SBU Geosciences Professors in Consortium Supporting Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Education

Timothy Glotch

Stony Brook University professors Timothy Glotch and A. Deanne Rogers are part of one of two consortia that recently received $50 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation to support the basic science that underlies its nuclear security and nonproliferation missions.

The Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation (ETI) 2.0 - including 12 universities and 12 national labs, led by Georgia Tech and including Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) - received a $25 million award to advance technologies across three core disciplines: data science and digital technologies in nuclear security and nonproliferation, precision environmental analysis for enhanced nuclear nonproliferation vigilance and emergency response, and emerging technologies.

"What we're trying to do is bring those emergent technologies that are not implemented right now to fruition," said Anna Erickson, Woodruff Professor and associate chair for research in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, who leads both DOE/NSSA grants. "We want to understand what's ahead in the future for both the technology and the threats, which will help us determine how we can address it today."

A. Deanne Rogers

"We're excited to team with Georgia Tech and other universities as part of the ETI 2.0 consortium," said Glotch, professor in the Department of Geosciences in Stony Brook's College of Arts and Sciences. "This partnership provides a wonderful opportunity to develop advanced remote sensing techniques applied to nuclear nonproliferation efforts."

Collaborators in the ETI 2.0 consortium include Abilene Christian University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, the Colorado School of Mines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

National lab partners are BNL, the Argonne National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Nevada National Security Site, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Savannah River National Laboratory.

The two consortia, led by Georgia Tech and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville will each receive up to $5 million per year for five years. "These consortia are critical to the of future of NNSA's nuclear security and nonproliferation research and development work," said Jeff Chamberlin, head of NNSA's nonproliferation efforts. "Once they develop a concept, the national laboratories can iterate and test its capabilities until it's ready for the private sector to adopt. I am confident these teams led by the University of Tennessee and Georgia Tech are up to the challenge and will make outstanding contributions to our field."

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