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Science Accelerating Girls’ Engagement (SAGE) aims to broaden gender diversity in STEM fields by connecting high school students with STEM professionals. The third annual SAGE summer camp took offered a week packed with Laboratory tours, career talks, job shadowing, professional growth workshops, hands-on projects and bonding experiences.

NREL’s National Wind Technology Center hosted 36 interns for the summer. The Leading Edge caught up with six of those interns to learn about their work, achievements, and hopes for the future.

As the world moves towards renewable energy

renewable energy

Renewable energy comes from unlimited, naturally replenished resources, such as the sun, tides, and wind. Renewable energy can be used for electricity generation, space and water heating and cooling, and transportation.

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sources in pursuit of decarbonization, one of the principal methods being implemented is hydropower.

hydropower

One of the oldest and largest sources of renewable energy, which uses the natural flow of moving water to generate electricity

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The ability to generate electrical power using falling water to turn a turbine will continue to play a major role in clean energy production.

What populates Alabama’s William Bankhead National Forest? Trees might be the first thing that come to mind—or maybe deer. But a lot of sophisticated scientific instruments are joining the natural forest occupants thanks to a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research facility being set up there to study connections between the forest and atmosphere.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and collaborators took another significant step to improve offshore wind forecasting that will lower risk and cost associated with offshore wind energy development and help the nation reach its wind energy goals.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2024 solicitation 2 cycle. Applications are due on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. ET.

In a new study assessing how climate change

climate change

A change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over a long period of time.

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might alter hydropower generation across the continental United States, researchers show that except for some parts of the Southwest, hydropower generation is expected to rise in the future.

Debjani Singh, a senior scientist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, specializes in water resources, data science, and earth science.

earth science

The study of the Earth's structure, properties, processes, and four and a half billion years of biotic evolution.

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Her expertise makes her the perfect lead for the HydroSource project, where she uses data science to tackle complex water resource management challenges.

Though 2023 was a relatively slow year for new wind power deployment in the United States, the industry continues to see growth, solid performance, expanding supply chains, and attractive prices, according to a report prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Imagine having to do your job, but not being able to visually process the data right in front of you. Nearly 8% of genetic males and 0.5% of genetic females have some form of color vision deficiency (CVD), or the decreased ability to discern between particular colors. CVD is commonly referred to as color blindness.

The 2024 Summer Physics Camp for Young Women, held from June 10-21 at New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe, served 34 students from 15 different school districts. Now in its eighth year, the camp offered free residential accommodations for the first time, allowing for a broader range of participants.

The historic May 2015 flood event in Texas and Oklahoma, caused by intense mesoscale convective systems

mesoscale convective system (MCS)

A collection of thunderstorms that act as a system. An MCS can spread across an entire state and may appear as a solid line, a broken line, or a cluster of cells that can last more than 12 hours.

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(MCSs) that brought record rainfall and $3 billion in damage, was recently studied using detailed models to understand how such heavy rains occurred.