PNNL

Staci Herman joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in 2019 and leads the Radiochemistry Beta team in the National Security Directorate.

In her role, Herman helps lead a diverse group of scientists focusing on rapid separations for nuclear forensics and consequence management. She works to develop new separation techniques for actinides and activation and fission products from various media. She is also training with the Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment Center to assist in gamma spectroscopy assessment.

Prior to PNNL, Herman was a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, and during this time she completed multiple internships at Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory working with the Marshall Islands program monitoring long-lived radionuclide behavior in the local biota. 

• Nuclear Forensics
• Actinide Separations
• Activation and Fission Product Chemistry
• Radiological Consequence Management
• Environmental Radionuclide Fate
• Gamma Spectroscopy

• PhD in chemistry, University of Cincinnati
• BA in chemistry, Saint Anselm College

2023

• Evaluation of SR/ TEVA/ TRU Triple Stack for Separation of Activation Products. Staci Herman, Evan Warzecha, Riane Stene, Hilary Emerson, Dana Arbova, Caleb Allen, Nicolas Uhnak, Matthew RisenHuber, Brienne Seiner, Lori Metz, Chelsie Beck; accepted for publication to Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 2023.
• Determination of distribution coefficients of 41 elements in nitric and hydrochloric acids for actinide resin; Evan Warzecha, Staci M. Herman, Ean Arnold, Matthew RisenHuber, Nic Uhnak, Bethany Lawler, Brienne N. Seiner, Chelsie L. Beck; Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2023, 332, 2785-2791.
• Chemical separation and measurement of platinum activation products; Melinda S. Wren, Iain May, Elena Guardincerri, Melissa S. Boswell, Staci M. Herman, Evan J. Warzecha, Morgan M. Haney, Nikolaos Fotiades, Gregory E. Dale, Susan K. Hanson; Talanta, 2023, 260, 124587.

2022

• Alpha/beta-gated gamma–gamma spectroscopy of mixed fission products for trace analysis; Bruce D. Pierson, Brian C. Archambault, Lawrence R. Greenwood, Morgan M. Haney, Michael G. Cantaloub, Alex R. Hagen, Staci M. Herman, Nicolas E. Uhnak, James M. Bowen & Jane H. Estrada; Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2022, 331,
  5453-5467.
• Evaluation of AG1-x8 to separate radionuclides in an irradiated sample; Staci Herman, Leah M. Arrigo, Ean Arnold, Morgan M. Haney, Lindsay Irwin, Bethany Lawler, Lori Metz, Brienne Seiner, Chelsie Beck; Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2022, 331, 5107-5112.
• Separation of select metal isotopes from a mixed activation and fission product sample; Chelsie L. Beck, Staci M. Herman, Evan J. Warzecha, Hilary P. Emerson, Riane E. Stene, Morgan M. Haney, Brienne N. Seiner & Lori A. Metz; Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2022, 331, 5123-5128.

2016

• Gamma Spectroscopy Analysis of Archived Marshall Island Soil Samples; Herman, S, Hoffman, K., Lavelle, K., Trauth, A., LaMont, S.P., Hamilton, T, Glover, S.E., Connick, W., Spitz, H. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2016, 307(3), 2563-2566.
• Compton background suppression with a multi-element scintillation detector using high speed data acquisition and digital signal processing; George Popescu, Staci Herman, Samuel Glover, Henry Spitz. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 2016, 307(3), 1949-1955.