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Using EMSL Capabilities to Advance Your Research

Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 5:00 pm, Room 114

EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, is a Department of Energy user facility. EMSL's vision is to pioneer discoveries and effectively mobilize the scientific community to provide the molecular science foundation for the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research research priorities and our nation's critical biological, environmental and energy challenges. To accomplish this vision, EMSL science is focused in four areas: biosystem dynamics and design, atmospheric aerosol systems, terrestrial and subsurface ecosystems and energy materials and processes. Processes that occur at surfaces and interfaces are critical in each of these areas and EMSL provides a wide range of unique and state-of-the-art spectroscopy, microscopy, magnetic resonance and computational capabilities to advance the relevant sciences (www.emsl.pnnl.gov ).

Scientific discovery and technological innovation in environmental molecular sciences are facilitate by EMSL's integrated set of experimental and computational resources. Researchers are invited to apply for the opportunity to collaborate with recognized experts and use state-of-the-art instruments and facilities. Researchers use resources at EMSL for little or not cost if results are shared in open literature. The primary mode for obtaining access to EMSL is through an annual call for proposals oriented around specific topics identified with each science theme. This call appears in late December, Four-page proposals are due in March. As a multi-capability facility, we seek proposal that combine scientific innovation through instrument integration combining computational and experimental approaches for discovery. Increasingly we are developing and using capabilities that enable real-time in situ measurements in a variety of environments.