August 05, 2013 
New members to be inducted into Washington State Academy of Sciences in September
RICHLAND, Wash. - 4 scientists at the D.O.E.'s Pacific Northwest National Lab have been selected to join the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Steven Ashby, Ted Bowyer, Allison Campbell and Ruby Leung will join other scientists and engineers from across the state being acknowledged for outstanding scientific achievement and leadership. Academy members provide expert scientific and engineering analysis to inform public policy-making, and work to increase the role and visibility of science in Washington state.
The academy was created in 2005 and consists of in excess of 180 members from diverse academic disciplines and industries, including aerospace, agriculture, computer, science, energy, engineering, ecology and transportation. PNNL now has 8 current staff members in the academy, including the 4 new inductees. Additionally, current academy president-elect Subhash Singhal is a retired PNNL engineer who now serves as an independent consultant to the laboratory.
The new members will be recognized at the academy's yearly meeting in Seattle in September.
Steven Ashby
Ashby is PNNL's deputy director for Science and Technology, overseeing integration of PNNL's science and technology capabilities to address critical challenges in science, energy, the environment and national security. The academy acknowledged him for both his research accomplishments, and his scientific leadership in computational science. His research achievements include developing scalable numerical methods and software for the modeling of real-world challenges-such as groundwater contamination-on parallel computing systems. He has been an advocate for computational science through various professional society activities, including organizing a now-biannual technical conference and founding the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Ted Bowyer
Bowyer is a PNNL Lab Fellow and manager of the laboratory's Nuclear Explosion Monitoring and Policy program. He is acknowledged internationally for his groundbreaking research and development of new methods and systems to detect the signatures of nuclear weapons material production and nuclear detonations. He has served as a scientific advisor on issues related to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization; and as an advisor to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.S. State Department, the National Academy of Sciences and at the Conference on Disarmament.
Allison Campbell
Campbell is the director of EMSL, DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab, a national scientific user facility located at PNNL. EMSL provides integrated experimental and computational resources to in excess of 700 scientists from around the world each year for discovery and technological innovation in the environmental molecular sciences. This includes support for advancements in terrestrial ecosystem science, energy materials and processes, biosystem design and aerosol science. She is nationally acknowledged for her individual research efforts in the field of biomaterials, including co-inventing a process for producing biologically-compatible coatings for the surface of artificial joint implants that reduce the risk of rejection and extend the life of the implant.
Ruby Leung
Leung is a PNNL Lab Fellow and an internationally acknowledged leader in regional climate modeling. Her innovative research on modeling regional climate change and its impacts guides national policy makers on decisions relating to water, agriculture, energy, public health and national security. She has organized key workshops sponsored by environmental agencies, served on panels that define future priorities in climate modeling and hydroclimate research, and has developed regional climate models that are used globally.
Tags: Energy, Environment, Fundamental Science, Computational Science, National Security, EMSL, Awards and Recognizes, Climate Change, Aerosols, Nuclear Nonproliferation
EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab, is a national scientific user facility sponsored by the D.O.E.'s Office of Science. Located at Pacific Northwest National Lab in Richland, Wash., EMSL offers an open, collaborative environment for scientific discovery to researchers around the world. Its integrated computational and experimental resources enable researchers to realize important scientific insights and create new technologies. Follow EMSL on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Interdisciplinary teams at Pacific Northwest National Lab address many of America's most pressing issues in energy, the environment and national security through advances in basic and applied science. Founded in 1965, PNNL employs 4,400 staff and has an yearly budget of in excess of $1 billion. It is managed by Battelle for the D.O.E.. For more information, visit the PNNL News Center, or follow PNNL on Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Twitter.
