Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC)
The ERSP seeks to encourage the incorporation of computational modeling as a component of subsurface research.
Whether at the molecular scale, intermediate scales or the field scale, conceptual and computational models of processes affecting
contaminant transport are important elements of ERSP investigations. Computational models serve as integral components of
subsurface research and help to clarify research hypotheses and guide future research directions. ERSP science teams,
particularly the field research components of the program, are encouraged to partner with modelers and computational
scientists to provide state-of-the-science descriptions of subsurface processes and predictions of contaminant transport.
These efforts are ultimately aimed at providing science-based predictions of contaminant mobility to aid decision-making for environmental remediation at DOE sites.
The Environmental Remediation Sciences Division (ERSD) partners with the U.S. DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing
Research (ASCR) under the SciDAC (Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing) program. The
SciDAC program
seeks to foster connections between application scientists and math/computer scientists to facilitate the
incorporation of high performance computing (peta-scale) into research programs funded throughout DOE's Office of Science.
ERSD in collaboration with ASCR funded two
SciDAC projects in FY 2006 specifically focused on simulating the fate and
transport of subsurface contaminants in groundwater These highly collaborative
projects allow ERSD to expand its breadth of research by including high performance computing as a component of its research portfolio.
Program Manager
Dr. Todd Anderson
Environmental Remediation Sciences Division
Office of Biological and Environmental Research
SC-23.4/Germantown Building
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585-1290
e-mail:
todd.anderson@science.doe.gov
Phone: (301) 903-5549
Fax: (301) 903-4154
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