Johns Hopkins University

Nicholas H Evancich

Michael P McLoughlin

Micah A Carlson

Wayne A Bryden

Timothy J Cornish

Charles W Kerechanin, Ii

Scott A Ecelberger

Charles W Anderson

William R Allmon

Edward P Rhyne

Keith A Soldavin

James T Velky

Marshall J Jose

Daniel J DeCicco

Henry A Kues, Jr

Eric J Van Gieson

Gerad D House

A monitoring system and method for detecting environmental conditions is provided, the monitoring system including a sensing unit including a plurality of sensors for obtaining data related to environmental conditions, a controller interfaced with the sensing unit for receiving and encoding the data related to environmental conditions into a predetermined format using a base64 encoding scheme, and a communication device for receiving the data in the predetermined format from the controller, forming an e-mail message (which can be further encoded) including instructions on how to decode the email message and transmitting the e-mail message including the data in the predetermined format to at least one predetermined recipient.

System and method for monitoring environmental conditions

A field portable mass spectrometer system comprising a sample collector and a sample transporter. The sample transporter interfaces with the sample collector to receive sample deposits thereon. The system further comprises a time of flight (TOF) mass spectrometer. The time of flight mass spectrometer has a sealable opening that receives the sample transported via the sample transporter in an extraction region of the mass spectrometer. The system further comprises a control unit that processes a time series output by the mass spectrometer for a received sample and identifies one or more agents contained in the sample.

Portable time-of-flight mass spectrometer system

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Columbia, MD, United States of America

Nicholas H Evancich