlin B., Farrar, John Thomas, Mahadevan, Amala

“…ASIRI combines new and mature observational technologies to resolve submesoscale to regional-scale currents and hydrophysical fields. …”
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Modeled and observed ozone sensitivity to mobile-source emissions in Mexico City by Molina, Mario J., Lei, Wenfang, Molina, Luisa Tan, Zavala-Perez, Miguel Angel

“…The emission characteristics of mobile sources in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA) have changed significantly over the past few decades in response to emission control policies, advancements in vehicle technologies and improvements in fuel quality, among others. …”
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Trend analysis from 1970 to 2008 and model evaluation of EDGARv4 global gridded anthropogenic mercury emissions by Muntean, Marilena, Janssens-Maenhout, Greet, Song, Shaojie, Olivier, Jos G. J., Guizzardi, Diego, Maas, Rob, Dentener, Frank, Selin, Noelle E

“…Combined, the improved technologies and mitigation measures in these sectors accounted for 401.7 tonnes of avoided mercury emissions in 2008. …”
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Evaluation of mobile emissions contributions to Mexico City's emissions inventory using on-road and cross-road emission measurements and ambient data by Zavala-Perez, Miguel Angel, Herndon, S. C., Wood, E. C., Onasch, T. B., Knighton, W. Berk, Kolb, Charles E., Molina, Luisa Tan

“…Despite the impressive increases in the size of the vehicle fleet between 2000 and 2006, the early morning ambient concentrations of CO and NOx [NO subscript x] have not increased accordingly, probably due to the reported low removal rates of older vehicles, which do not have emissions control technologies, and partially due to the much lower emissions from newer gasoline vehicles. …”
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