APPENDIX K -- Mission Statement
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
The Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, operated by the University of California for the Department of Energy, provide national scientific leadership[ and technological innovation through its mission to:
- Perform leading multidisciplinary research in the energy sciences, general
sciences, and biosciences in a manner that ensures employee and public safety
and the protection of the environment;
- Develop and operate unique national experimental facilities that are
available to qualified investigators: The Advanced Light Source, National
Center for Electron Microscopy, 88-Inch Cyclotron, Bevelac, and National
Tritium Labeling Facility;
- Educate and train future generations of scientists and engineers;
- Transfer knowledge and technological innovations and foster productive relationships between LBL research programs, universities, and industry.
Implementation of this mission supports the fundamental and applied research and development (R&D) goals of the National Energy Strategy, integrates the environment, safety, and health goals with the research programs, and strengthens DOE's national efforts for science education and technology transfer. Core LBL research areas in support of the mission are:
Energy Sciences:
- Chemical Sciences - chemical physics and the dynamics of chemical reactions;
structure and reactivity of transmit species; electron spectroscopy; surface
chemistry and catalysis; chemistry of the actinide elements; and atomic
physics.
- Earth Sciences - structure, composition, and dynamics of the earth's
substance; geophysical imaging methods; chemical and physical transport in
geologic systems; isotopic geochemistry; and physiochemical press
investigations.
- Energy and Environment - building energy efficiency; environmental effects of
technology; energy storage and distribution; fossil-energy conversion; industry
and utility energy use; and national and international energy policy studies.
- Materials Science - advanced ceramic, metallic, polymeric, magnetic, biological and semi- and super-conducting materials for catalytic, electronic, optical, magnetic, structure, and specialty application; exploration of low-dimensional materials; development and use of instrumentation including spectroscopies, electron microscopy, x-ray optics, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and analytical tools for ultrafast processes and surface analysis.
General Sciences:
- Accelerator and Fusion Research - fundamental accelerator physics research,
accelerator design and operation, advanced accelerator technology development,
accelerator and ion-source research for heavy-ion fusion and magnetic fusion,
and construction of the Advanced Light Source.
- Nuclear Science - relativistic heavy-ion physics, medium- and low-energy
nuclear physics, nuclear theory, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear chemistry,
studies of transuranium elements, nuclear-data evaluation, and detector
development.
- Physics - experimental and theoretical particle physics, advanced detector development, particle data base for the high-energy physics community, astrophysics, and applied mathematics.
Biosciences:
- Life Sciences - gene expression, molecular genetics and human genome studies,
cellular differentiation and carcinogenesis, hematopoiesis, macromolecular
structure, DNA repair and recombination, nuclear medicine, diagnostic and
functional imaging, radiation biology, radiotherapy, and radiosurgery.
- Structural Biology - structural and molecular biology of nucleic acids and proteins, genetics and mechanisms of photosynthesis, photochemistry, and mechanisms of mutagenesis.
Resources and Operations:
- Engineering - engineering design, planning, and concept development; shops
and technical support for scientific programs and research facilities; advanced
accelerator components; electronic and mechanical instrumentation systems; and
fabrication of detectors and experimental systems.
- Environment. Health and Safety - technical support for safety and
environmental protections; radiation associated with accelerator technology;
advanced dosimeters; dispersion of radionuclides; and waste management.
- Information and Computing Sciences - advanced software engineering; information management; scientific imaging and visualization tools; computation tools for the human genome project, and biostatistics.
The Laboratory benefits from its close working relationship with the University of California at Berkeley and other universities, national laboratories, and industrial institutions.
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