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Young, Michael

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DOE OSTI2025

Soil Moisture Data for TRACER project (Houston, TX)

The purpose of this study was to collect and distribute ground-truth soil water content and meteorological data in the Houston, TX, area, supporting the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, and the 2022 field campaign for the Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The files herein contain soil water content and meteorological data for three stations that the Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin installed in the Houston, TX, area during the period of performance. The data includes soil moisture, volumetric water content, electrical conductivity of soil, soil temperature, rain precipitation, air temperature and other parameters. Data files within this data set contain measurements at both sub-hourly and 1-hour resolution measurements. The sub-hourly meteorological data file names end with “TRACER_SubHourly_met.dat”, and the sub-hourly soil data files end with “TRACER_SubHourly_soil.dat”. For the 1-hour resolution data, the files ending with "_Soil_flagged.dat” contain mean hourly volumetric soil water content and temperature measured at 5, 10, 20 and 50 cm depths. The files ending with “_Meteoro_flagged.dat” contain mean hourly measured precipitation, air temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction, and solar radiation. All data have undergone QA/QC procedures that are described by Caldwell et al. (2019) and Dorigo et al. (2013) for the soil-specific data, and EPA (2008) for the meteorological data.

Air temperature↗
DOE OSTI2025

TRACER Soil Moisture Data, Guy TX

The purpose of this study was to collect and distribute ground-truth soil water content and meteorological data in the Houston, TX, area, supporting the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, and the 2022 field campaign for the Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The files herein contain soil water content and meteorological data for the Guy, Texas station that the Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin installed in the area of study during period of performance. This station produces two data files. First, the file ending with “_Soil_flagged.dat” contains mean hourly volumetric soil water content and temperature measured at 5, 10, 20 and 50 cm depths. The file ending with “_Meteoro_flagged.dat” contains mean hourly measured precipitation, air temperature and humidity, wind speed and direction, and solar radiation. All data have undergone QA/QC procedures that are described by Caldwell et al. (2019) and Dorigo et al. (2013) for the soil-specific data, and EPA (2008) for the meteorological data.

precipitation↗
DOE OSTI2023

Federal Aviation Administration Vertiport Electrical Infrastructure Study

In this detailed analysis, the authors assess the charging infrastructure needed for the deployment of advanced air mobility involving electrified vertical take-off and landing technologies. The report covers four research areas: (1) Identifying charging infrastructure requirements for existing facilities based on flight operational parameters, potential use cases, charging strategy, and other constraints. (2) Assessing sites on power availability to meet charging demand, the impact on grid infrastructure, potential hazards, and cybersecurity needs, and using technoeconomic analysis to identify opportunities for onsite distributed energy resources, primarily solar photovoltaics and battery energy storage systems. (3) Calculating greenhouse gas emission based on total energy consumption attributable to each site. (4) Analyzing the job and economic development impact for sites adopting new infrastructure.

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY↗
DOE OSTI2022

U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition Guide: 2022 Design Challenge and 2023 Build Challenge

The Solar Decathlon offers a unique experience that enables collegiate teams to develop critical career skills, learn from both national experts and peers, and gain valuable insights from world class thought leaders and mentors. Specifically, student teams are challenged to design and (if part of the Solar Decathlon Build Challenge) build highly energy-efficient buildings powered by renewable energy. Teams are evaluated on 10 measured contests, and the winning teams are those that best blend the topics of architectural and engineering excellence with innovation, market potential, building efficiency, smart energy production, and environmental justice.

Build Challenge↗
DOE OSTI2021

Soil Moisture Data for TRACER project (Houston, TX)

Three soil moisture and metrological data collection sites are located in the Houston, TX, area and collect data every 5 minutes. The data includes soil moisture, volumetric wate content, electrical conductivity of soil, soil temperature, rain precipitation, air temperature and other parameters. For real-time streaming of the data please visit the website: https://coastal.beg.utexas.edu/soilmoisture/#!/

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES↗
DOE OSTI2021

U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition Guide: 2021 Design Challenge and 2023 Build Challenge

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon® is a collegiate competition, comprising 10 Contests, that challenges student teams to design and build highly efficient and innovative buildings powered by renewable energy. The competition gives teams the option to participate in one of two Challenges: the Design Challenge or the Build Challenge. Teams entering the Design Challenge must select from seven allowable building types ("Divisions") to create their design. Teams entering the Build Challenge will build a residential unit locally and compete nationally. Whether participating in the Design Challenge or the Build Challenge, all teams are evaluated across 10 Contests. The Competition Guide outlines competition history and structure, descriptions of the 10 Contests, and competition details for both the 2021 Design Challenge and 2023 Build Challenge.

