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.
Building on ORNL’s legacy in health physics, Caleigh Samuels uses AI to modernize radiation dosimetry models. Her work provides federal agencies with the accurate data needed to strengthen nuclear safety.
Peter Thornton, a Corporate Fellow and head of the Earth Systems Science Section at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
ORNL’s Biological Monitoring and Abatement Program, or BMAP, is marking 40 years of helping steward the DOE’s 33,476 acres of land on which some of the nation’s most powerful science and technology missions are carried out.
Phong Le is a computational hydrologist at ORNL who is putting his skills in hydrology, numerical modeling, machine learning and high-performance computing to work quantifying water-related risks for humans and the environment.