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Big Game and Agtech (about that McKinsey chart)
Big Game and Agtech (about that McKinsey chart)
By Adam Wolf
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It was a pleasure contributing to the first working group session for Germany's national long-term strategy on negative emissions and discuss the…
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A huge milestone for us! We’re grateful to all of the great investors who have come on board and can’t wait to see what’s in store over the next few…
A huge milestone for us! We’re grateful to all of the great investors who have come on board and can’t wait to see what’s in store over the next few…
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📢📢📢 Some personal news... Pleased to share that last month I joined the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) as Managing Director, to…
📢📢📢 Some personal news... Pleased to share that last month I joined the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) as Managing Director, to…
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Experience & Education
Publications
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Improved Removal of VOCs for Laser-Based Spectroscopy of Water Isotopes
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
ABSTRACT:
Rationale -- Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as methanol and ethanol in water
extracted from plants cause spectral interference in isotope ratio infrared spectroscopy
(IRIS). This contamination degrades the accuracy of measurements, limiting the use of
IRIS. In response, this study presents a new decontamination method of VOCs for
enhanced IRIS measurements.
Methods -- The isotopic composition of water from laboratory-made and field-collected
plant samples…ABSTRACT:
Rationale -- Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as methanol and ethanol in water
extracted from plants cause spectral interference in isotope ratio infrared spectroscopy
(IRIS). This contamination degrades the accuracy of measurements, limiting the use of
IRIS. In response, this study presents a new decontamination method of VOCs for
enhanced IRIS measurements.
Methods -- The isotopic composition of water from laboratory-made and field-collected
plant samples pre- and post-treatment were analyzed using IRIS. Traditional treatment
methods of activated charcoal and commercial pre-combustion systems (Picarro Micro-
Combustion-ModuleTM, MCM) were compared to our new treatment method that
implements solid phase extraction (SPE). Absolute concentrations of contaminants preand
post-treatment were determined using 1H and 13C Magnetic Resonance to assess the
effectiveness of the different treatments.
Results -- SPE removes an average of 86.7% and 78.8% ethanol and methanol,
respectively, which corresponds with significant reduction of spectral interference. SPE
reduces errors to within instrumental noise for both ethanol and methanol at
concentrations found in nature (<3.0% and 0.08% respectively). Activated charcoal
minimally affected alcohol concentrations. MCM significantly worsened ethanolcontaminated
water isotope measurements by producing primary alcohol oxidation
products such as formic acid, another compound that interferes with IRIS absorption.
Conclusion -- SPE is an effective, low cost method for eliminating errors in ethanolcontaminated
samples. For samples where methanol is prevalent, combining SPE and
MCM is more effective than SPE alone. Hence, SPE-treatment alone or in conjunction
with MCM is recommended as an effective pre-analysis purification method for water
extracted from plants.
Patents
Courses
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Biosphere Atmosphere Interactions
BIO164
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Design and Construction of Environmental Sensors
CEE474
Projects
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Pulsepod
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Honors & Awards
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I-Corps Fellow
National Science Foundation
The I-Corps program is a Lean Startup incubator that is training Pulsepod in to transition NSF-funded scientists into entrepreneurs. Graduates go on to raise funds from SBIR, VC, and foundations to start new companies.
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Water Sustainability and Climate
National Science Foundation
Impacts of Agricultural Decision Making and Adaptive Management on Food Security in Africa ($1,900,000)
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Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Graduate Participant
Stanford
The Leopold Leadership Program supported visits to Washington DC to learn communication strategies for press or policy.
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Earth Systems Science Graduate Fellowship
NASA
The NASA ESS Fellowship supported my PhD research focused on data assimilation of remote sensing products to improve land surface model forecasts.
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Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) Graduate Fellowship
USAID
The Global Livestock CRSP supported my graduate research in agriculture and climate change in Northern Kazakhstan.
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Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
National Science Foundation
Dissertation Research: The shadows cast by trees: using allometry, tree-resolving lidar, and ecostem models to inform the global view of forests ($15,000)
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Grand Challenges
Princeton
What trees could learn from Alan Greenspan ($210,000)
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Macrosystems Biology
National Science Foundation
Extreme events and ecological acclimation: Scaling from cells to ecosystems ($241,000)
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Princeton Innovation Forum
Keller Entrepreneurship Center
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Project X & Chancellor for Research
Princeton
Sensor Development and Assessment for in-situ, Realtime Drought and Crop Monitoring to Enhance Food Security in Africa ($125,000)
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RAPID
National Science Foundation
Using open-source ecology to examine tree physiological response and mortality across species during the 2012 United States drought ($100,000)
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Strategic University Research Partnership
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Rapid forest triage by sub-canopy micro air vehicle ($100,000)
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Title VIII Foreign Language and Area Studies
US State Department
I spent a year split between St Petersburg and Moscow studying language and working for NGOs.
Languages
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Russian
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Organizations
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American Geophysical Union
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