News By Location

5-May-2005

Earth lightens up

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Earth's surface has been getting brighter for more than a decade, a reversal from a dimming trend that may accelerate warming at the surface and unmask the full effect of greenhouse warming, according to an exhaustive new study of the solar energy that reaches land.

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Science

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DOE/US Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

29-Apr-2005

Environmental technologies earn award for PNNL

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Three water-related research developments have earned the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory a Technology Merit Award in the 2005 Business Achievement Awards competition sponsored by the Environmental Business Journal. The laboratory was recognized for an environmentally sensitive design for marine docks, a process for removing mercury from industrial wastes and a system that tracks the behavior and fate of migrating juvenile salmon.

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DOE/US Department of Energy, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Corps of Engineers

28-Apr-2005

Economic consequences of a radiological or nuclear attack

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Loss of lives, injuries and property destroyed during a nuclear or radiological attack have significant economic as well as personal consequences.

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Department of Homeland Security

Meeting

R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security

27-Apr-2005

Chemical signatures for bioforensics

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The scientific analysis of biological evidence isn't just determining what something is – it's also learning how and where it was developed.

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Department of Homeland Security

Meeting

R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security

13-Apr-2005

Corporate care for the community

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Managing a national laboratory extends beyond serving the scientific and technical needs of clients. It also means serving the needs of the local community. Since 1965, Battelle, which operates Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy, has contributed more than $13 million in charitable contributions to the communities in which PNNL staff live--Richland, Kennewick, Pasco, Seattle and Sequim, Wash.

13-Apr-2005

Partnering paves way for science solutions

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The word partnership conjures up the image of a couple--a couple of people, a couple of businesses, a couple of governments--coming together to work on a relationship, business venture or project. Many partnerships are still based on two. But that premise is rapidly changing--especially in science.

5-Apr-2005

Recycling a legacy of the Cold War

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The tons of surplus plutonium stockpiled in the United States and the former Soviet Union are no longer of interest to anyone...except perhaps terrorists. This realization led to an agreement between the United States and the Russian Federation to dispose of 35 metric tons of plutonium each by removing the plutonium "pits" from the nuclear weapons and turning them into nuclear power plant fuel.

5-Apr-2005

Seismic detectives go underground

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are using data gathered by seismology stations to develop a mathematical framework for identifying and locating seismological events around the world. Their work, part of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Ground Based Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Research and Engineering Program, will be used by the U.S. government to monitor explosions and weapons tests.

5-Apr-2005

Greater security with EM coil

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

An electromagnetic coil system developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory adds truth serum to treaty verification by narrowing the uncertainty for what's inside a sealed container.

5-Apr-2005

PNNL scientist just keeps on giving

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Aaron Diaz, a staff scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is the first PNNL staff member to win a Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award. Diaz also is awarded the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation's Homeland Security Award.