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New technology Keeps Evidence Close To The Vest

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are teaming with Mnemonic Systems Inc. on an interactive system that will enable law enforcement personnel to quickly capture, store and relay vast amounts of information at crime scenes and other field scenarios.

Environmental Technology Breakthroughs Forecast -- Year 2008

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In its first environmental technology forecast, a team of researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has identified the 10 most important technological breakthroughs that will lead to a cleaner environment while providing major benefits to consumers over the next decade. Technologies that help prevent problems before they arise surfaced as a major theme.

Funder: Department of Energy

Lab/Industry Team To Improve Health, Materials And Manufacturing

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Department of Energy Secretary Federico Peña announced today that Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been awarded $2.1 million to work with industry on three projects, with benefits ranging from new disease identification methods to improved glass production. Collaborations will take place over a three-year period and include matched industrial support of $2.6 million from IBM, Corning and Texas firms SEMATECH and Genometrix.

Funder: DOE

Pacific Northwest Staff Win National Awards For Transferring Research To Industry

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Three technologies developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have won 1998 Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium. Pacific Northwest received the awards for transferring and commercializing an advanced soil remediation technology and two innovative software products.

National Laboratory Known For Environmental Technology Directing Attention On Solving Agriculture And Food Processing Problems

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a leader in environmental and energy sciences, now is focusing its scientific and technological resources on the emerging problems of agriculture and food production.

3D Visualization Software To Help With Information Overload

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Starlight, an advanced three-dimensional visualization technology, has been developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., to help solve the problem of information overload. Already in use by the U.S. intelligence community, Starlight can be applied to a variety of other fields, such as medical data analysis, environmental security and current events monitoring.

Funder: U.S. Department of Defense

Electrically Based Technologies Heat Up The Cleanup Market

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two technologies developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory that promise faster, cheaper and more effective cleanup of certain contaminated soils now are available commercially.

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy

Basin Traps Air Pollution In Mexico City: International Study Has Implications For U.S. Cities

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The first detailed measurements in Mexico City of pollutants such as peroxyacetal nitrate show concentrations similar to those that burned eyes and lungs in Los Angeles in the early 1970s, according to preliminary results of a field study conducted earlier this year. Peroxyacetal nitrate also is implicated in the production of ozone, another irritant that makes breathing difficult. The international study has implications for U.S. cities

Funder: U.S. Department of Energy and Mexican Government

Secretary Peña, Industry Leaders To Discuss Vehicles Of The Future

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Meeting Announcement

Secretary of Energy Federico Peña and senior executives from the Big Three automakers, the IBM Corporation and Northwest aluminum, transportation and electric utility companies will gather for a summit in Seattle later this month to discuss the development of technologies needed to create motor vehicles of the future, including cars that get 70 to 80 miles to the gallon.

Eddies And Echoes To Thwart Smugglers

DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two technologies developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will make it more difficult for smugglers to slip illicit items past border enforcement agents. One technology was recently installed at a U.S. Customs inspection site and both will soon be provided to customs inspectors in Easter Europe and former Soviet republics.

Funder: U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense