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Learn about our quarterly seminars, Global Summit, and other resources for environmental remediation professionals. As a platform to collaborate on research for environmental remediation and site stewardship—from Hanford to international sites—the RemPlex seeks to build connections among research, academia, government, and industry.

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Subsurface@PNNL takes research underground, providing an in-depth understanding of natural and engineered subsurface systems. Its “science-to-solutions” approach can be applied to improve the way subsurface contaminants are remediated and isolated, legacy waste is stored and disposed of, and energy sources are accessed and extracted.

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Environmental Remediation Features and Highlights

OCTOBER 20, 2022
Article

Watching the Cold War’s Environmental Footprint Shrink

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TRAC: Tracking Restoration and Closure title graphic
JULY 19, 2022
Article

Agile Waste Cleanup

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Central Plateau area at Hanford
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Research Highlight

Public Release of PNNL’s Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling Software

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AUGUST 23, 2021
Director's Column

PNNL Interns' Research Runs the Scientific Gamut

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Jennifer Meza, intern
AUGUST 5, 2021
Staff Accomplishment

PNNL Papers Lauded as “Noteworthy,” “Superior”

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WMSPapers
MARCH 8, 2021
Feature

Radiation Knows No Bounds—but Builds Strong Bonds Between Two Communities

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Group of visitors in front of Daiichi Nuclear Reactor in Fukushima Japan
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Feature

Ironing Out Technetium Contamination

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Iron and technetium
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Feature

The Root of Microplastics in Plants

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microplastics
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Research Highlight

PNNL’s E4D Software Receives NQA-1 Qualification

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A computer-generated image with a blue background uses rainbow colors to show where uranium is concentrated underground.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Staff Accomplishment

Qafoku Earns Soil Science Society of America Fellow Designation

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Qafoku
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Staff Accomplishment

Gorton Joins Advisory Board at Alma Mater

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Alicia Gorton
JULY 20, 2020
Director's Column

PNNL Scientists Target Dangerous "Forever Chemicals" Contaminating Hundreds of U.S. Sites

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MOF
JUNE 1, 2020
Staff Accomplishment

As the Conceptual Site Model Changes

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Pump-and-treat equipment
APRIL 21, 2020
Feature

Detecting Toxic PFAS with a Chip-Sized Sensor

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Lab on a Chip
APRIL 21, 2020
Feature

Beneath It All

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Earth illustration - South America
DECEMBER 6, 2019
Feature

PNNL Watershed Sciences: Fluid, Fast, and Impactful

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WHONDRS Water Sampling Site
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Research Highlight

Fire Increases Ecosystem Vulnerability to Future Disturbance Events

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image of forest fire
JULY 1, 2019
Feature

Nanoporous Material Nets Contaminant from Water

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Illustration of a fisherman with a net in the water, and the fish look like molecules
JUNE 11, 2019
Staff Accomplishment

Nik Qafoku Honored for Soil Chemistry Career

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Scientist Nik Qafoku and a closeup of soil sediment
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Feature

Imaging Goes Underground at the Hanford site

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PNNL electrical resistivity tomography tanks
JANUARY 30, 2019
Staff Accomplishment

Providing International Guidance to Achieve Remediation "End States"

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Portrait of Mike Truex

Our integrated, interdisciplinary approach to environmental remediation results in a diversity of success stories that cross multiple areas of technical expertise. See our publications page for a selection of journal articles and reports.

PNNL's computational geophysicists developed the Real-Time Four-Dimensional Subsurface Imaging technology to remotely and automatically sense large areas of the subsurface, allowing environmental remediation experts to ‘see’ contamination that is so deep it’s impractical to dig up.
PNNL’s integrated experimental and modeling approach generates critical, location-specific information about how to approach subsurface contamination and meet environmental remediation objectives at Hanford and other complex sites.

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Contacts

Tom Brouns
Director, Environmental Management Sector; Director, RemPlex
tom.brouns@pnnl.gov
509-372-6265
Nik Qafoku
Laboratory Fellow, Environmental Subsurface Science; Deputy Director of Outreach, RemPlex
Nik.Qafoku@pnnl.gov
(509) 371-6089
Karen P. Smith
Advisor, Environmental Assessment; Deputy Director of Operations, RemPlex
karen.p.smith@pnnl.gov
(509) 371-6355

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