Specific information gathered from the data was reported out to the U.S. It appears that though there is considerable damage in Galveston and Texas City, there are fewer chemical leaks than during either hurricanes Katrina or Rita. The information from the data collected in the most recent event, Hurricane Ike, was sent to the EPA Region 6 Rapid Needs Assessment and the State of Texas Joint Field Office in Austin, Texas. EPA for their outstanding support to the hurricane response of Gustav in Louisiana and Ike in Texas. Leslie Mansell, CTN-5, and Marilyn Pruitt, IRM-CAS, were recognized the the U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory Divisions that are supporting ASPECT include, in addition to B-Division, CTN-5: Networking Engineering and IRM-CAS: Communication, Arts, and Services. Prior to the deployment to the Gulf Coast, the plane had been monitoring the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. The plane flew over 320 targeted sites in four days, he noted.
Bob Kroutil of Bioscience Division is the project leader, and while he said the team has put in long hours, both on the ground and in the air, its a worthwhile effort. ASPECT is the nations only 24/7 emergency response aircraft with chemical plume mapping capability. Casting about with a combination of airborne photography and infrared spectroscopy, the highly instrumented plane provides emergency responders on the ground with a clear concept of where danger lies, and the nature of the sometimes-invisible plumes that could otherwise kill them. Los Alamos National Laboratory leads a science and technology program supporting the EPA and the ASPECT aircraft. Environmental Protection Agencys National Decontamination Team. 19, 2008: Flying over storm-damaged refineries and chemical factories, a twin-engine plane carrying the ASPECT (Airborne Spectral Photometric Environmental Collection Technology) system has been on duty throughout the recent hurricanes that have swept the Florida and Gulf Coast areas.
The name ASPECT is an acronym for Airborne Spectral Photometric Environmental Collection Technology. Environmental Protection Agency project that can put chemical and radiological mapping tools in the air over an accident scene. More>Ī unique airborne emergency response tool, ASPECT is a Los Alamos/U.S. Her calculations correctly predicted the mass and location of both of the known satellite galaxies. With the help of NERSC systems, she successfully validated her method by analyzing the radio observations of the Whirlpool Galaxy, which has a visible satellite one-third of its size, and NGC 1512, which has a satellite one-hundredth its size. According to Chakrabarti, the dark satellite galaxies create disturbances in the cold atomic hydrogen gas at the edges of the spiral galaxy's disk, and these perturbations reveal the mass, distance and location of the satellite. When she applied this method to our own Milky Way galaxy, Chakrabarti discovered a faint satellite might be lurking on the opposite side of the galaxy from Earth, approximately 300,000 light-years from the galactic center. Using supercomputers at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Sukanya Chakrabarti, an assistant professor of physics at Florida Atlantic University, developed a mathematical method to uncover these "dark" satellites. Scientists suspect that these faint satellite galaxies are primarily comprised of mysterious "dark matter" which makes up 85 percent of all matter in the universe and so far remains undetected. While a few satellites are visible, like the Magellanic Clouds, many other galaxies are too dim to see. Astronomers predict that large spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have hundreds of satellite galaxies orbiting around them.
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