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In the race to identify solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are joining the fight by applying expertise in computational science, advanced manufacturing, data science and neutron science.
![Ethan Coon uses math and computational science to model the flow of above and belowground water in watersheds.](/sites/default/files/styles/list_page_thumbnail/public/2019-09/2019-P08054_0.jpg?h=036a71b7&itok=yayKqImm)
As a computational hydrologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Ethan Coon combines his talent for math with his love of coding to solve big science questions about water quality, water availability for energy production, climate change, and the