two PNNL scientists gain Early Career Research Awards
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Category: ResearchType: News
Source: PNNL
Date: Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
May 11, 2011 
D.O.E. awards 5-year research grants
RICHLAND, Wash. - 2 scientists from the D.O.E.'s Pacific Northwest National Lab will gain Early Career Research Awards from D.O.E. to advance research involving underground contamination and computer modeling. Each researcher will gain grants totaling $2.5 million over 5 years.
The 2 PNNL awardees are:
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Matthew Marshall, who will use the grant to study microbial biofilms, which are large communities of bacteria growing on other surfaces. Learning more about the chemical composition of microbial biofilms could also enhance understanding of how contaminants are transported underground.
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Alexandre Tartakovsky, who will use the grant to develop new, simplified models to simulate complex molecular processes on powerful supercomputers. The goal is to enhance computer modeling, which is widely used in scientific research, so that larger problems can be simulated faster and more accurately.
They are among 65 researchers who were selected this year from a pool of about 1,150 applicants.
The Early Career Research Plan is designed to bolster the nation's scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early years, when many scientists do their most formative work. The Plan is funded by DOE's Office of Science.
To be eligible for an award, a researcher must have received a doctorate within the past ten years and be an untenured, tenure-track assistant or associate professor at a U.S. academic institution or a full-time employee at a D.O.E. national laboratory.
For more information about the Plan and the research it supports, go to the Early Career Research Plan website at http://science.energy.gov/early-career/.
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Pacific Northwest National Lab is a D.O.E. Office of Science national Lab where interdisciplinary teams advance science and technology and deliver solutions to America's most intractable problems in energy, the environment and national security. PNNL employs 4,900 staff, has an yearly budget of nearly $1.1 billion, and has been managed by Ohio-based Battelle since the lab's inception in 1965. Follow PNNL on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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