# Presentation: 354171

## Slide 1

## J. Michael Kuperberg
Acting Division Director
Environmental Remediation Sciences Division
DOE, Office of Science, OBER

*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

## What you have accomplished this year!

- Joe Wang, Arizona State University
- 2006 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Electrochemistry
- Darsh Wasan, Illinois Institute of Technology
- 2005 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)
- 2006 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

## 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

## 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

## 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

## 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!)

## 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

## ERSP Strategic Plan

## 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

## 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 relevantcontaminant 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)

## 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”

## ERSD Budget history

**(President’s request)**

## What’s next?

- Review and fund proposals
- Fall PI meeting
- Fall 2006 “Field research”October 22-25 @ Oak Ridge
- Plans for future PI meetings
- Spring and Fall meetings
- Topics will vary
- Spring 2007 topic TBA @ Airlie House

## 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!

**Thank you!**