Building a Collaboratory in Environmental and Molecular Science

Conference · Tue Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:10148673

Kouzes, R T; Myers, J D; Devaney, D M; Dunning, T H; Wise, J A

A Collaboratory is a meta-laboratory that spans multiple geographical areas with collaborators interacting via electronic means. Collaboratories are designed to enable close ties between scientists in a given research area, promote collaborations involving scientists in diverse areas, accelerate the development and dissemination of basic knowledge, and minimize the time-lag between discovery and application. PNL is developing the concept of an Environmental and Molecular Sciences Collaboratory (EMSC) as a natural evolution of the EMSL project. The goal of the EMSC is to increase the efficiency of research and reduce the time required to implement new environmental remediation and preservation technologies. The EMSC will leverage the resources (intellectual and physical) of the EMSL by making them more accessible to remote collaborators as well as by making the resources of remote sites available to local researchers. It will provide a common set of computer hardware and software tools to support remote collaboration, a key step in establishing a collaborative culture for scientists in the theoretical, computational, and experimental molecular sciences across the nation. In short, the EMSC will establish and support an `electronic community of scientists researching and developing innovative environmental preservation and restoration technologies.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 10148673
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA--23921; CONF-9403113--1; ON: DE94011439
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990200
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CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
COMPUTER NETWORKS
DATA HANDLING
DATA TRANSMISSION
DESIGN
ENVIRONMENT
LABORATORIES
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS
REMEDIAL ACTION
REMOTE AREAS
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
WASTE MANAGEMENT