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TEAMING WITH DOE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TO DEVELOP AND TRANSFER CHARACTERIZATION, MONITORING, AND SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES

The five cleanup areas represented here indicate the focus of the DOE Environmental Management (EM) program for cleaning up contaminant plumes, landfills, tank wastes, mixed wastes and contaminated facilities resulting from decades of nuclear weapons production and related scientific activities. Supported by Ames Laboratory scientists, the program goals are to develop and transfer the new characterization, monitoring, and sensor technologies that are required to accomplish the DOE EM waste management and environmental restoration work faster, better, safer, and cheaper.

"Our goal is always to bring the best technology to bear on a problem from whatever source, whether from a DOE laboratory, private industry or academia" say Glenn Bastiaans and Bill Haas, former Ames Laboratory scientists.
Emphasizing user needs and collaboration between technology developers and users, the Ames Laboratory group provides technical and administrative assistance to DOE's Characterization, Monitoring, and Sensor Technology - Crosscutting Program (CMST-CP).

Ames Laboratory scientists are contributing their expertise to assist DOE Headquarters to develop and transfer new technologies needed to solve specific environmental cleanup problems.

The CMST Group provides technical expertise and administrative assistance to DOE's Characterization, Monitoring, and Sensor Technology - Crosscutting Program (CMST-CP), a national effort to provide improved technologies for specific characterization, monitoring, and sensing problems.

"Striving to meet DOE's environmental management needs, we're working to complete the development of innovative technologies and to deploy those technologies with customers at DOE sites," says Ames Laboratory's Martin Edelson about CMST Group's work to support DOE technology development and transfer efforts.

Ames Laboratory scientists assist by helping analyze DOE CMST needs, by assessing research progress, and by facilitating the field testing and ultimate deployment of innovative technologies. Guiding technology development to deployment, they provide information to researchers on performance needs and publicize new technology performance specifications to customers throughout the DOE, other federal agencies, and the general public.

In related activities, Ames scientists work with technology developers and personnel from other federal agencies to demonstrate and validate the developer's technology performance specifications under well- controlled field test conditions. This technology validation process often is required to obtain user, regulator, and customer acceptance of innovative technologies.

BENEFITS:

• More Focused Technology Development -- Research and development is targeted on clearly defined needs.
• Prioritized Delivery of Technologies -- Clear prioritizing helps deliver timely technology solutions for DOE's most urgent needs.
• Technology Transfer Encouraged -- Promoting communication and collaboration among technology developers and users helps developers better understand DOE needs and helps users become more aware and accepting of emerging technologies.
• Duplication Minimized -- Effective coordination reduces replication of work within DOE.
• Efficient Technologies Emphasized --This coordination encourages techniques that save time and money, such as field-deployable technologies offering immediate results and reduced lab analysis costs.

BOTTOM LINE:

By focusing on user needs and emphasizing collaboration between technology developers and customers, the CMST Group facilitates deployment of innovative technologies. DOE Headquarters and Ames Laboratory work together to speed development and transfer of technologies for faster, safer, better and cheaper characterization, monitoring, and sensing work.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

For additional information concerning the CMST-Crosscutting Program and the Monthly Progress Reports produced by its principal investigators, please visit the archived CMST-CP site, which was active from November 1989 to September 2002.

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Last Modified: 14 February 2006 by dave eckels
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