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DOWNLOADNo greater challenge faces our planet right now than determining conclusively how we are impacting the environment and what can be done to arrest and reverse global warming. One important method for measuring the rising level of CO2 in earth’s atmosphere is to
look back through time by measuring the amount of CO2 locked in Antarctic ice. To deepen our understanding, Stanford researcher David Mucciarone spends two months in the Antarctic every year measuring the breakdown of inorganic carbon in both sea and ice to learn how much carbon dioxide the ocean can effectively digest.
Mucciarone uses a device called a carbon analyzer to measure the carbon locked into the ice and ocean water. This device requires precise measurement and control of sample flows in order to be effective.
SIERRA'S SOLUTION
With just days left before Stanford researcher David Mucciarone was to leave for Antarctica, the mass flow controller in his carbon analyzer failed.
