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Wyoming
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NSF and Wyoming
In FY 2002, NSF provided 49 awards totaling approximately $10 million to 7 institutions in Wyoming.
Institutions in Wyoming that received NSF support in FY 2000 include the University of Wyoming, Big Horn Valve, the Fremont County School District, Wyoming Sawmills, and Analogic Engineering, Inc.
PROJECTS CURRENTLY FUNDED BY NSF IN THE STATE OF WYOMING
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- Wyoming King Air — The King Air aircraft is a unique platform for observational science and education for the NSF supported scientific community and the geosciences community is general. The aircraft has been operated by the University of Wyoming as an NSF national facility since December 1987. It has flown on average five to six field programs per year. During its lifetime, the aircraft has flown over 3,000 research flight hours, of which about 1,800 have been devoted to NSF sponsored scientists. There is no current suitable alternative aircraft that could perform the same type of data collection for NSF sponsored research.
- Small Business Innovation Research — An NSF SBIR award to Industrial Alchemy addresses the urgent need to improve control of the blast chemical reaction. These blasts are produced by drilling boreholes into the overburden and filling them with an ammonium nitrate/fuel oil mixture. These explosive charges are then ignited to push the overburden into a previously excavated trench. This project will complete the design, fabrication, and testing of a prototype detonation system to be deployed in surface mining boreholes to preferentially initiate detonation of the powder column thus insuring a high efficiency blast without the unwanted release of toxic air pollutants.
- Thermodynamics of Fluid-Solid Equilibria in Solutions of Crystallizable Aromatic-Ring Containing Polymers — Crystallizable polymers can precipitate from solution in the form of a structure solid phase by cooling or compression. The overall goal of this University of Wyoming Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry research project is to understand the solid-phase behavior of crystallizable aromatic-ring containing polymers in compressible-fluid streams, such as near critical- and supercritical-fluid solutions. Such understanding is needed not only to develop new polymeric materials but also to develop new and improve existing manufacturing processes and to make them less energy intensive and more environmentally acceptable. For example, such understanding is needed to accomplish desirable phase transitions and to avoid undesirable phase transitions that cause fouling phenomena in pipelines, reactors, and separators.
- Greater Yellowstone Adventure — The Buffalo Bill Historical Center will develop the Greater Yellowstone Adventure project encompassing 1,719 square meters of exhibits in the Center's newly constructed Draper Museum of Natural History. The exhibits and associated programming constitute a major cultural and educational resource for underserved residents of rural, northwestern Wyoming and approximately 500,000 annual visitors to the region. The goal of Greater Yellowstone Adventure is to promote understanding of the relationships binding humans and nature and the use of science in exploring those relationships.
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