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David J. Bjornstad, leader of the Energy and Environmental Economics Group of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been appointed to the editorial council of The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
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Dr. Robert B. Cook, a section head in the Environmental Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named to a three-year appointment as an associate editor of "Biogeochemistry," an international scientific journal.Cook's scientific specialty, bioge...
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Iron filings the materials students sprinkle on paper above a magnet to see signs of a magnetic field-can also be used to clean up groundwater contaminated with organic compounds containing chlorine. Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Univ...
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Gerry Bunick, a biologist at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has received a four-year grant to study the structure of nucleosomes. The $600,000 grant, awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), marks the 14th year of NIH support for Bunick's work.Nucl...
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Robert L. Siegrist, a researcher in the Environmental Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been appointed to a two-year fellowship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).Siegrist, who holds a joint appointment with ORNL and the ...
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Lockheed Martin Energy Systems has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the American Public Works Association (APWA) to increase communications between the two organizations that may lead to improving infrastructures in municipalities across the United States. Lockheed Martin Energy Systems mana...
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David E. Reichle, associate director for Life Sciences and Environmental Technologies at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been named to the Research Coordination Council of the Gas Research Institute (GRI).The GRI is a not-for-profit scientific research org...
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An entry submitted by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) won a first-in-class award during the 1995 International Metallographic Contest in Albuquerque, N.M.The entry, titled "Martensitic Transformation in an Austenitic Stainless Steel Single Crystal," won in the ...
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A robotic arm developed at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) makes it possible for soldiers to go to war with a safer, more effective, automated cannon.Using a new Crusader system, soldiers on the battlefield will be able to reload a self-propelled howitzer-a can...
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Dr. Steven E. Lindberg, a senior research scientist in the Environmental Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been recognized by two magazines, Science Watch and Current Contents, as the author of one of the most widely cited papers publish...