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17 Sensor100 July 2015
Environment
Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X-PrizeWinners
Announced
The Prize was awarded for development of a precise and sustainable
system for ocean pH measurement. The winners were:
First Prize for Affordability and Accuracy : Sunburst Sensors, Missoula
MT USA, for a highly accurate colorimetric reagent method
Second Prize for Affordability :ANB Sensors , a partnership between
Schlumberger, Cambridge Microfab and Hull University, UK, for pHe-
nom, a voltammetric eelctrochemical sensor
Second Prize for Accuracy: Team Durafet, a partnership between
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Scripps Institution of Ocea-
nography, Sea-Bird Scientific/Satlantic and Honeywell, for a Ion Sensitive
Field Effect Transistor (ISFET)-based pH sensor
Sunburst Sensors received two $750,000 prizes forAffordability and Ac-
curacy; the two second prize winners each received $250,000.
Rice University awarded $1M grant from Keck Foun-
dation to engineer microbial biosensors for soil
The researchers are designing microbes to spy on
the behavior of other microbes in soil, and ‘blog’
about what they find by releasing a detectable gas.
Rice University 6 July 2015