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Interns contributed to aerosol modeling research to better understand airborne virus
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When Cathrine Hamilton and Alison Robey, fall interns at the U.S. Department of Energy s Brookhaven National Laboratory, first signed on to collaborate with their mentor Laura Fierce, an associate scientist in the Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, they didn t imagine they would be contributing to widespread research tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.
Instead of collaborating on climate models, the interns supported the development of simulations in order to study the probability of infection by tiny virus particles traveling in the air.
The research, which is among several COVID-19-focused efforts at Brookhaven Lab, aims to connect the tools of mathematical modeling with aerosol expertise and the expanding body of coronavirus literature. The goal is to provide more accurate insights on the effects of particle size, evolution, and behavior on the chan
Brookhaven Intern Caroline Sears Analyzes Nuclear Fission Yields
The Smith College undergraduate is investigating what happens when the nucleus of an atom is split reaction dynamics that are relevant to designing and operating nuclear reactors
Caroline Sears, a rising junior at Smith College in Massachusetts, is completing a remote internship at Brookhaven Lab s National Nuclear Data Center.
A chart of fission fragment yields of U-235. The colors correspond to how often the particular fission product is produced. From the NuDat database on the NNDC website (the website version is interactive: https://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nudat2/reColor.jsp?newColor=235ufy).
A simplified graph plotting the yield of the silver-113 (Ag-113) fission fragment of U-238 over a range of neutron energies. The lines and curves running through the data points correspond to different regression techniques: the teal curve fits the data to a parabola; the purple line fits the data to a line; and the dotted black