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Anthropogenic influences and natural processes can have long lasting effects on the health of the subsurface environment. Subsurface water is heavily affected by changes in the environment and its quality is regarded as a powerful metric for evaluating the health of the subsurface environment. Therefore, constant monitoring of groundwater quality to identify influences over the seasonal hydrologic ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to reduced the incidence of insider cyber-enabled crime and insider cyber-related espionage on HPC systems. With the rapid increase in cyber-crime, it is imperative for the DOE and government agencies invest more in security to protect vital data and assets. While it is still necessary for ...

There is an urgent need to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from coal burning power plants. Current CO2 capture technologies are too expensive and not economically viable. A new technology that can capture ~90% of the CO2 and significantly reduce the cost of capture is required for commercial viability. This project is aimed at the development of an advanced algae technology that can enable 90% ...

Science and research funded and performed by the Department of Energy relies significantly on the modeling and simulations that High Performance Computing systems provide. Research performed on these systems can include energy, climate modeling, nuclear weapons and other government funded research by other agencies. Research missions go beyond local agency use and HPC platforms within Department o ...

Software protection and its associated tools can be regarded as a first line of defense for run-time integrity in an HPC system, but cannot be easily extended to provide security solution beyond the software level. Hence, it is also essential to build a system- wide security analysis tool to assess the entire HPC system’s security. By revealing the risks the system has to an adversary, and impro ...

Advances in sensors, experimental instrumentation, and computational technologies provide new opportunities for applied research and development in academia and industry. These same advances dramatic increase the volume, velocity, and variety, the three V’s of Big Data, in experimental data; and concurrently increases in the scale of computational resources required for processing this data. App ...

Accelerating the discovery, development and manufacturing of new advanced materials and novel chemical products “twice as fast at a fraction of the cost,” as outlined by the Materials Genome Initiative supported by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Basic Energy Sciences Program, requires a revolution in scientific knowledge discovery in chemical and materials sciences. This goal can only be a ...

Electric vehicles are creating unprecedented demand for lithium. Most lithium is produced from brine resources. Conventional methods for extracting lithium from brines suffer from low lithium recovery and cannot access the expanded resources needed for mass adoption of electric vehicles. The Department of Energy has supported a great variety of projects relate ...

One of the main roadblocks to higher efficiencies for warm-white LED light sources is spectrally-wide red-emitting bulk phosphors, which emit a significant amount of their energy either in the far red or infrared where the eye’s response is poor or zero. Consequently, employing those phosphors (along with bulk green-yellow emitting ones) will result in desired warmer light sources, however, at ...

SiC is an excellent material for fusion reactor environments, including first wall plasma facing materials and breeder-blanket modules. It is also being considered as structural elements in Small Modular Advanced High-Temperature Reactor (SmAHTR) because of its low-activation, temperature resistance, and radiation damage tolerance compared to most materials. The challenge is in joining the S ...