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A -- LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY SEEKS PARTNERS IN EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES TECHNOLOGIES SOL IPO-96-140. Contact Melissa Miller, MS C331, Los Alamos, NM 87554, TEL: (505) 665-5377, FAX: (505) 667-0603, Email: mami@lanl.gov. The University of California which operates the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) under contract to the Department of Energy (DOE) wishes to establish partnership agreements with private industry to focus on national and international initiatives of mutual benefit in Earth and Environmental Sciences. The objective of these ventures is to pursue and develop business opportunities utilizing Sciences. The objective of these ventures is to pursue and develop business opportunities utilizing LANL and private industry; however, any teaming arrangements will be subject to availability of LANL resources and unique talent. Any company interested in pursuing LANL teaming opportunities should respond with a letter of interest briefly describing the companies technical expertise; national and international business markets pending; estimates of existing national and international earth and environmental science market shares; and identify innovative approaches to partnerships with LANL. Opportunities that seem to be a good match between LANL and private industry will then be discussed in detail after proprietary information agreements are executed. The letter of interest must be received within thirty days from the date of this notice. An annotated list of FEES Division Capabilities includes: (1) Geology and Geochemistry: geologic characterization, rock-water interactions, volcanic systems, geothermal exploration, surface processes. (2) Geophysics: national defense applications of seismology (discrimination, regionalization, field experiments), underground structure detection, hydrology. (3) Geoengineering: civilian seismology applications (rock mass imaging, reservoir, flow-path imaging), nonlinear acoustics, borehole instrumentation, drilling technology, hot dry rock reservoir engineering. (4) Geoanalysis: advanced computer modeling and applications (groundwater systems, oil and gas systems, geodynamics, climate and ocean, mesoscale and complex terrain system), lidar experiments and applications, atmospheric measurements, explosion phenomenology. (5) Nuclear Waste Management Research and Development: project management (Yucca Mountain and environmental restoration), volcanic risk assessment. (6) Environmental Science: ecological risk assessment, terrestrial ecological models, site-closure technology, post-closure monitoring, atmospheric radiation measurement systems, depleted uranium risk assessment. (7) Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics: geodynamic modeling, collaboration between LANL and universities with emphasis on applications for modeling the earth's atmosphere, oceans, and mantle. The statement of interest must be dated within 30 days from the date of this notice. (136)

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