OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY

Abrupt Climate Change Focus Of U.S. National Laboratories
(Science Daily) (Sep. 18, 2008) — Through its Climate Change Prediction Program, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research recently launched IMPACTS – Investigation of the Magnitudes and Probabilities of Abrupt Climate Transitions – a program led by William Collins of Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division...Other IMPACTS researchers including ESD’s William Riley and Margaret Torn, plus Mac Post from Oak Ridge National Lab and Qianlai Zhuang from Purdue University, will add significant new capabilities to the Community Land Model (CLM) component of CCSM....9/18

Governor Bredesen, Former Senator Baker Headline Tennessee Energy Summit
(Manufacturing & Technology eJournal) Gov. Phil Bredesen, former Sen. Howard Baker, and the University of Tennessee’s Baker Center for Public Policy will host the first-ever Governor’s Summit on Clean Energy Technology Oct. 14-15 at the Knoxville Convention Center....9/18

LOCAL DOE:

Cleaning up ORNL & Y-12
(Atomic City Underground) Steve McCracken, DOE's environmental manager in Oak Ridge, said the dispute resolution recently achieved by DOE, EPA and the Tennessee Dept. of Environment and Conservation will ultimately make the cleanup program better in Oak Ridge....9/18

UT:

UT candidate touts value of planning
(Knoxville News Sentinel) Howard C. Johnson, the fourth of five candidates for the job of chancellor at the Knoxville campus drew questions about budgets, UT's role in the community, and campus environmental initiatives....9/19