A GML team, Continuous Light Absorption Photometer

Betsy Andrews, Derek Hageman, and Anne Jefferson, CIRES scientists in ESRL’s Global Monitoring Division (now Global Monitoring Laboratory), collaborated with NOAA colleagues on the design of a new instrument, the Continuous Light Absorption Photometer (CLAP), which was optimized for making long-term, research-quality measurements based on experience gained from years of operating commercial instruments continuously at field sites and intermittently in laboratory studies. They are recipients of a NOAA Technology Transfer Award, which recognizes NOAA scientific, engineering, and technical employees for achievements that are developed further as commercial applications, or that advance the transfer of NOAA science and technology to U.S. businesses, academia, other government, and non-government entities.