Strategy and Operations


Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory. 2015. EMSL Strategic Plan 2014. PNNL-SA-111822, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland WA.

The EMSL Strategic Plan 2014 (version 0, July 30, 2015) is a 10-year plan that presents science challenges we will undertake, our goals, and how we will realize them. We're excited about EMSL’s future and look forward to continuing to address scientific problems of consequence for the nation and the world.

The EMSL Operations Manual (version 6.00 August 15, 2016) is a general resource tool to assist laboratory staff and EMSL users with locating official EMSL policy, practice, guidance, and associated subject matter experts.

EMSL's FY14 notable strategic plans include:

User and Project Statistics

In addition to tracking utilization and operating hours, the user support office provides quarterly data about active users and projects by proposal type.

EMSL's Data Management policies provide information to help researchers understand the data resources and data management available at EMSL. This information can be used by researchers to meet data management requirements as they prepare proposals for funding to other agencies. Additional information on Department of Energy data policies are available online.

Hours of Operations

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EMSL's total scheduled (planned) operating hours are based on 12 hours a day (6 am -6 pm), seven days a week (4380 hours) minus 8 holidays (96 hours.) and 1 planned power outage (36 hours).

Note: Holidays are Thanksgiving (2), Christmas (2), New Year's (1), Memorial Day (1), July 4th (1), and Labor Day (1).

Prior quarter hours

Past years hours