Picarro Hero Award Winners will also to be featured in Booth #931

Santa Clara, CA — November 29, 2023 — Picarro Inc., a leading provider of gas concentration and stable isotope analyzers and systems for science and industrial applications, will once again be participating in the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. The AGU Fall Meeting is one of the world's largest scientific conferences and will be held 11-15 December 2023 in San Francisco, CA.

On the show floor in Booth #931, Picarro will feature three in-depth product demos. Picarro will preview the PI5310 mid-infrared (IR) cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) gas concentration analyzer. The PI5310 simultaneously measures nitrous oxide (N₂O) and carbon monoxide (CO) gas concentrations down to 20 parts per trillion, enabling high-precision N₂O quantification.

“Nitrous oxide is emitted from synthetic fertilizers, wastewater, and fossil fuels and is 300 times more potent at warming the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, making advancing nitrogen cycle research key to mitigating climate change,” said Joel Avrunin, Vice President, Environmental at Picarro. “With the addition of the PI5310 analyzer to our portfolio, Picarro is continuing its tradition of delivering the high-precision measurements of greenhouse gases needed for critical environmental research.”

Demos of the flagship Water Isotope Analysis System with the new Autosampler will also be available at AGU. The new peripheral offers new features that improve ease of use including a customizable tray that supports a variety of sample methods, a larger window that allows easier syringe access and accommodates most syringe sizes, and light and audio status indicators that make it easier to monitor project progress. For agriculture and soil scientists looking to measure δ¹³C in CO₂ and CH₄ simultaneously, the G2201-i integrated with the Eosense eosAC Multi-Species Soil Flux Chamber will be featured. The combination of these two instruments enables researchers to take precise measurements and quickly and easily process gas flux data.  

To close out our yearlong celebration of Picarro’s 25th anniversary, we’ll feature a video of our Picarro Hero Award finalists. The program was launched at last year’s AGU to recognize and promote the world-changing work of scientists who use Picarro analyzers. Booth visitors will learn which of their favorite scientists won. 

Picarro will also present and be featured in several poster sessions on a variety of topics:

Monday, 11 December 2023

• 08:30 - 12:50* — Assessing the Drivers of Microboring by Endolithic Cyanobacteria in Modern Carbonate Sediment
• 14:10 - 18:30 — Does CH₄-CO₂ Photochemistry Generate 12C-Enriched Organic Hazes in Archean Analog Atmospheres?

Tuesday, 12 December 2023

• 08:30 - 12:50 — Airborne Eddy Covariance for Estimating Regional Evapotranspiration Budgets
• 14:10 - 18:30 — Easier Analyzing of Stable Carbon Isotopes of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in Water Samples or Solid Carbonate Samples: New Picarro Caddy Continuous Flow Interface + AutoMate Prep Device Pairing presented by Picarro’s Juan Carlos Guerrero
• 14:10 - 18:30 — Using 13CO2-labeled Artificial Gas for Mid-Stratospheric Trace Gas Measurements from AirCore Samplers
• 16:20 - 16:30 — Measurement of Highly Resolved Formaldehyde Emissions and Exposure Risks in a Typical Single-Family Home of the United States presented by Picarro’s Dr. Karsten Baumann
• 16:30 - 16:40 — Ethylene Oxide at the Industrial Fenceline in Southeastern Louisiana: Spatially-Resolved Concentrations and Plume Measurements from Fast Time-Resolution Mobile Monitoring During HAP-MAP

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

• 11:14 - 11:26 — Quantifying the Emissions and Spatial/Temporal Distributions of Consumer Volatile Chemical Products (VCPs) in the Greater Houston Area
• 14:10 - 18:30 — Performance Evaluations of Picarro CRDS-Based Ethylene Oxide Monitoring Systems for Workplace and CEMS Applications presented by Picarro’s Dr. Gregor Lucic
• 14:10 - 18:30 — Comparison of Hailstone Growth Trajectories to Calculated Residence Times
• 16:40 - 16:50 — Exploring Methane Flux in Coastal Louisiana Wetlands from a Vegetative Point of View

Thursday, 14 December 2023

• 08:30 - 12:50 — Performance of the Picarro CRDS water Isotope Analyzer for Tracer Applications using Highly Enriched and Depleted δ2H samples presented by Picarro’s Dr. Joyeeta Bhattacharya
• 08:30 - 12:50 — Performance Evaluation of an Improved CRDS Ammonia (NH³) Analyzer  presented by Picarro’s Dr. Siqin He
• 08:30 - 12:50 — Advantages of Hourly Resolved Formaldehyde Measurements in Identifying Impacts from Wildfire Emissions, a Case Study - presented by Picarro’s Juan Carlos Guerrero

Friday, 15 December 2023

• 08:30 - 12:50 — Mobile Measurements and Chemical Composition of Emissions from Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in the Eagle Ford Shale
• 10:46 - 10:54 — Atmospheric Water Vapor Stable Isotopes Reveal Interactions Between the Large-Scale Advection and Local Evaporation at Nam Co Lake, the Southern Tibetan Plateau

*All times listed are PST

About Picarro
Picarro is a leading provider of solutions to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations, trace gases and stable isotopes across many scientific applications. Our portfolio of gas analyzers and systems enables scientists around the world to measure GHGs, trace gases and stable isotopes found in the air we breathe, water we drink and land we harvest. Picarro’s industrial solutions include mobile leak detection and emissions quantification technology used by public utilities and air quality monitoring solutions used in semiconductor fabrication and pharmaceutical manufacturing. Our patented Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) is at the heart of all Picarro instruments, enabling the detection of target molecules at parts-per-billion or better resolution.

For more information on Picarro’s gas concentration and Isotopic solutions, visit www.picarro.com.

Contact:
Jake Thill
Director, Marketing Communications
Picarro, Inc.
jthill@picarro.com