FEBRUARY 21, 2023 Staff Accomplishment Ben Bond-Lamberty Outstanding Editor 2022 for Biogeosciences Ben Bond-Lamberty, an Earth scientist, was recently awarded the Outstanding Editor Award 2022 for the scientific journal Biogeosciences. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 17, 2023 Research Highlight Snow Shape Matters for Land Surface Processes Improving a snow albedo model to account for non-spherical snow grain shapes and the mixing of dust inside snowflakes in an Earth system model. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 9, 2023 Staff Accomplishment Yao Named Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology Lili Yao named associated editor at the Journal of Hydrology, a leading journal in the field of hydrological sciences. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 8, 2023 Research Highlight STITCHES: A Comprehensive Solution to Emulating Climate Model Output Building new climate outcome scenarios by stitching together pieces of existing ones. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 1, 2023 Research Highlight The Effect of Precipitation Change on Soil Respiration Varies Over Time The flux of carbon dioxide from forest soil may acclimate to some aspects of climate change. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 1, 2023 Research Highlight Understanding the Origin of Tropical Precipitation Bias in Climate Models Identifying links between large-scale and local-scale model biases in tropical precipitation. ( Read More )
JANUARY 25, 2023 Staff Accomplishment INFUSE-ing Fusion Energy with Solid Phase Processing PNNL will partner with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to develop innovative steel materials for fusion applications under the INFUSE program ( Read More )
JANUARY 25, 2023 Staff Accomplishment McJeon Will Serve as Guest Editor for Decarbonization Journal Issue Haewon McJeon will co-edit a special issue of Energy and Climate Change focused on national decarbonization strategies across the globe. ( Read More )
JANUARY 24, 2023 Feature Metal Alloys to Support Nuclear Fusion Energy Tungsten heavy alloys show promise for nuclear fusion energy development, according to new research conducted at PNNL. ( Read More )
JANUARY 19, 2023 News Release Wettest Winter Storms in the Western U.S. Growing Wetter Extreme winter storms are growing wetter and changing shape in the Western United States—such changes could compromise infrastructure designed to withstand only so much water. ( Read More )
JANUARY 13, 2023 Research Highlight Freshwater Flux Feedback Lengthens Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Variability Interactive freshwater flux works to prolong density anomalies over deep water formation areas in the North Atlantic. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 16, 2022 Staff Accomplishment Abigail Snyder Joins CMIP7 Strategic Ensemble Design Task Team Abigail Snyder named to international team focused on designing and scoping models for use in large intercomparison project. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 12, 2022 Staff Accomplishment Devaraj on npj Materials Degradation Editorial Board Materials scientist Arun Devaraj has joined the editorial board of npj Materials Degradation. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 8, 2022 Staff Accomplishment Andrew Gettelman Named American Geophysical Union Fellow The American Geophysical Union will honor Andrew Gettelman at their Fall Meeting as a new Fellow. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 2, 2022 Research Highlight What Drives Rapid Vertical Exchange in Northern Gulf of Mexico Water? Interactions between fronts and the land-sea breeze lead to strong vertical exchange in the northern Gulf of Mexico. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 2, 2022 Research Highlight Structural Insights into How Ions in Basic Solutions Transform Researchers identified a new intermediate phase that forms during the crystallization of hydrated aluminum-containing salts. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 30, 2022 Staff Accomplishment Steven Smith Joins CMIP7 Climate Forcings Task Team Steven Smith joins an international team that will evaluate current data and identify what should be included for future climate modeling. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 30, 2022 Staff Accomplishment Matt Feldman Receives Dedicated Service Award The American Society of Mechanical Engineers recognized radioactive material transportation expert Matt Feldman with its 2022 Dedicated Service Award. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 23, 2022 Feature Tracking Explosions with Toughened-Up Tracers PNNL researchers created rugged, adaptable, mass-manufacturable luminescent particle tracers for use in harsh environments. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 21, 2022 Research Highlight Optimizing Random Forest Machine Learning Models to Predict Water Quality Data-driven experiments can help determine best practices for Random Forest machine learning to predict water quality, particularly nitrate levels. ( Read More )