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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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Applied Subsurface Science and Characterization Laboratory

State-of-the-art instrumentation and analytical techniques enable characterization of the critical properties of sediment and rock that control the subsurface movement and reactions of chemicals, water, and gases.

Aquatic Research Lab

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.

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Aquatics Research Laboratories at PNNL-Sequim

The Aquatic Research Laboratories at the Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim enables research on chemical, biological, or physical components and processes under controlled conditions.

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Atmospheric Measurements Laboratory

The Atmospheric Measurements Laboratory at PNNL is one of the nation's leading research facilities for understanding aerosols, clouds, and their interactions.

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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is a key contributor to national and international atmospheric and climate research efforts.

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Battery Reliability Test Laboratory

The Battery Reliability Test Laboratory at PNNL is a world class battery testing facility that has been established to accelerate the development of grid energy storage technologies that will help modernize the power grid.

Bio-Acoustics & Flow Lab

Bio-Acoustics and Flow Laboratory

At PNNL’s Bio-Acoustics and Flow Laboratory, scientists explore ways to integrate environmental protection for fish passage and survival in hydropower operations.

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Biofouling/Biocorrosion Mesocosms at PNNL-Sequim

Researchers have specialized facilities at the Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim for studying biofouling and biocorrosion.

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Biotechnology Laboratories at PNNL-Sequim

The biotechnology laboratories at PNNL-Sequim are designed to facilitate research across in silico, bench, mesocosm, and ecosystem scales.

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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.

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Chem/Bio Isolation Laboratories at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim has laboratories that are physically-isolated and individually-accessed spaces, which enable research using organisms, materials, or equipment that require additional levels of protection

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Climate-Simulated Algae Ponds at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim has indoor climate-simulation raceway ponds for microalgae culture that are monitored under carefully controlled conditions.

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Computational and Applied Geophysical and Geomechanics Laboratory

The Computational and Applied Geophysical and Geomechanics Laboratory enables subsurface fluid dynamics modeling, stability prediction of perforation tunnels, simulation test design, fluid removal or injection monitoring, and more.

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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).

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Greenhouse at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim has a 720-square-feet greenhouse with an automated roof and side venting so that researchers can work under natural lighting with controlled thermal conditions.

Grid Storage Launchpad at PNNL

The DOE’s Office of Electricity has selected PNNL as the site for a new, national grid energy storage research and development (R&D) facility to accelerate the development of the next generation of grid energy storage technologies.

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Hydrobiogeochemistry Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim

The Hydrobiogeochemistry Laboratory at the PNNL-Sequim contains cutting edge laboratory and field deployable instrumentation for evaluating a wide range of hydrological and biogeochemical processes

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Hyperbaric Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim is home to a Hyperbaric Laboratory where research related physical, chemical, and biological processes in ocean waters is conducted.

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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.

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Mercury Analytical Laboratory at PNNL-Sequim

PNNL-Sequim's Mercury Analytical Laboratory conducts ultra-trace level measurements of both mercury and monomethyl mercury in sediments, water, biological tissue, and other matrices.