The Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) was established by Congress in 1996 to develop and fund a targeted long-term basic research program that will result in transformational or breakthrough approaches for solving the Departments environmental problems. The EMSP is a partnership between the DOE Office of Science and the Office of Environmental Management The Program provides competitively awarded funds to research projects that seek to develop the scientific understanding that could reduce remediation risks, costs, or schedules, and help solve currently intractable problems. As such, the EMSP supports research that helps fulfill of the following objectives:

• Provide scientific knowledge that will revolutionize technologies and clean-up approaches to significantly reduce future costs, schedules, and risks
• Bridge the gap between very fundamental research that has wide-ranging applicability needs-driven applied technology development that is conducted by the Office of Environmental Management
• Focus the Nation’s science infrastructure on critical DOE environmental management problems.

Details on the program scope, accomplishments, and activities can be found on the EMSP website

Program Manager

Dr. Roland Hirsch
Environmental Remediation Sciences Division
Office of Biological and Environmental Research
SC-23.4/Germantown Building
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20585-1290
e-mail: Roland.Hirsch@science.doe.gov
Phone: (301) 903-9009
Fax: (301) 903-4154

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