{"id":335,"date":"2008-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-142\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:29:54","slug":"innovation-anthology-142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2008\/06\/12\/innovation-anthology-142\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #142:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 142.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nTracing the source of <b>pollution<\/b> is sometimes a tricky business.  But University of Calgary researcher <b>Dr. Bernhard Mayer <\/b>has developed a new technique that will make this search much easier.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called <b>isotopic fingerprinting,<\/b>and it helps distinguish between natural and manmade sources of chemicals.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nDR. BERNHARD MAYER:<\/b><em>  Well these are natural abundance fingerprints. So all we need to do is bring samples into the laboratory.  We need to convert the samples into gases and then do what we call isotope ratio measurements with mass spectrometers.   <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\nAs Dr. Mayer explains, major environmental concerns are with water, carbon, nitrogen, and sulphur.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nDR. BERNHARD MAYER: <\/b><em>These isotopic traces allow us to distinguish water sources.  Whether the water which is running in our rivers is  from snow melt, whether its from ground water,  whether its from summer precipitation.  So it allows us to better understand the water resources in the province.   If you talk about the carbon, nitrogen, sulphur cycle, the benefit is that we often distinguish anthropogenic effects from natural sources of these elements in the environment .  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDr. Bernhard Mayer was named a finalist in the <em>Research and Innovation<\/em> category at the <b>2008 Emerald Awards for Environmental Excellence.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY <br \/>\nI&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02008-06-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracing the source of pollution is sometimes a tricky business.  But University of Calgary researcher<b> Dr. Bernhard Mayer<\/b> has developed a new technique that will make this search much easier.  It\u2019s called isotopic fingerprinting, and it helps distinguish between natural and manmade sources of chemicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-technology","category-water","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/142bernhard_mayer.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4458,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/4458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}