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Ranchers, farmers, loggers and recreationalists throughout the West are being asked to share range-lands. With more groups using Western rangelands, it has become increasingly important to monitor the land to maintain it and to guard against overuse.

The Federal Laboratory Consortium has bestowed Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Acoustic Inspection Device, engine exhaust aftertreatment system.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a comprehensive new tool that will provide federal and state regulators with some of the critical information they need to help protect people, the environment and the Columbia River near the Hanford Site in Washington state.

The National Corn Growers Association and Archer Daniels Midland Company have partnered with the DOE Office of Science's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to develop a process for extracting important components from corn fiber. Such components are instrumental in developing products like fuel ethanol, plastics, polyester, and personal care products.

Headlines from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Quarterly news tipsheet include: "Leave for Mars without fuel to return?," "Global warming could leave salmon high and dry," "Lighting the future," and "What chemicals are in our air?"

On the battlefield, having a reliable source of power to operate the many advanced electronic devices a soldier carries is essential. But today's heavy and cumbersome batteries fall short in satisfying the military's needs. In search of both a lightweight and reliable alternative, the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed the smallest power system yet, all wrapped up in a micro-sized package.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized for transferring technologies that are keeping weapons and contraband from crossing U.S. borders, reducing the toxicity of vehicle emissions and helping communities prepare for natural and other disasters. The Federal Laboratory Consortium announced this week that it is honoring PNNL with three 2003 Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards for the laboratory's Acoustic Inspection Device, engine exhaust aftertreatment system and EMAdvantage emergency management software.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have extracted part of the human immune system and reconstituted it in brewer's yeast in a fashion that enables powerful machines to quickly identify new antibodies. The advance could have major repercussions for fundamental biological science as well as industries that use antibodies for sensors, biodetectors, diagnostic tools and therapeutic agents.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, managed by the Office of Science, have developed a technology to immobilize high concentrations of active enzymes--harnessing twice the activity than that of enzymes in free solution. Results of this research are reported in the August 2002 Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In a significant scientific advance, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have identified or confirmed 490 proteins in human blood serum - nearly doubling the number of known serum proteins, according to a paper accepted for publication in the December issue of Molecular and Cellular Proteomics.