30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION↗
DOE OSTI2019

Feedbacks Between Surface Deformation and Permafrost Degradation in Ice Wedge Polygons: Modeling Archive

This Modeling Archive is in support of an NGEE Arctic publication "Feedbacks between surface deformation and permafrost degradation in ice wedge polygons," submitted for review to the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. The goals of the study were: 1) to determine how variability in microtopographic conditions (i.e., rim height, trough width, and trough depth) and hydrologic conditions in the trough (i.e., inundated or well-drained) of an ice wedge polygon impact active layer thickness above an ice wedge; and 2) to determine how microtopographic and hydrologic controls on active layer thickness may influence thermokarst trajectories in ice wedge polygon terrain. Toward these objectives, an ensemble of fine-scale simulations of the hydrologic and thermal regimes in ice wedge polygons of variable microtopography was conducted, each polygon being subjected to identical meteorological forcing data, characteristic of the last twenty years near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Simulations incorporated solutions of conservation of water and mass at the surface, in the subsurface, and in the snowpack. Active layer thickness in the trough (i.e., above the ice wedge) was extracted from each simulation at the end of a 19 year spin-up, and at the end of a markedly warm summer which followed the spin-up. This archive includes mesh files, meteorological forcing data, and input files needed to reproduce the analysis described in the paper. Due to the large file sizes, raw model output has been omitted. However, post-processing scripts and time series of several variables extracted from the raw output have been included. All data are included in one zipped file with a user guide as a pdf. All simulations were conducted using Amanzi-ATS, v 0.86 (https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20190911.1).The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), was a research effort to reduce uncertainty in Earth System Models by developing a predictive understanding of carbon-rich Arctic ecosystems and feedbacks to climate. NGEE Arctic was supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research.The NGEE Arctic project had two field research sites: 1) located within the Arctic polygonal tundra coastal region on the Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO) and the North Slope near Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska and 2) multiple areas on the discontinuous permafrost region of the Seward Peninsula north of Nome, Alaska.Through observations, experiments, and synthesis with existing datasets, NGEE Arctic provided an enhanced knowledge base for multi-scale modeling and contributed to improved process representation at global pan-Arctic scales within the Department of Energy's Earth system Model (the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM), and specifically within the E3SM Land Model component (ELM).

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES↗
DOE OSTI2019

ICE Krome Service Processing Center Resilience Assessment

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Krome Service Processing Center near Miami, FL secured congressional appropriations to complete projects that will enhance resilience on the site, prompting a request for NREL to provide technical assistance in determining high priority projects. After a site visit and extensive analysis with REopt, recommendations to enhance resilience focused on the reconfiguration of electrical distribution infrastructure and the installation of a solar photovoltaic parking lot canopy. These recommendations improve on an existing microgrid setup with two diesel generators, which will be made more robust with the implementation of NREL's recommendations.

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY↗
DOE OSTI2013

Southeast Regional CO 2 Sequestration Technology Training Program (SECARB-Ed)

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies have tremendous potential for reducing carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions and mitigating global climate change. These technologies encourage economic growth and have manageable influence on energy use. Deploying these technologies on a commercial scale will require expanding the workforce, including geologists, engineers, scientists and technicians, trained in CCS specialties. In 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) selected seven projects to help develop regional sequestration technology training centers in the United States. The “Southeast Regional CO 2 Sequestration Technology Training Program” (SECARB-Ed) was managed and administered by the Southern States Energy Board (SSEB) from November 16, 2009, to November 15, 2012. During this performance period, the SECARB-Ed partners were successful in achieving their primary objective of developing a self-sustaining regional CO 2 sequestration training program to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technologies required for site development, operations and monitoring of commercial CCS projects. An experienced team of professionals participated in the SECARB-Ed program, with skills and competencies in geosciences, reservoir engineering and CCS related capture/separation, transportation, legal and regulatory disciplines. The SECARB-Ed Advisory Board included representatives from SSEB, Clemson University, GERALD R HILL PHD, Inc. (HILL), EnTech Strategies, LLC- Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS), Virginia Tech (VAT), Geological Survey of Alabama (GSA) at The University of Alabama and the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at The University of Texas at Austin. The program encompasses fifteen of SSEB’s member states, including: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The SECARB-Ed partners implemented an organized sponsorship development program, developed short courses on CCS technologies, participated in regional training and other activities through outreach and networking and performed internet-based and electronic regional/basin technology transfer services. The partners addressed the most promising sequestration options in the region; the mix of industry and power plant sources of CO 2 ; regional transportation infrastructure; and the legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks that exist in the southeast. As a result, SECARB-Ed fostered the development of a future workforce with disciplines specific to applied engineering and CCS science and technologies and advance the United States in its position as the leader in addressing climate change, near-zero emissions technologies and geologic sequestration technologies. The educational and training opportunities detailed in this Final Report demonstrate an effective means of disseminating a broad base of such knowledge and skills to a variety of students and professionals who are interested in the area of CCS technologies. The efforts of the SECARB-Ed Advisory Board and partners have resulted in a total of 1,951 professional development hours (PDHs) awarded to 1,131 participants.

Baskin, Kathryn A.↗