STEM Outreach Program: Design of a Passive Water Sampler to Test Dive Sites Suspected to be Contaminated
Abstract
This project involves the design and field testing of a device that will take a sample of water at a dive site. The device will be designed and built by undergraduate students to take a sample throughout the entire vertical water column of the dive site. The project also involves an outreach component to provide prototypes to local high school students so that they can use the devices as part of a science project.Chemical and biological testing will be performed, thereby also testing the ease of use of the design. Duke University is an internationally renowned academic institution. Dr. Moon has 15 years of experience performing government-funded experiments as a tenured professor through the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine & Environmental Physiology. Dr. Lance is a research scientist with the Department of Biomedical Engineering who has been working in the field of military diving for 10 years, both as a design engineer and a scientific researcher. The Center for Hyperbaric Medicine has a dedicated accountant who supervises the expenditures for each project, as well as falling under the jurisdiction of the Department of Anesthesiology, which has its own accounting staff. All of the operational controls and technical skills necessary to support this project are already in place and listed on this proposal.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 23, 2019
- Source ID
- N000141912369
Entities
People
- Richard E Moon
Organizations
- Duke University
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy