Story Tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory March 2011
Oak Ridge National LaboratoryA project called the Scalable, Efficient, and Accurate Community Ice Sheet Model, or SEACISM, aims to use state-of-the-art simulation to predict the behavior of ice sheets under a changing climate. A process called gasification can turn carbonaceous fuels into syngas, a cleaner-burning fuel mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Alerts from an early warning system developed in part by DOE's ORNL could help protect forests across the U.S. from the threats of insects, disease and wildfire.