Environmental Research
Argonne has been involved in providing solutions to environmental problems
since its earliest days. Part of Argonne 's Post World War II mission
was to study the transport of radioactive materials from nuclear testing
in the early 1950s and determine the health and environmental effects
from those tests. This work has evolved into the wide-ranging research
on environmental issues Argonne does today including providing research
tools for monitoring climate change, computer modeling of ecosystems
and contracting with agencies to produce environmental impact statements.
The Environmental
Science Division conducts applied
research, assessment, and technology development in the following areas:
risk and waste management; natural resource systems and integrated
assessments; restoration and pollution prevention; environmental policy
analysis and planning; and environmental management systems. Most of
these efforts support federal agencies that are responsible for energy
development and use, natural resource management, or national defense.
The Decision and Information
Sciences Division develops innovative decision tools, models and
information systems and applies them to the resolution of energy,
environmental and other related problems of regional, national and
global significance.
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)
Program is
the largest global climate change research program supported by the U.S.
Department of Energy. The primary goal of the ARM Program is to improve
the treatment of cloud and radiation physics in global climate models
in order to improve the climate simulation capabilities of these models.
Argonne manages ARM program operations for DOE.
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