News By Location

2-Dec-2005

Cyber security

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Do you worry about the security of your credit card when you buy something over the Internet? Or when you pay your bills electronically? What about business trade secrets communicated by email from engineering to manufacturing staff or sensitive data stored on local hard drives? Computer scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are using a systems approach combined with a multidisciplinary team of experts to address cyber security issues such as these.

15-Nov-2005

Grid bridges 4,800 miles for molecular repositories

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Business Announcement

In a bid to facilitate collaboration among other biomolecular researchers, the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has become the first institution outside the United Kingdom to join the Biological Simulation Grid Consortium of Great Britain.

13-Oct-2005

Wetness-defying water?

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The textbooks say that water readily comes together with other water, open arms of hydrogen clasping oxygen attached to other OH molecules. This is the very definition of "wetness." But scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., have observed a first: a single layer of water -- ice grown on a platinum wafer -- that gives the cold shoulder to subsequent layers of ice that come into contact with it.

Journal

Physical Review Letters

Funder

DOE/US Department of Energy

6-Oct-2005

Air quality in West going south

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

By mid-century, air quality throughout the Western United States will deteriorate, according to a new EPA-funded computer simulation by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Journal

Geophysical Research Letters

Funder

US Environmental Protection Agency

Meeting

Climate Science in Support of Decision Making

4-Oct-2005

Groundwater sampling goes tubular

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Hydrologists from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are using a simple apparatus of ¼-inch-diameter plastic tubing to collect samples at varying levels in the aquifer along the river's edge. Though a permanent installation, the low-cost, lightweight materials are easy to camouflage with indigenous rocks and vegetation so that the collection site appears undisturbed. Hydrologists compare the aquifer tube method to sipping groundwater through a long straw.

Funder

DOE/US Department of Energy

4-Oct-2005

Ecologists spawn new use for PIT tags

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Fishing for a way to assess mixing behavior in treatment tanks for radioactive waste, ecologists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory turned to radio frequency technology previously used to track migrating fish. Thousands of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags were added to a clay simulant and whipped around in tests of mixer equipment in large test tanks and scaled prototypes. This novel application of the PIT tags provided a means of assessing fluid motion without sampling.

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DOE/US Department of Energy

16-Sep-2005

Less is more: No-till agriculture helps mitigate global warming

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Using research, technology and tractors, farmers around the world are plotting and carrying out a small revolution-a revolution that has the potential to transform agriculture and use it as a tool to mitigate global warming.

16-Sep-2005

Practical climate financing — Using markets to drive cleaner energy production

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Every day, people in China get sick just from breathing the air. Many die prematurely. In economic terms, pollution costs China eight to ten percent of gross domestic product in lost productivity, according to World Bank estimates. Air pollution accounts for three-quarters of that productivity loss.

16-Sep-2005

Expecting the unexpected

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Discovering unexpected impacts from climate change is something researcher Ruby Leung is getting used to.

16-Sep-2005

Going where no facility has gone before

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

A data acquisition system is being sent to Niger next year to collect climate information in this data-sparse region as part of a new user facility established by the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, ARM.