High Mountain Asia’s (HMA) water resources are subject to changes and imbalances as climate change progresses. Research studies focused on High Mountain Asia are often either coarse large-scale studies or small-scale case studies that do not allow regional officials to make informed, actionable decisions within their spheres of influence. Previous work by Immerzeel and others in 2020...
The abundances of volatile elements like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen (CNO) bridge the gap between protoplanetary disk chemistry, stellar composition, and planetary formation, accretion, and migration mechanisms. CNO abundances can trace a planet’s formation location relative to H$_2$O, CO$_2$, CO, and N$_2$ “snowlines”, or the distance from the star at which these volatile elements sublimate....
We present work towards new methods for precision $e^+$ & $e^-$ luminosity at future Higgs factories. The standard method of using Bhabha scattering ($ee\to ee$) is reviewed. An alternative channel of DiGammas ($ee\to\gamma\gamma$) is presented. A new method, dubbed ''3Beam'', is presented for the first time. 3Beam uses a third beam, comprised of photons, to precisely measure the $e$ &...
Political polling has long been seen as the cornerstone of election prediction, gauging public interest or apathy towards a given candidate and inspiring fear or complacency in incumbents nationwide. But polling in US elections can be far from accurate, and indeed the efficacy of political polling has been under heavy scrutiny since the 2016 election that saw Donald Trump swept into the...
Waste materials are ontologically inseparable from the context of their production. While much early food waste research has focused on quantification and consumer psychology, researchers in a range of disciplines would now benefit from alternate frameworks in which to spatialize the chimerical matter of food waste. To suggest generative paths for the future of food waste research, this study...
Submarine melting of icebergs are a large source of freshwater within Greenland fjord systems. This input of freshwater can alter the ocean heat flux near marine terminating glaciers, impacting ice-ocean exchanges at the glacier front. A sikkusak might promote heat transfer by enhancing fjord circulation, yet act as a heat sink from an increase in iceberg melt production. Traditional modeling...
We present a millimeter spectral analysis of a star forming region in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Galactic center. Cloud C (G0.380+0.050), located in the dust ridge, is one of the only hot cores in the Galactic center other than Sgr B2, a cloud that is known to be one of the most chemically rich sites for massive star formation in the Galaxy. We observed the J=1-0 transitions of...
Memristors – a novel addition to the classical circuit elements of resistors, capacitors, and inductors – exhibit the ability to switch between low and high resistance states. This transition is made possible by forming and rupturing conductive filaments made of oxygen vacancy defects (VO) within the memristor. Recent research has focused on scaling memristor dimensions down to the...
This study investigates how the urban Rarámuri community in Chihuahua, Mexico, leverages digital storytelling to recontextualize elder knowledge for the younger generation. Through workshops, it enables youth to express ancestral wisdom in contemporary urban settings, fostering a dynamic cultural identity. This approach highlights the adaptability of traditional narratives via digital media,...
The Himalayan mountains of Nepal comprise the highest elevations, deepest river gorges, and greatest topographic relief on Earth. Contributing to this extraordinary landscape are some of the world’s highest rock uplift rates and largest river systems. This research focuses on investigating the vertical incision of the Kali Gandaki River in Central Nepal to elucidate the spatial and temporal...
There are thousands of identified gamma-ray sources in our Milky Way. Many of these sources have been studied using the Fermi-LAT satellite, which is sensitive to photons in the energy range between 20 MeV and 300 GeV. Among the gamma-ray excesses detected with the Fermi-LAT, there are candidates that no one has observed before, which are designated unassociated. This study uses data from the...
Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) are the promising spintronics devices for data storage, which have potential applications in the development of novel magnetic random access memories(mRAM). Here we studied magnetic tunnel junctions with 2D magnets CrOCl and CrSBr as the tunneling material, which are well-known magnets at low temperature. Here, we discuss tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) ...
By maintaining magnetic order down to the single atomic layer limit, two-dimensional magnets (2D magnets) significantly broadened modern understanding of magnetism and revived interest in 2D materials for industrial applications. In particular, 2D magnets can serve as building blocks for emerging spintronics devices. The main limitation in large-scale applications of 2D magnets is that typical...
Ultrathin (1-4 nm) films of wide-bandgap semiconductors play a vital role in numerous microelectronics application. However, the properties of these films can be significantly influenced by defects, particularly those originating from the interface between the substrate and the film. Motivated by this, an in vacuo atomic layer deposition (ALD) was developed for synthesis of ultra-thin...
We present an initial analysis of emission from vibrationally excited molecules of cyanoacetylene (HC3N) in the NGC 253 starburst nucleus. As one of the nearest examples of a nuclear starburst ($D=3.5$ Mpc), the NGC 253 nucleus is a prime candidate for a detailed study of the physical conditions of an extreme star formation environment. The majority of the star formation activity in the...
Most massive galaxies host a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in their center. However, it remains a subject of debate how these SMBHs reached their current sizes. The standard model of growth for the most massive SMBHs is that they reached their current sizes through mergers of massive, gas-rich galaxies. However, studies which seek to test this theory have yielded mixed results. Examining the...
The state of Kansas has recently experienced an unprecedented increase in seismic activity that has been linked to high-rate wastewater injections. CO2 sequestration has growing interest as a strategy to mitigate climate change, but large-scale CO2 injections may induce seismicity. The National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP) has established that local earthquake monitoring networks must be...
