July 15 marked the very hot start to a scientific campaign focused on just that - HEAT. Over two weeks, a team of scientists from Argonne - in collaboration with university researchers, community members, and students - will embed themselves in the neighborhoods down Roosevelt Road and south to Woodlawn to understand how Chicago's built environment influences heat. It's an effort known as CROCUS Urban Canyon - https://lnkd.in/dWeSK2Tq The research team will collect data and gain insights that will provide local communities with greater knowledge to implement climate-resilient strategies. The team's insights will also inform new climate models, which are essential to accurately predicting weather. Armed with precise, localized data, policymakers and residents will be better equipped to mitigate the effects of climate change – things like heat islands and poor air quality – thus improving the well-being of neighborhoods throughout Chicago. The research team is helping shift the paradigm on how we conduct climate research and develop sustainable, climate-resilient cities.
Argonne National Laboratory
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Lemont, IL 99,874 followers
A DOE lab, we deliver science and tech solutions to energy, climate change, environmental, and nat. security challenges.
About us
Argonne National Laboratory, one of the U.S. Department of Energy's national laboratories for science and engineering research, employs 3,400 employees, including 1,400 scientists and engineers, three-quarters of whom hold doctoral degrees. Argonne's annual operating budget of around $1 billion supports upwards of 200 research projects. Since 1990, Argonne has worked with more than 600 companies and numerous federal agencies and other organizations. Argonne's mission is to apply a unique mix of world-class science, engineering and user facilities to deliver innovative research and technologies. We create new knowledge that addresses the most important scientific and societal needs of our nation. We actively seek opportunities to work with industry to transfer our technologies to the marketplace through licensing, joint research and many other collaborative relationships. Argonne is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. We are located on 1,500 acres (6.9 sq. km) in southwest DuPage County, Illinois 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Chicago. The site is completely encircled by the beautiful Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve.
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https://www.anl.gov/
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- Research Services
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- Lemont, IL
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- 1946
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- Energy, Science, Technology, Environment, Security, National Laboratory, Engineering, and User Facilities
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Lemont, IL 60439, US
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9700 S Cass Ave
Lemont, IL 60439, US
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Over 30 years after securing a post-doctoral appointment at Argonne, Sergey Chemerisov has continued to employ his scientific knowledge and engineering know-how at the lab, managing accelerator operations while conducting research across radiation chemistry, nuclear medicine, semiconductor materials, and more - https://bit.ly/3W3bXqB
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Laura Boon, technical facilities and systems specialist at Argonne, helped prepare for the Advanced Photon Source (APS) Upgrade by working on important review processes across the facility. Now that reviews are done and commissioning of the new machine has begun, Boon’s expertise has been put to work across campus – https://bit.ly/46j4bxT
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Congratulations to our partners and team at Argonne who worked on this project!
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FASST is a bold new initiative that will enable scientific discoveries like never before. Learn more about Argonne's groundbreaking AI research at www.anl.gov/ai #ai
The speed and scale at which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing requires investment in a strategic capability now. This week, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled a new initiative to continue securing U.S. leadership in #ArtificialIntelligence. DOE’s Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security, and Technology (FASST) initiative leverages DOE’s research and technical infrastructure to deliver key assets for the national interest, including scientific discovery through our 17 national laboratories, advancing national security, and addressing energy challenges. FASST will build the world's most powerful integrated scientific #AI systems through four key interconnected pillars: AI-ready data, frontier-scale computing platforms, safe, secure and trustworthy models, and AI applications for science, energy and national security. Learn more: energy.gov/FASST
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To produce more accurate models for weather forecasting, scientists at UCLA and Argonne have begun to investigate large AI models, known as foundation models, which can generate predictions at a fraction of the current computational cost – https://bit.ly/4f019Co
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Argonne will support three innovative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven science projects as part of the first round of awards from the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot - https://bit.ly/45QbhcJ The NAIRR Pilot aims to provide researchers and students with expanded access to key AI resources and data. NAIRR’s ultimate goal is to develop a shared national research infrastructure that will help advance safe, secure, and trustworthy AI for science.
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Three Argonne postdocs have earned invitations to the highly prestigious Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau, Germany, where they will network with past Nobel Prize winners in their field of physics - https://bit.ly/3xJuss8 Khushi Bhatt, Soham Saha, and Nirupama Sensharma earned their invitations to Lindau through a rigorous selection process in which they had to describe the nature of their work and what they hoped to contribute to the meeting. They were selected out of thousands of competitive applicants from around the globe to network with the brightest and most accomplished physicists in the world.
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Due to worldwide computing outages, Argonne has suspended onsite operations today, Friday, July 19, 2024. Learn more - https://lnkd.in/dzbzMebQ
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Brandon Pope is developing and facilitating educational outreach programs that connect K-12 students to the research at Argonne - https://bit.ly/4cs1FHv “We know there are many students who may not be aware of opportunities at Argonne,” says Pope, STEM education outreach coordinator. “We make efforts to increase the diversity of participants by proactively reaching out to these audiences." Learn more to find out how he bridges the gap between communities and opportunities in science.