PNNL's Richard Moss to Help Guide New Phase of US National Climate Assessment
Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration opened a new chapter of the National Climate Assessment by announcing the appointment of new members to the Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment. Chairing this 15-member committee will be Richard Moss, a senior scientist with the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
U.S. Department of Energy Commits More Than $1.7 Million to Help Commercialize Promising Argonne-Associated Energy Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on Tuesday, June 21, announced that it is committing more than $1.7 million in funding to help Argonne National Laboratory and research partners move multiple promising energy technologies to the marketplace. News of the Argonne awards was part of a larger announcement by DOE that, through the first round of funding from its Technology Commercialization Fund , it will award nearly $16 million to support 54 projects at 12 national labs involving dozens of research partners.
PNNL to Lead Regional Smart Manufacturing Center
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been named to lead the Northwest Regional Manufacturing Center as part of the national Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute.
The Clean Dozen: 12 Techs Near Commercial Use
A dozen clean energy technologies that enable everything from lightweight, fuel-sipping cars to the expansion of renewable energy and cleaner fossil fuel use are getting a boost at PNNL, thanks to $4.4 million from DOE's Technology Commercialization Fund.
NERSC Readying for Cori Phase 2 Knights Landing-based System
For the past year, staff at the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have been preparing users of 20 leading science applications for the arrival of the second phase of its newest supercomputer, Cori, which consists of more than 9,300 nodes containing Intel's Xeon Phi Knights Landing processor - which was officially unveiled June 20 at the International Supercomputer Conference in Germany. The first compute cabinets are scheduled to arrive in July.
Scientists Seek New Physics Using ORNL's Intense Neutrino Source
Soon to be deployed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is an experiment to explore new physics associated with neutrinos.
PNNL Appoints Liyuan Liang Director of EMSL
World-class chemist Liyuan Liang of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been selected as the director of EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - a Department of Energy user facility on the campus of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Recognized for Its Green Programs
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has received two national awards for its green purchasing program, adding to a long list of honors for PPPL's environmental programs.
European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič to Visit Argonne National Laboratory
European Commission's Vice-President, Maroš Šefčovič, in charge of the Energy Union, will visit the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Ill. (USA) to learn more about Argonne's capabilities in areas such as energy storage and smart cities and expand upon already existing collaboration between DOE laboratories and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC).
Physicists Steven Sabbagh and Jack Berkery Receive 2016 Landau-Spitzer Award
Article describes winners of the 2016 Landau-Spitzer Award and the nature of their research.
PROSPECT Experiment's Search for Sterile Neutrinos Garners $3M DOE Grant
An experiment led by Yale University with partners from four U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories, including Brookhaven National Laboratory, and 10 universities will explore key questions about elusive particles called neutrinos with possible applications for improving nuclear reactor safety.
SLAC's New Computer Science Division Teams with Stanford to Tackle Data Onslaught
Alex Aiken, director of the new Computer Science Division at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has been thinking a great deal about the coming challenges of exascale computing, defined as a billion billion calculations per second. That's a thousand times faster than any computer today. Reaching this milestone is such a big challenge that it's expected to take until the mid-2020s and require entirely new approaches to programming, data management and analysis, and numerous other aspects of computing.
Argonne-Developed Technology for Achieving Superlubricity Wins 2016 Techconnect National Innovation Award
A Graphene-nanodiamond solution for achieving superlubricity that was developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has won a 2016 TechConnect National Innovation Award. TechConnect is a global innovation prospecting company, delivering the most promising technologies to the world's leading corporate, investment and government clients. Principal investigator and Argonne nanoscientist Ani Sumant accepted the award on May 22 at the TechConnect-National Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C. The technology received the award because it placed in the top 15% of all submitted technologies as ranked by the TechConnect Corporate & Investment Partner Committee.
Physicist Egemen Kolemen awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program
Physicist Egemen Kolemen, who has dual appointments at both Princeton University and PPPL, has been awarded funding from the DOE's Early Career Research Program. The grant, covering five years and totaling almost $850,000, will support research on how to monitor and control instabilities within fusion machines known as tokamaks.
New Argonne National Lab Program to Provide Entrepreneurs with Unparalleled Opportunity to Launch Clean Energy and Science-Based Ventures
To meet this challenge, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and Argonne National Laboratory announced today a new innovation accelerator program for science and energy entrepreneurs called Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI).
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Opening Chattanooga Office
The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will open an office at EPB headquarters in Chattanooga's Innovation District that will link local companies to the national laboratory's resources and expertise.
ORNL Exclusively Licenses Carbon Fiber Processing Inventions to RMX Technologies
RMX Technologies of Knoxville, Tenn., and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have signed an exclusive licensing agreement for a new technology that dramatically reduces the time and energy needed in the production of carbon fiber.
New Microbiome Center to Combine UChicago, Marine Biological Laboratory and Argonne Expertise
The University of Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory announced today a new partnership called The Microbiome Center that will combine the three institutions' efforts to understand the identity and function of microbes across environments.
Award Enables Research for More Efficient Accelerators
Jefferson Lab Staff Scientist Grigory Eremeev has just been awarded a five-year grant through DOE's Early Career Research Program to double the efficiency of some of the most efficient particle accelerators being used for research.
Energy Secretary Moniz Dedicates New Research Facility at Ames Laboratory
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz emphasized the role of materials research in clean energy innovation Friday May 6 at the dedication of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory Sensitive Instrument Facility.
Three PNNL Scientists Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards
Three scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been selected to receive 2016 Early Career Research Program research grants from the U.S. Department of Energy.
X-Ray Scientist Haidan Wen Wins DOE Early Career Award
X-ray physicist Haidan Wen of Argonne National Laboratory received a DOE Early Career Award, a prestigious research grant for $2.5 million over five years.
DOE's Office of Science Selects 49 Scientists to Receive Early Career Research Program Funding
The Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science has selected 49 scientists from across the nation - including 22 from DOE's national laboratories and 27 from U.S. universities - to receive significant funding for research as part of DOE's Early Career Research Program. The effort, now in its seventh year, is designed to bolster the nation's scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years, when many scientists do their most formative work.
SLAC Partners with Palo Alto Firm to Make Klystrons Much More Efficient
Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are working with a major manufacturer to make klystrons - big vacuum tubes that generate microwaves for accelerating particles - much more energy efficient.
Cyber Defense Competition 2016
Please join us for our inaugural Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition where teams of college students compete to design and defend a mock utility system (power plant) from attack.