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Excellence in Science & Technology

Understanding Multiscale Earth
System Processes and Dynamics

2025 Vision: The Laboratory's advanced simulation tools now equip decision-makers to
foresee and prepare for major environmental changes, and to avoid their worst impacts.
PNNL researchers have achieved an integrated modeling framework capturing complex
Earth systems as an integrated continuum, from molecular to global scales.

Goals PNNL’s Marine Sciences Laboratory,
located in Sequim, WA is a critical
• Develop a holistic, integrated research frame- asset in research on the role of
work to measure, test, and model ecosystem terrestrial-aquatic ecosystems in
processes across the atmosphere-land-water Earth system dynamics.
continuum, with particular emphasis on
terrestrial-aquatic interfaces “As an established global leader in Earth system
science, PNNL is now leading the community
• Establish The System for Terrestrial-Aquatic into the new frontier of terrestrial-aquatic
Research, a distributed observation and ecosystems. Through our internal investments
analytics network with integrated computa- in initiatives like Predicting Ecosystem Resil-
tional tools, enabling validation of predictive ience through Multiscale Integrative Science
Earth system models in real time and with those of key sponsors in DOE’s Office
of Biological and Environmental Research,
• Build a Coastal Observation & Research PNNL is pursuing an ambitious research
Partnership in collaboration with key program to unravel key mysteries of the Earth
research institutions, creating a testbed system, and include our research findings in
for technologies and data systems for highly sophisticated models leveraging the full
measuring stresses and responses on potential of high-performance computers.”
terrestrial-aquatic ecosystems

Research Partners

Allison Campbell
Steward

Charlette Geffen
Science Lead

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