Staff information

F Blaine Metting

Biological Sciences Division
Manager
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
MSIN: P7-54
Richland, WA 99352
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Biography

Dr. Blaine Metting manages the Biological & Environmental Sciences Product Line and Health & Human Services business across PNNL. In this role, he shares responsibility for program and business development and project oversight in systems biology and biotechnology, biomedical research and environmental sciences. Since joining the Laboratory, Dr. Metting has coordinated internal discretionary research and development programs in microbial biotechnology, molecular biology, and environmental sciences. He has participated in developing programs in bio-based products and carbon management while also assisting the Office of Science at DOE in building national research programs in bioremediation, carbon management and post-genome biology and currently serves as co-Director of DOE’s multi-institutional Center for Research in Enhancing Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration.

Dr. Metting joined PNNL in 1990 as a Senior Research Scientist and has been a Program Manager since 1993. Prior to joining PNNL, he was co-founder and research and development director for a microbial biotechnology company that received support from the National Science Foundation, USDA and the Department of Energy. He is active in the U.S. Biotechnology Industry Organization, the Washington State Biotechnology & Biomedical Association and currently represents Battelle on the Board of the Oregon Bioscience Association.

Research Interests

Microbial biotechnology
Molecular biology
Environmental sciences
Carbon Sequestration

Education and Credentials

Ph.D. Botany, Washington State University
M.S. Botany, Washington State University
B.A. Liberal Arts, Whitman College
M.B.A. coursework, University of Washington

Affiliations and Professional Service

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Phycological Society of America
Society for Industrial Microbiology
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society

Awards and Recognitions

Department of Agriculture Small Business Innovation Research Award
Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research Award
National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Award
Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid
Solar Energy Research Institute Contract
National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research Grant
European Desert Reclamation Foundation Research Award (with University of Bergen, Norway)

PNNL Publications

2003

Metting FB, Jr., MJ Scott, J Benemann, E Greenbaum, M Seibert, AM Spormann, H Yukawa, and J Houghton. 2003. "Microbial and Enzyme Biotechnology: 21st Century Opportunities for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation." In Applications of Biotechnilogy to Mitigation of Greenhouse Warming, Proceedings of the St. Michaels II Workshop, ed. Norman J. Rosenberg, F. Blaine Metting, R. Cesar Izaurralde, pp. 115-136. Battelle Press, Columbus, OH.

1998

Scott MJ, FB Metting, JS Fruchter, and RE Wildung. 1998. "Research Investment Pays Off." Soil & groundwater cleanup (October):6-13.