Research campaigns are designed to accelerate scientific progress in areas of high importance to DOE and the nation. They are of varying sizes depending on the science area. Some campaigns are be technique-oriented while others address specific science questions.
First-generation research campaigns focused on developing new linkages of capabilities. Second and later generation campaigns center around assembling multi-institutional teams to focus on critical scientific issues or challenges. Initial ideas for second-generation campaigns were proposed by EMSL users, EMSL science theme advisory panels, and members of the science advisory committee, and were further developed through small workshops with EMSL staff and users.
The featured research campaign summaries provide descriptions of active or completed projects.
2012
Development of Solute Transport Data Sets for Benchmarking Pore-Scale Numerical Simulators
Mart Oostrom, Changyong Zhang, Thomas Wietsma.
Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, PNNL, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, PNNL.
Use of synthetic biology to probe molecular machines in photosynthesis
Himadri Pakrasi, Louis Sherman, Rajeev Aurora, David Koppenaal, Scott Baker, Ljiljana Pasa-Tolic, Richard D. Smith, Alice Dohnalkova, Galya Orr, Jason McDermott.
Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, Biological Sciences, Purdue University, St. Louis University, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, PNNL, Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, PNNL.
The Plant-Soil Interface: Understanding Dynamic Interactions in the Context of Environmental Change
Gary Stacey, Ljlijana Pasa-Tolic,, Himadri Pakrasi, David Hoyt, Alice Dohnalkova, Galya Orr, Susannah Tringe, Michael Sadowsky, Richard Ferrieri, A. Scott Lea, Lye Meng Markillie.
Division of Biochemistry, University of Missouri - Columbia, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, PNNL, Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, Metagenome Program, Joint Genome Institute, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, PNNL.
2011
An Integrated Multi-Capability Approach for Analysis of Catalytic Systems
Charles Peden, Enrique Iglesia, James Kubicki, Jian Zhi Hu, Ja Hun Kwak, Yong Wang, Donghai Mei, Karl Mueller, David Hoyt, Nancy Washton, Sarah D. Burton, Jesse A. Sears, Hardeep Mehta, Niri Govind, Eric Bylaska, and Amity Andersen.
Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, PNNL; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Department of Geosciences, Penn State University; Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, PNNL.
Making Isoprene from Biomass Material using Bacillus Species
Birgitte Ahring, Bryan Lingge, Becky Hess, Junfeng Xue, Ron Taylor, H. Steven Wiley.
Center for Bioproducts and Bioenergy, Washington State University Tri-Cities, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, PNNL, National Security Directorate, PNNL, Fundamental and Computational Sciences Directorate, PNNL.