Atmospheric Aerosol Systems
The Atmospheric Aerosol Systems science theme focuses on understanding the chemistry, physics and molecular-scale dynamics of aerosols for model parameterization to improve the accuracy of climate model simulations and develop a predictive understanding of climate. By elucidating the role of natural and anthropogenic regional and global climate forcing mechanisms, EMSL can provide DOE and others with the ability to develop cost-effective strategies to monitor, control and mitigate them.
To advance this science theme, EMSL will employ our research and that of our users for:
- Biogenic organic aerosols: Develop a molecular-scale understanding of the processes that enhance controllable biogenic organic aerosol formation and determine their radiative properties to improve the accuracy of climate model simulations.
EMSL participates in and supports many Department of Energy Office of Science climate research programs, including the Office of Biological and Environmental Research's GOAmazon program. Read details on how EMSL supports GOAmazon.
The Atmospheric Aerosol Systems science theme focuses on understanding the chemistry, physics and molecular-scale dynamics of aerosols for model parameterization to improve the accuracy of climate model simulations and develop a predictive understanding of climate. By elucidating the role of natural and anthropogenic regional and global climate forcing mechanisms, EMSL can provide DOE and others with the ability to develop cost-effective strategies to monitor, control and mitigate them.
To advance this science theme, EMSL will employ our research and that of our users for:
- Biogenic organic aerosols: Develop a molecular-scale understanding of the processes that enhance controllable biogenic organic aerosol formation and determine their radiative properties to improve the accuracy of climate model simulations.
EMSL participates in and supports many Department of Energy Office of Science climate research programs, including the Office of Biological and Environmental Research's GOAmazon program. Read details on how EMSL supports GOAmazon.
Scientists bear witness to birth of an ice cloud
Water: Finding the normal within the weird
EMSL scientists major contributors at AGU annual meeting
Unraveling Molecular Complexity of Natural Systems
Koppenaal a co-editor of just published encyclopedia
EMSL's annual call for proposals opens in early January
Cream of the Crop: Top-Tier Publications from 2016
Deep down fracking wells, microbial communities thrive
EMSL welcomes UCLA-DOE Institute principal investigators
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Leads
Dr. Shilling is an atmospheric chemist at PNNL with expertise in measuring aerosol gas- and particle-phase chemical composition and gas/particle interactions, and in applying mass spectrometry to solve problems in atmospheric chemistry. He came...
Instruments
The LEAP® 4000 XHR local electrode atom probe tomography instrument enabled the first-ever comprehensive and accurate 3-D chemical imaging studies...
Custodian(s): Arun Devaraj, Daniel Perea
The 3.4 petaflop system's 23,000 Intel processors have 184,000 gigabytes of memory available, about four times as much memory per processor as other...
Custodian(s): Doug Baxter
Aurora, EMSL's scientific data archive, is a dedicated computer system specifically designed for long-term storage of data collected by EMSL...
Custodian(s): Ryan Wright, Dave Cowley
The environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) is a new-generation SEM that can image samples under controlled environments and temperatures...
Custodian(s): Alexander Laskin, Scott Lea
Recently built and only available at EMSL, this customized SFG-VS spectrometer employs the synchronization of a 100-picosecond amplifier laser,...
Custodian(s): , Mark Bowden
Publications
Surface functionalized magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are appealing candidates for analytical separation of heavy metal ions from waste water and...
Denitrification is a microbial process that reduces nitrate and nitrite to nitrous oxide (N2O) or dinitrogen (N2) with a strong implication to global...
A density functional theory study of a cobalt(II) octaethylporphyrin (CoOEP) monolayer on Au(111) and HOPG(0001) surfaces was performed under...
Knowledge of the alignment of molecular frontier levels in the ground state can be used to predict the photocatalytic activity of an interface. The...
The micro-structural modifications produced in MgO single crystals exposed to medium-energy heavy ions (1.2-MeV Au) were investigated using...
Science Highlights
Posted: December 20, 2016
Tom Rickey
Scientists have witnessed the birth of atmospheric ice clouds, creating ice cloud crystals in the laboratory and then taking images of...
Posted: December 14, 2016
Mary Beckman, PNNL
Water has many unusual properties, such as its solid form, ice, being able to float in liquid water, and they get weirder below...
Posted: December 05, 2016
The Science
A recent study demonstrated enormous potential for scientists to explore extremely complex molecular mixtures and systems frequently...
Posted: October 21, 2016
The Science
Aerosols play an important role in climate, air quality, and health. A recent study provides new molecular-level insights into how a...
Posted: October 10, 2016
A team of researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, NASA Langley Research Center, Colorado University Boulder and Brookhaven National...
Instruments
The objective of this study is to investigate the mobility of uranium after reaction of contaminated sediments with phosphate solutions injected at...
Quantum information science is an up and coming area of research aimed to transform computing capabilities in the future. The use of quantum bits, or...
The dissolution and precipitation of gibbsite [a-Al(OH)3] and boehmite [a-AlOOH] is of prime importance to the final disposition of high-level...
The specific functions of glycans in a given biological process or pathogenic condition depend on their specific molecular compositions and...
Perform analyses and characterizations to help determine the composition of materials that result in clogging of a ceramic membrane.