Aquatic Research Laboratory

Specialized facilities are essential to the advancement of PNNL’s sponsored research programs and LDRD-funded projects.

Unique facilities at PNNL, including dedicated laboratories for power grid operations, marine sciences, data analytics, and atmospheric sciences, equip researchers to take on some of the most challenging questions, and expand the frontiers of scientific understanding and technological possibility.

In addition to more than two dozen state-of-the-art facilities supporting the laboratory’s missions in scientific discovery, energy resiliency, and national security, PNNL is the steward of two U.S. Department of Energy national scientific user facilities, ARM and EMSL, serving more than 2,000 researchers worldwide each year.

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Aquatic Research Laboratory

At the Aquatic Research Laboratory, PNNL scientists explore solutions for our nation’s growing need for clean, renewable energy. Projects are focused on monitoring and predicting the impacts of hydropower development and operation on water.

Carbon Capture Laboratory

Using specialized equipment, PNNL's multidisciplinary researchers are making fundamental discoveries and transforming them into solutions to capture carbon dioxide before it enters the atmosphere.

Carbon Mineralization Laboratories

The carbon mineralization laboratories and capabilities at PNNL-Richland help accelerate commercial-scale deployment of geologic carbon dioxide storage coupled with critical mineral recovery and other frontier low-carbon technologies.

Energy Earthshot Research Centers

PNNL leads two of DOE's multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary EERCs: the Center for Understanding Subsurface Signals and Permeability (CUSSP) and Addressing Challenges in Energy: Floating Wind in a Changing Climate (ACE-FWICC).

Marine Test Sites

PNNL has federal authorizations and permits for research activities at two locations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. These sites offer a range of research conditions.