NCSLI 2020 Virtual Conference

 August 24 - 26

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Monday, August 24, 2020 
9:00 AM (MT) Conference Open live 
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9:30 AM - 11:00 AM (MT)
Plenary Talk live - MORE INFO 
"NOAA Measurements of CO2 and other Greenhouse Gases: From the Laboratory to Remote Regions of the Globe" 

Tuesday, August 25, 2020 
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (MT)
Plenary Talk live - MORE INFO 
"More Than Just a Picture: Making MRI Quantitative" 

Sponsor Spotlight live - MORE INFO 
Additel Corporation 
Calibrated By Transcat 

Wednesday, August 26, 2020 
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (MT)
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"Metrology for Cosmological Physics" 

Sponsor Spotlight live - MORE INFO 
Guildline Instruments
Fluke Calibration

Virtual Technical Program Online Module: All registered speakers and attendees will receive a link by email to access the On-demand program beginning August 24, 2020 and lasting approximately one year. An online discussion forum will be available for questions about each presentation that speakers can answer asynchronously. In addition, we will have a live streamed Conference Welcome and Plenary Speakers starting on August 24, 25, and 26, beginning at 9:00 AM (MT) (GMT-06:00). These presentations will be uploaded for on-demand viewing if you are not able to attend live.

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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

THERMOSENSE XLIII

Vendors Presentations and Reception XVII

Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.

Monday 12 April 2021 — 12 noon - 4:45 pm

 What is new in hardware, software, systems integration, calibration and accessories: Infrared all bands, multispectral and hyperspectral imaging and non-contact temperature measurement :

This session is now in its seventeenth year and has become very popular at the SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing Symposia.This unique venue provides an early opportunity for exhibitors to highlight their latest technology and products to ThermoSense and IR community prior to the opening of the DCS-2012 exhibits.

This also enables the technical conference attendees to better prioritize their activities when visiting the exhibits. It is a casual meeting with with ample time for questions and answers. 

Session includes:

• Exhibitors sharing state-of-the-art in future generation of infrared detectors, IR imagers radiometric and non-radiometric and IR image processing systems
• Explores other related infrared optics, semitransparent materials ,characterization and calibration sources, infrared fiber optics, coolers, multispectral and hyperspectral cameras
• It also covers topics related hardware and software involved in infrared applications: NIR - SWIR - MWIR - LWIR

For more information please check the following link: 
Guidelines - General and specific topics 

                                                

Mystery of the Dimming of Betelgeuse

 

New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that blocked starlight coming from Betelgeuse’s surface.

Betelgeuse is an aging, red supergiant star that has swelled in size as a result of complex, evolving changes in the nuclear fusion processes in its core. The star is so large that if it replaced the Sun at the centre of our Solar System, its outer surface would extend past the orbit of Jupiter. 

The unprecedented phenomenon of Betelgeuse’s great dimming, eventually noticeable to even the naked eye, began in October 2019. By mid-February 2020, the brightness of this monster star had dropped by more than a factor of three. 

Read the full release online at: https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic2014/?lang

State of the Climate in 2019

 

This is the 30th issuance of the annual assessment now known as State of the Climate, published in the Bulletin since 1996. As a supplement to the Bulletin, its foremost function is to document the status and trajectory of many components of the climate system. 

However, as a series, the report also documents the status and trajectory of our capacity and commitment to observe the climate system.

DOWNLOAD STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2019
Download high resolution version (139 MB)

View by Chapter:

• Executive Summary
• Table of Contents, Abstract, and Introduction
• Global Climate
• Global Oceans
• The Tropics
• The Arctic
• Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
• Regional Climates
• Relevant Datasets and Sources

More details at the AMC website: https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/state-of-the-climate/

First Observation of a Total Lunar Eclipse By a Space Telescope

 

Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected ozone in Earth’s atmosphere. This method serves as a proxy for how they will observe Earth-like planets around other stars in the search for life. 

This is the first time a total lunar eclipse was captured from a space telescope and the first time such an eclipse has been studied in ultraviolet wavelengths.

In a new study, Hubble did not look at Earth directly. Instead, astronomers used the Moon as a mirror that reflects the sunlight that has been filtered through Earth’s atmosphere. 

Using a space telescope for eclipse observations is cleaner than ground-based studies because the data is not contaminated by looking through Earth’s atmosphere.

Read the whole news story online at: 

https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic2013/?lang

Lake Shore Acquires Janis Research Laboratory Cryogenics Business

Lake Shore Cryotronics today announced the acquisition of Janis Research’s Laboratory Cryogenics business — a move that unites two of the world’s leading providers of cryogenic and material characterization solutions for low-temperature research. 

The acquisition of the Woburn, MA, based business enables Lake Shore to now offer Janis Research liquid nitrogen (LN2), liquid helium (LHe), and closed-cycle refrigerator (cryogen-free) cryostats, LHe and cryogen-free superconducting magnet systems, cryogenic and cryogen-free probe stations, and various lab cooling systems. 

This acquisition by Lake Shore does not include the Janis dilution refrigerator or He-3 ultra-low temperature (ULT) system product lines. These will be available from JanisULT, a separate, privately-owned company.  

“Janis is an ideal fit for Lake Shore,” said Michael Swartz, Lake Shore Cryotronics President and CEO. “They’re highly knowledgeable about the needs of scientists and others working in low-temperature physics and early-stage materials research, and together, we can offer a more complete portfolio of product solutions. We are impressed with the design to customer requirement capabilities of Janis Research.” 

Founded in 1961, Janis Research began as a manufacturer of LHe transfer lines and soon expanded its product offering to include cryogenic research equipment, ranging from simple LHe storage Dewars to sophisticated superconducting magnet and low-temperature systems.

Scott Azer, Janis Research’s VP of Business Development, said, “The Janis team is thrilled to become part of a world-class organization like Lake Shore. We see many synergistic product opportunities ahead, combining Lake Shore’s expertise in instrumentation, applications, and system engineering with Janis' strength in cryogenic system design and fabrication. We look forward to serving the scientific community even more effectively than before, as members of the Lake Shore family.”

Janis Research will maintain product development, engineering, manufacturing, and product shipping operations in Woburn, MA. 

For more information visit:

https://www.lakeshore.com/about-us/press-releases/2020/08/05/lake-shore-cryotronics-acquires-janis-research-laboratory-cryogenics-business

Far-UVC light (222 nm) and human coronaviruses

In a June 24th article in Nature Scientific Reports by 

Manuela Buonanno, 

David Welch, 

Igor Shuryak & 

David J. Brenner

“Far-UVC light (222 nm) efficiently and safely inactivates airborne human coronaviruses”

...we have shown that very low doses of far-UVC light efficiently kill airborne human coronaviruses carried by aerosols. A dose as low as 1.2 to 1.7 mJ/cm2 of 222-nm light inactivates 99.9% of the airborne human coronavirus tested from both genera beta and alpha, respectively. As all human coronaviruses have similar genomic size, a key determinant of radiation sensitivity27, it is likely that far-UVC light will show comparable inactivation efficiency against other human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2.

Together with previous safety studies12,13,14,15,16,17,18 and our earlier studies with aerosolized influenza A (H1N1)23, these results suggest the utility of continuous low-dose-rate far-UVC light in occupied indoor public locations such as hospitals, transportation vehicles, restaurants, airports and schools, potentially representing a safe and inexpensive tool to reduce the spread of airborne-mediated viruses. While staying within the current regulatory dose limits, low-dose-rate far-UVC exposure can potentially safely provide a major reduction in the ambient level of airborne coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2.

Read the full article online at:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67211-2