Environment

As a leading "green" university, UVM is proud to offer advanced environmental technologies such as a snowpack monitoring system for water resource planning and a low-cost phosphorus removal method for wastewater treatment.

Title	Inventors	Case #	Description	Podcasts
Ultrafine particle detectors allows in-situ engine exhaust monitoring	Frolik Holmen Barrett	389/402	Inexpensive detectors allow on-board monitoring of ultrafine exhaust particles that adversely affect human health. One configuration (389) also offers chemical analysis; a second configuration (402) offers greater portability and lower power requirements. (Also in Instrumentation)
Dairy by-product makes fungal pest management cost-effective	Costa	250	Sweet whey makes fungal control of environmental pests cost-effective by increasing the number of spores as much as 100-fold. (Also in Agriculture)
Electrostatic system provides accurate, reproducible exposure of cell cultures to aerosol particles	Petrucci	254	An electrostatic exposure chamber with flow controls deposits aerosol particules on cell cultures with 100 percent efficiency and no measurable damage. (Also in Instrumentation)
Wastewater treatment system offers effective, low-cost phosphorus removal	Drizo	252	An inexpensive wastewater treatment system removes up to 95 percent of phosphorus from effluent. (Also in Agriculture)
Microscopy system performs real-time particulate analysis	Yang	296	Microscopy system, based on a proprietary central core unit, detects, identifies, and characterizes particulate matter in real time. (Also in Instrumentation)
Snowpack monitoring system improves water resource planning	Skalka Frolik	366	Snowpack monitoring system uses small, wireless sensors and offers high spatial and temporal resolution, low cost, and resistance to local influences. (Also in Information Technology)
Mobile app supports expert avalanche risk assessment	Skalka	367	The Stabilitron, a software tool for mobile devices, brings expert-level avalanche decision support to researchers and recreational users. (Also in Instrumentation & Information Technology)
Ultrafine particle detector allows in-situ engine exhaust monitoring	Vize Casari	389	Small, low-cost detector can be installed in vehicles to quantify emissions of ultrafine particles in engine exhaust. (Also in Instrumentation)