Papers by Jeffrey Marqusee
Department of Energy (DOE) reports produced after 1991 and a growing number of pre-1991 documents... more Department of Energy (DOE) reports produced after 1991 and a growing number of pre-1991 documents are available free via www.OSTI.gov.
The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Environmental Securi... more The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) are DoD research programs that share the mission of developing and demonstrating advanced technologies applicable to DoD environmental challenges. In the area of munitions response, the programs are largely concentrated on the application of geophysics to the detection and characterization of buried munitions.
Higgins and Hyoung-Sun Youn, were invaluable and extraordinarily assiduous in everything from des... more Higgins and Hyoung-Sun Youn, were invaluable and extraordinarily assiduous in everything from design and construction of equipment to modeling, execution of fieldwork, and processing and interpretation. All of us benefited from proximity of the deep wisdom as well as the occasional direct guidance of Professor Leon Peters, Jr., now retired from the OSU-ESL and widely acknowledged as one of the Fathers of GPR. Computational and modeling work in support of the data processing and interpretation was also provided by Professor Robert Lee of the OSU Department of Electrical Engineering and by his students, including Kishore Rama Rao and Kwan-Ho Lee. Dr. Fridon Shubitidze of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth also performed modeling work, and participated in the execution of some fieldwork as well. This diverse, talented, and dedicated team merits heartfelt thanks for contributing in such an exemplary manner to the successful execution of the project.
This is a report of a workshop sponsored by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development ... more This is a report of a workshop sponsored by the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). The workshop explored information needs and sources for planning resilient infrastructure and installations when historical climate records indicate statistical patterns of extreme or average conditions are changing (i.e., when they are "nonstationary") and no longer provide a reliable guide to planning for the future. The workshop brought together practitioners from planning, engineering, and architectural communities; members of the science community conducting research on Earth systems, environmental change, and risk assessment and communication; and operations and real property managers. Practitioners at the workshop highlighted the need for information that (1) focuses on a wide range of hazards and thresholds; (2) provides most likely conditions and maximum credible extremes for a number of periods and mean recurrence intervals; (3) analyzes historical and projected conditions at high temporal and spatial resolution for specific sites; and (4) considers information requirements by discipline and location. The workshop identified ideas for SERDP/ESTCP initiatives to support the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and advance research and practice more generally. The ideas span the spectrum from applications to basic research and have the potential to accelerate near-term availability of information for practitioners as well as to improve basic knowledge of relevant environmental change processes.
OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), May 26, 2020
Backup power systems on military installations must provide reliable power during a grid outage. ... more Backup power systems on military installations must provide reliable power during a grid outage. The risks of blackouts and loss of electric power are not new. Outages of just a few hours are well known, but longer duration outages are becoming more frequent. The U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force now require backup power from one to two weeks. For multiday outages, the reliability of emergency diesel generators will have a significant impact on the installation's backup power system's ability to provide power for critical missions.
As Congress contemplates whether to enact a Green New Deal and other measures to combat climate c... more As Congress contemplates whether to enact a Green New Deal and other measures to combat climate change, it should also seek to make the most of existing federal energy investments. While the Department of Energy (DOE) deserves the spotlight, the Department of Defense (DOD), which invests about $1.6 billion in energy science and technology each year, should not be overlooked. As Dorothy Robyn and Jeffrey Marqusee write for RealClearEnergy, many key technologies for the civilian energy sector, including solar power, batteries, microgrids, and even nuclear power, could be advanced if DOD and DOE collaborated more effectively.
Applied Energy, 2021
Microgrids are an emerging alternative as an energy backup system for critical electric loads and... more Microgrids are an emerging alternative as an energy backup system for critical electric loads and have improved performance compared to the traditional architecture where a single emergency diesel generator is tied to an individual building. Both architectures are dependent on the reliability of their individual generators and a quantitative and realistic comparison of the overall system reliability of the two architectures is lacking. Using recently published work on emergency diesel generator finite reliability, a quantitative methodology is presented to compare the reliability of a microgrid architecture based on centralized emergency diesel generators to the traditional approach of generators tied to individual buildings. Three system reliability performance metrics are calculated as a function of outage duration: (1) probability to meet 100% of the critical load; (2) expected fraction of lost load; and (3) probability to meet the highest priority critical loads. It is shown tha...
Advances in Applied Energy
Dissent, 2016
What will it take to stop and reverse climate change? On the left, we emphasize actions by ordina... more What will it take to stop and reverse climate change? On the left, we emphasize actions by ordinary citizens whose protests, educational work, and organizing seek to compel governing and economic elites to do the right thing for the rest of us. But not every powerful institution is resisting the truth about the damage being done to the planet. Surprisingly perhaps, the U.S. military has proven itself more open to addressing the climate crisis than Republican politicians who swear over and over again that the men and women who serve in uniform can do no wrong. Jeffrey Marqusee, the former executive director of the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program and a fellow leftist, discusses the Pentagon’s views on climate change and what it has done to mitigate it.
Environmental science & technology, 2003
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 1984
The theory of late stage phase separation in two dimensions is presented. The asymptotic distribu... more The theory of late stage phase separation in two dimensions is presented. The asymptotic distribution function for droplet sizes and associated temporal power laws are derived for the case where the condensation–evaporation mechanism for growth is dominant. The average radius is shown to grow as t1/3 and the density of droplets decays as t−2/3. The effect of competition between droplets is included and shown to increase the coarsening rate. The distribution function and growth rate broaden and increase, respectively, as the equilibrium area fraction of the minority phase is increased.
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 1981
ABSTRACT The end-to-end distance of a flexible polymer in a theta solvent in two dimensions is in... more ABSTRACT The end-to-end distance of a flexible polymer in a theta solvent in two dimensions is investigated. A mean field theory is presented which predicts significant deviations from ideal behavior at the theta point. A real space renormalization group approach is employed to investigate further the behavior of the polymer’s end-to-end distance at the theta point and to elucidate the analogy with thermodynamic tricritical behavior. Our results suggest that the correct result may be numerically closer to the mean prediction than to the values obtained from second order &egr; = (3−d) expansions of field theory models of critical phenomena.
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 1981
ABSTRACT Dynamic scaling relations are presented for the diffusion coefficient and intrinsic visc... more ABSTRACT Dynamic scaling relations are presented for the diffusion coefficient and intrinsic viscosity for dilute polymer solutions in d dimensions. The functional integration description of Adler and Freed is used with the correct d-dimensional hydrodynamic interaction and assumptions of power law dependence to obtain the scaling relations. Recursion relations for the exponents are determined in the asymptotic region of large N by an interdimensional scaling argument.
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 1980
The first order concentration dependence of the self-diffusion coefficient for macro-particles in... more The first order concentration dependence of the self-diffusion coefficient for macro-particles in solution is calculated. The role of direct interactions in determining the concentration dependence is considered. (AIP)
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