Versions of this technology are being provided to the U.S. Navy and Army to support their bioresponse units. CAPS is accepted by Department of Defense customers as a valuable counterproliferation planning tool for analyzing a country's proliferation activities, determining the function of suspected sites, and identifying critical processing steps or facilities which, if denied, would prevent acquisition of weapons of mass destruction. The FY 1998 goal was achieved with more than 20.9 million base pairs sequenced, a tenfold increase over FY 1997 efforts. The JGI continues to step up the production schedule, relying on high-throughput microchannel sequencing instrumentation developed by Livermore. Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Global Climate Models Lawrence Livermore has improved the physics in codes and developed powerful new models that treat the atmosphere and oceans as a coupled system.
Results are in closer agreement with observed regional temperature trends.
In 1998, Livermore physicist Benjamin Santer , lead author of a key chapter of the United Nations report on climate change, was named a MacArthur Fellow . Accelerated Groundwater Cleanup We have developed and demonstrated methods to greatly accelerate groundwater cleanup at the Livermore site. In 1998, these remediation technologies were used at a Superfund site in Visalia, California. The 1998 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Stanford Professor Robert Laughlin , an associate at Lawrence Livermore for 17 years.