Adam Wolf

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Publications

  • 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

  • Environmental Monitoring Platform, interface to self- describing sensors and flexible energy harvesting system

    Filed US 62039132

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Courses

  • Biosphere Atmosphere Interactions

    BIO164

  • Design and Construction of Environmental Sensors

    CEE474

Projects

  • Pulsepod

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Honors & Awards

  • 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.

  • Water Sustainability and Climate

    National Science Foundation

    Impacts of Agricultural Decision Making and Adaptive Management on Food Security in Africa ($1,900,000)

  • Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Graduate Participant

    Stanford

    The Leopold Leadership Program supported visits to Washington DC to learn communication strategies for press or policy.

  • 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.

  • Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) Graduate Fellowship

    USAID

    The Global Livestock CRSP supported my graduate research in agriculture and climate change in Northern Kazakhstan.

  • 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)

  • Grand Challenges

    Princeton

    What trees could learn from Alan Greenspan ($210,000)

  • Macrosystems Biology

    National Science Foundation

    Extreme events and ecological acclimation: Scaling from cells to ecosystems ($241,000)

  • Princeton Innovation Forum

    Keller Entrepreneurship Center

  • 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)

  • 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)

  • Strategic University Research Partnership

    Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    Rapid forest triage by sub-canopy micro air vehicle ($100,000)

  • 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

  • Russian

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Organizations

  • American Geophysical Union

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