PNNL study explored multiple factors that could impact future snowpack—a critical source of water for communities, irrigation and energy generation.

Studying how microorganisms behave in space could facilitate farming in the final frontier and lead to better crops on Earth.

COMPASS points to understanding nature’s transition zones—areas that can be dry land at times and under water at others.

Understanding the Earth as a complex, dynamic system includes investigating what happens on, above and below its surface.