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As a scientific user facility, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) provides expertise, instrumentation, and resources to 250 projects each year. 

EMSL projects displayed on the EMSL web site project page reflect project abstracts and information migrated to this page before April 30, 2024. To review current and past EMSL user projects, visit EMSL Science Central.™ 

 

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Benchmarking Climate and Waether Modeling Codes on the PNNL Cluster.(emsl2642)

Lead Institution
Hewlett-Packard Company
Principal Investigator
Loganathan (logan) Sankaran
Project type
Exploratory Research
Early indications of benchmarking several Weather and Climate modeling codes on Itanium2 serevrs are very encouraging. However, for any meaningful simulations of many large weather problems, we need…

Benchmarking Climate and Waether Modeling Codes on the PNNL Cluster.(emsl2642)

Lead Institution
Hewlett-Packard Company
Principal Investigator
Loganathan (logan) Sankaran
Project type
Exploratory Research
Early indications of benchmarking several Weather and Climate modeling codes on Itanium2 serevrs are very encouraging. However, for any meaningful simulations of many large weather problems, we need…

Structural Characterizations of Biogenic Germanium Oxide Nanospheres

Lead Institution
Oregon State University
Principal Investigator
Chih-hung Chang
Project type
Exploratory Research
Background Marine organisms are inspirational sources of nanomaterials. It is well known that many marine organisms intricately incorporate inorganic elements such as calcium and silicon into…

Benchmarking of IA-64 (EMSL2648)

Lead Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Harvey Wasserman
Project type
Exploratory Research
To determine performance of IA-64 systems on codes of interest to Los Alamos and DOE.

GLAD coating microstructure

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Dean Matson
Project type
Exploratory Research
The objective of the proposed project is to study unique microstructure of sputtered and evaporated coatings produced using glancing angle deposition (GLAD) methods. This will be accomplished using…

Determination of the Bonding of Various Surfactants onto ZrW2O8

Lead Institution
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Principal Investigator
Eric Swanson
Project type
Exploratory Research
My graduate research involves adsorbing fatty acids and alkyl silanes onto ZrW2O8 powders. While there is some evidence through infrared spectroscopy that chemisorption of surfactants to the…

Purity Analysis of Synthetic Organic Compounds

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Garry Buchko
Project type
Exploratory Research
NMR spectrometer time is requested for Dr. Garry W. Buchko (EMSL) to analyze occasional organic samples for Drs. Scott Harvey and Bob Wright. These latter NSD staff (PNNL) are both analytical…

Detailed Characterization of Arsenic Adsorptive Media

Lead Institution
Battelle Columbus
Principal Investigator
Daniel Kremser
Project type
Exploratory Research
Adsorptive media are being evaluated and demonstrated by the U.S.EPA for their effectiveness for arsenic removal from small drinking water supplies. Data collected from an EPA-funded, multi-column…

Accelerated Fuel-Cladding Interaction Study using Surrogate Materials

Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Charles Henager
Project type
Exploratory Research
A Lab-level LDRD study on acceleration of fuel-cladding science is developing a miniature specimen test capability using HT-9 cladding material and ZrO2 with and without Ga doping as nuclear fuel…