EMSL Collaboratory
Development of the EMSL Collaboratory is a symmetric collaboration among computer scientists, domain scientists (physical and biological sciences), and sociologists. It is based in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a US Department of Energy (DOE) national scientific user facility located on the PNNL campus. The Collaboratory relies on the development of new communications technologies—shared computer displays, electronic notebooks, virtual reality collaboration spaces—and an integration of these technologies with current video conferencing and email capabilities.
The Collaboratory concept has the potential to greatly benefit the DOE and the scientific community in general by expanding the resources available to individual researchers, increasing the efficiency of our research system, and aligning basic and applied research efforts more closely with national goals.