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What is Beck (white shirt) and Paul Bunje, senior director of the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE (far right), meet with Weather Channel celebrities after UM and Sunburst’s big win. Beck went on the cruise that tested the tSAMI. He and DeGrandpre were not sure if they or their creation could take the pressure. “And on the fifth day of a six-day cruise, Mike sends me an email that says the reagent we use in our device has pressure sensitivity and that we need to correct for it,” Beck says. “I had already processed all this data, and I had to rewrite a bunch of code at the last minute to deal with this. We weren’t certain of our approach, but what we did must have worked.” When the tSAMI emerged from the ocean depths on its seventh deployment, Beck put his ear against it to hear the telltale click of a pump working. His heart lurched when all was silent, but when the instrument downloaded he knew things were OK ... and the XPRIZE was won. ••• DeGrandpre says a big chunk of the XPRIZE winnings will go to taxes. A portion also will go to employee bonuses and rewarding loyal business partners. And they will try to speed innovation of core Sunburst products. Improving the Sunburst facilities or adding employees are other options. “The iSAMI we entered in the XPRIZE competition was a prototype,” Beck says. “Now it’s time to turn it into real products that we can get into the hands of the scientific community. We’ve had a lot of interest.” UM held a campus event in summer 2015 to celebrate Sunburst and the big XPRIZE win. “To have a team from our University and our community win an XPRIZE is something I don’t think will happen too often at the University of Montana or any other university,” President Royce Engstrom said before leading the gathered dignitaries in a toast. “So this is a very special day for us to recognize the hard work, the creativity and just the tremendous expertise of our team from Sunburst.” Then-Lt. Gov. Angela McLean, a former high school teacher, represented the state of Montana at the event. “It’s not lost on me that the two [Sunburst] leaders hail from Capital High School in Helena, Montana,” she exclaimed. “Public school kids! It doesn’t get any better than that.” V Ocean Acidification? At least a quarter of the carbon dioxide released by the burning of fossil fuels dissolves in Earth’s oceans and lakes. Over time this has lowered the pH of the oceans and made them more acidic. To achieve chemical equilibrium, CO2 reacts with water to form carbonic acid. In the past 200 years, the ocean has become 30 percent more acidic, which is faster than any known change in ocean chemistry in the past 50 million years. This rapid change doesn’t give ocean life much time to adapt, and scientists worry about major negative impacts to ocean ecosystems. The shells of some animals already are starting to dissolve in more acidic seawater. “We used to think the ocean had infinite capacity to accept abuse,” says Paul Bunje, the senior director of the ocean health XPRIZE competition. “We now know that isn’t true. Down the road I would like us to do an ocean pH forecast, much the way we do a weather forecast.” The latest XPRIZE produced better instruments to help scientists more accurately measure and understand ocean acidification. Vision 2016 13 For more information email michael.degrandpre@umontana.edu or jim@sunburstsensors.com. Breanna Roy photoPDF Image | Carbon Vision 2016
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