The Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) held its 2003 Principal Investigators' Workshop on May 6th - 7th, 2003, at the William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA. Over 210 people attended the workshop. In addition to EMSP investigators and program managers, the attendees included site cleanup contractors and managers, state and federal regulators, and local stakeholders. The purpose of the workshop was to encourage information exchange between EMSP investigators and DOE Hanford Site personnel dealing with issues related to high-level waste, vadose zone contamination, and groundwater remediation. These scientific themes, which are a subset of the topics covered by the EMSP research portfolio, match the major ongoing Hanford Site activities to retrieve, pre-treat, and process high level waste; prevent vadose zone contaminants from moving to ground water; and remediate mobile plumes of contaminated groundwater. The workshop provided an opportunity for the attendees to assess research plans and progress, with the dual goals of helping focus the research on key science and technology issues and needs at the Hanford Site, and identifying key products of the research that would be useful for the Hanford cleanup effort. The Workshop agenda and copies of all presentations are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.pnl.gov/emsp/ The Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) was established by Congress in 1996 to develop and fund a targeted long-term basic research program that will result in transformational or breakthrough approaches for solving the Departments environmental problems. The EMSP is a partnership between the DOE Office of Science and the Office of Environmental Management. The Program provides competitively awarded funds to research projects that seek to develop the scientific understanding that could reduce remediation risks, costs, or schedules, and help solve currently intractable problems. Program Contact: Roland Hirsch

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