User Program

EMSL is one of the 28 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facilities. EMSL is housed on the campus of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program supports EMSL and several other user facilities who are conducting research related to the fundamental understanding and prediction of complex biological, Earth, and environmental systems for energy and infrastructure security. 

As a user facility, EMSL provides shared laboratory resources, instrumentation, and expertise to the scientific community. Access to EMSL is determined by a competitive peer-review process. User facilities are open to all potential users without regard to nationality or institutional affiliation.