ORNL water resources engineer Carly Hansen studies how existing non-powered dams could also support hydropower without disrupting their current purposes.
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists will lead nine and contribute to an additional 30 projects of the Genesis Mission, which aims to transform science in the U.S.
Caleigh Samuels of ORNL has received the 2026 Elda E. Anderson Award from the Health Physics Society for her research excellence and contributions to radiation protection.
ARM is modernizing its data center with AI-ready computing, storage, and software infrastructure to make its 30+ years of atmospheric data easier and faster for researchers to access and analyze.
An ORNL AI model can accurately predict river temperatures across the U.S., even in waterways without sensors. The system achieves about a 1.1°C median error and can estimate temperatures for all river reaches nationwide.
A region rich in natural resources took centerstage recently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s third Appalachian Carbon Forum in Morgantown, West Virginia, where leaders in nuclear energy, critical materials and infrastructure exchanged ideas.
Scott DeNeale is a water resources engineer whose work at ORNL’s Water Power Program centers on how hydropower research can be applied to water-energy systems.
Lianhong Gu, distinguished staff scientist in the Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA).
ORNL has launched a novel robotic platform to rapidly analyze plant root systems as they grow, yielding AI-ready data to accelerate the development of stress-tolerant crops for new fuels, chemicals and materials.
Giri Prakash, lead for the Earth System Informatics and Data Discovery Section at ORNL, has been elevated to senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.