Award-winning research advances AI applications for environmental cleanup.

The new Washington State Academy of Sciences electees from PNNL represent expertise in nuclear forensics, soil sciences, electricity infrastructure, and more.

Madalina Man, a legislative and regulatory specialist at PNNL, was an invited expert at the recent International Atomic Energy Agency Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review Mission for El Salvador.

PNNL chemist Sarah Saslow received the ACS Rising Star Award for her research supporting environmental cleanup, including work on legacy waste and subsurface contamination.

PNNL’s Center for the Remediation of Complex Sites inducted leaders Director David Peeler, Deputy Director Carolyn Pearce, Operations Director Christian Johnson, and advisors with multidisciplinary subsurface research expertise.

David Donnelly, an international compliance analyst at PNNL, recently served on a team of experts that completed the International Atomic Energy Agency’s first International Physical Protection Advisory Service mission in Kenya.

Emilie Purvine, a chief data scientist at PNNL, was elected as a council member at large of the American Mathematical Society.

PNNL researchers continue to deliver high-quality, high-impact research on radioactive waste and nuclear materials management, earning “Papers of Note” and “Superior Paper” awards.

PNNL researchers showcased subsurface sampling and remediation expertise at the 2025 Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable.

Brown University professor and PNNL joint appointee was honored for his exceptional work in applied mathematics.

Samrat (Sam) Chatterjee, a PNNL chief data scientist and team leader with the Data Sciences and Machine Intelligence group, was co-author of a CSET workshop report on agentic artificial intellilligence

PNNL computational and data scientist Mark Maupin was the team lead for a paper published in the journal Molecules.

Researchers discussed this topic at the 2024 Analog Computing for Science Workshop co-led by Antonino Tumeo.

PNNL researchers earned five Papers of Note, 17 Superior Papers, and one poster award for their environmental remediation, radioactive waste, and nuclear energy-related presentations.

The Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office recognized Livewire’s outstanding teamwork and technical expertise.

Frederick Day-Lewis, Lab Fellow and chief geophysicist at PNNL, was named the 2024 recipient of the Geological Society of America Public Service Award.

A PNNL Deep Vadose Zone Program publication that shows ferrihydrite helps protect groundwater is featured on the cover of ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.

PNNL’s Andrew Engel, Tony Chiang, and Sutanay Choudhury at the 2024 ICLR in Vienna.

Data scientist at PNNL receives the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society and Geonics Limited Early Career Award for work with geophysical modeling and subsurface inversion codes.

Adom Cooper was selected for the inaugural cohort of the Black Professionals in International Affairs at the Colin Powell Leadership Institute.