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DOE’s Office of Science Accepting Applications for Summer 2025 Undergraduate Internships and Visiting Faculty Placements
Applications are currently being accepted for the Summer 2025 term of two programs offered by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science: the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Visiting Faculty Program (VFP).
October 21, 2024
Cloud Computing Captures Chemistry Code
Some computing challenges are so big that it’s necessary to go all in. That’s the approach a diverse team of scientists and computing experts led by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, along with colleagues from Microsoft and other national laboratories and universities, are taking to democratize access to emerging cloud computing resources.
October 21, 2024
Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas Production in a Changing Climate
Navigating the future of energy: the role of a warming world on arctic resources. As Arctic sea ice thickness continues to decline due to
climate change,
scientists expect that oil and gas resources in the offshore areas of this region will soon be more economically accessible.
October 18, 2024
Science News
Major Eco-Sensitive Rivers Could See Substantial Hydropower Expansion in a Growing and Transitioning Energy System
Hydropower
could expand substantially during the twenty-first century in many regions of the world to meet rising or changing energy demands, from
socioeconomic
development increasing demand for energy to a transition to low-carbon sources of energy.
October 18, 2024
Ahead in the Clouds
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) chemist John Shilling, wearing soundproof earmuffs, sits between large scientific instruments on a plane. These instruments measure gas and
aerosol
particles, and later return to a lab Shilling custom built to study the complex impact of aerosols on clouds.
October 17, 2024
Updating Available Patterns of Mean Field Behavior for CMIP6 Models
The Pangeo-Enabled
ESM
Pattern Scaling (PEEPS) dataset simplifies and updates the generation of spatial patterns following past efforts to provide an available library of spatial patterns (average global-to-local relationships) of multiple earth system model (ESM) outputs for Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) data.
October 16, 2024
Modeling the Glaciation of Mixed-Phase Clouds in the Laboratory
Clouds are one of the most uncertain components in numerical weather prediction and climate models. Mixed-phase clouds (those containing both supercooled liquid water and ice) can be especially challenging to represent.
October 17, 2024
19 Real-World Examples of Geothermal Heat Pumps In Action
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's)
Geothermal
Technologies Office (GTO) has published a set of geothermal heat pump (GHP) case studies to help people better understand GHP systems, installations, and benefits. These 19 studies detail GHP installations in climate zones across the United States, with varying system types, sizes, and end uses.
October 15, 2024
New technologies are emerging that can convert CO2 into fuel, but what impact will they have on water resources?
Argonne’s new tool, WATER for CO2Rue, assesses the water resource impacts of carbon conversion technologies. This innovative tool helps ensure that CO2-to-fuel solutions are developed sustainably, minimizing water use while advancing a low-carbon future.
October 15, 2024
Student News
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility will co-host a student workshop with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), and a consortium of Australian universities from February 2 to 7, 2025, in Tasmania, Australia.
October 11, 2024
Argonne National Laboratory kicks off first-ever science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) Showcase with STEM and workforce development partners from Chicago’s South Side. The showcase marked a first-of-its-kind event in the area, uniting students, educators and leaders from 20 STEM and workforce development organizations.
October 3, 24
Students from 38 schools are entering an ever-widening community of competitors and alumni involved in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar District Cup Collegiate Design Competition. In its sixth year, the Solar District Cup continues to challenge students to design and model solar and solar-plus-storage systems for real mixed-use districts.
October 1, 2024