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The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory & Collaboratory

Conference ·
OSTI ID:214655
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  1. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) under construction at Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL), one of the U.S. Department of Energy`s national laboratories, will be the premier basic research center dealing with environmental issues relevant to the DOE`s missions. A Collaboratory is an open meta-laboratory that spans multiple geographical areas with collaborators interacting via electronic means - {open_quotes}working together apart.{close_quotes} Collaboratories are designed to enable close ties among scientists in a given research area, to promote collaborations involving scientists in diverse areas, to accelerate the development and dissemination of basic knowledge, and to minimize the time-lag between discovery and application. PNL is developing a Collaboratory that will enable more effective environmental molecular sciences research, with the instrumentation being developed for the EMSL as the testbed. Creating a Collaboratory entails integrating software and hardware computing tools to produce an environment where multiple, geographically separated researchers can collaborate on experimental and analysis tasks, data sharing, joint operation of computer and instrument resources, and exchange of personal expertise.
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
214655
Report Number(s):
CONF-950801--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English