Abstracts of FY2016 Center Innovation Fund (CIF)

Abstracts for the awarded FY16 CIF proposals

A NASA First in Nano-Technology: First Nano-Sensors on a Cell Phone

First nanochemical sensor on a cell phone a carbon nanotube (CNT)-based sensor array in a chip form - was developed and miniaturized to plug in a cell phone. The phone nanosensor has low power consumption and is able to identify a variety of gases/vapors and estimate their concentration

A NASA First in Nano- Technology: First Nano Biosensor for Water Quality Monitoring and Crew Health Management

The successful development showed an alternative to radiation-packaging of existing devices, which leaves Missions with expensive electronics that are few generations behind the state-of-the-art

A NASA First in Nano-Technology: Nano-Electronic Devices in Space

The first active nano-electronic device flown in space was launched on a flight demonstration of a nano-chemical sensor aboard a US Navy satellite in 2007. The same sensor was flown again to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2009 as part of JPL electronic nose for crew cabin air quality monitoring

A bibliographic listing of coastal and marine protected areas : a global survey

This document is the result of a survey of over 600 books, articles, technical reports and personal correspondence reviewing approximately 1,000 coastal and marine protected areas in 87 countries and, in turn, was intended to support a larger project that had been undertaken by the Marine Policy and Ocean Management Center of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in conjunction with the Government of Ecuador to consider the establishment of protected status for the marine area of the Galapagos Archipelago. To provide background for this larger project, a review of existing or proposed marine protect ed areas was initiated. This bibliographic listing is one result of this review.This report was prepared by the Marine Policy and Ocean Management Center of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with funds from the Tinker Foundation, the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA, Office of Sea Grant under Grant Number NA84-AA-D-00033 (E/L-1), and the J.N. Pew, Jr. Charitable Trust