Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy J. Michael Kuperberg Acting Division Director Environmental Remediation Sciences Division DOE, Office of Science, OBER ERSD, ERSP, NABIR, EMSP, BER, GTL* ERSD 2006 Spring PI Meeting *Everything you ever wanted to know about environmental remediation science research at DOE

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy What you have accomplished this year!  Joe Wang, Arizona State University ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Electrochemistry  Darsh Wasan, Illinois Institute of Technology AICE Alpha Chi Sigma Award for Chemical Engineering Research  Walter Weber, Jr., University of Michigan - ES&T festschrift tribute “geosorbents for immobilizing environmental contaminants”  Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma - microarray-based genomic technologies for community analysis – top 20 papers in AEM  Allison Campbell (EMSL) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer - Bioactive Thin-Film Coatings for Surgical Implants  Terry Hazen (LBNL) – First ERSD Distinguished Scientist Fellowship  Jeff Gillow (BNL) on x-ray spectro-microscopy - NPR’s MicrobeWorld  Cherly Kuske (LANL) “Bioterror Sensors Yield Curious Findings” - NPR’s Morning Edition

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy What EMSL has accomplished this year!  EMSL symposium at AAAS (Unique Tools for Unique Science: Profiling a DOE National Scientific User Facility)  Grand Challenges - Washington University’s Himadri Pakrasi & PNNL’s Dave Koppenaal – Membrane biology of proteins in cyanobacterium - PNNL’s John Zachara & Jim Fredrickson – Microbe- mineral interface and electron transfer  Science Themes – four areas of environmental molecular science around which BER & EMSL will make strategic investments and decisions - Call is out currently for user proposals in these areas

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy What we’ve accomplished this year!  Reorganized the research program  Hired new staff  Written a new Strategic Plan  Released two solicitations for FY 2007 funding  Reengaged in DoD’s SERDP program

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy Reorganized the research program  FY 2006 Budget consolidated NABIR and EMSP into a single research program - Environment Remediation Sciences Program (ERSP)  Maintains interest in processes that control contaminant mobility in subsurface  Will redistribute programmatic responsibilities

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy Staff  Paul Bayer  Todd Anderson  Roland Hirsch  Arthur Katz  Kim Laing – Program Support Specialist  Mike Kuperberg – Biologist & Acting Division Director  David Lesmes – Physical Scientist (officially began work yesterday!)

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy Performance Monitoring  Long-term measure - “By 2015, provide sufficient scientific understanding to allow a significant fraction of DOE sites to incorporate coupled biological, chemical and physical processes into decision making for environmental remediation”  Annual Target - FY 2006: Develop predictive model for contaminant transport that incorporates complex biology, hydrology, and chemistry of the subsurface. Validate model through field tests  Quarterly Milestones

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy ERSP Strategic Plan

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy ERSP Strategic Plan ct’d Research Goals  Develop an improved understanding of the processes governing the fate and transport of contaminants to predict and control environmental remediation and facilitate stewardship of DOE sites - Coupled biological, chemical and hydrogeologic processes at field relevant spatial scales - Conceptual/numerical models for realistic process and parameter upscaling in field environments  Explore new options and concepts for remediation of subsurface systems - Genomics:GTL tools for genomics and proteomics - Microbial metabolic processes that control contaminant mobility - Key redox/complexation reactions and degradation pathways - Form and stability of immobilized contaminants  Provide the scientific foundation for new measurement and monitoring tools to better understand and manage contaminant transport - Changes in microbial community composition and metabolic potential - Measuring biogeochemical and hydrologic responses - Assessing chemical speciation in sediments and waters

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy FY 2007 Solicitations  ER06-12 Environmental Remediation Sciences Program - …hypothesis-driven research to define biologically-mediated and/or hydrogeochemical processes influencing the form and mobility of DOE contaminants - …address the applicability of the proposed research to DOE relevant contaminant transport processes occurring in the field  ER06-16 ERSP Integrated Field-Scale Subsurface Research Challenge - establish field research site(s) where integrated science teams manage and conduct field-site research over a five year period. - hypothesis-based field research on key processes influencing the subsurface transport, immobilization or remobilization of metal and radionuclide contaminants at DOE sites and to manage the field site(s)

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy FY 2007 Solicitations ct’d  Exciting and excited  Constrained in our ability to amplify, clarify or explain the language in the solicitation  Pre-proposals - ER06-12 due April 14 (full proposals due June 15) - ER06-16 due May 11 (full proposals due July 27)  Emphasize “applicability of the proposed research to DOE relevant contaminant transport processes”

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy (President’s request) ERSD Budget history

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy What’s next?  Review and fund proposals  Fall PI meeting - Fall 2006 “Field research” October Oak Ridge  Plans for future PI meetings - Spring and Fall meetings - Topics will vary - Spring 2007 topic Airlie House

Office of Science U.S. Department of Energy What can you do for us?  Great science! (that advances DOE’s mission in environmental remediation)  Notify us of your accomplishments - Publications, awards, Nobel prizes  Acknowledge your funding source  Consider EMSL & other DOE User Facilities in your research plan

Thank you!