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November 12, 2009
WSU-TC
Tri-Cities Research District
Gary Spanner
Research District

November 10, 2009
Shilo Inn, Richland
Building Owners & Managers Association
Gary Spanner
Tri-Cities Research District

November 5, 2009
Renton City Hall
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Mike Schwenk
The Economic Impact of Technology and Innovation in Washington State

October 19, 2009
American Safari Boat
American Safari Participants
Roy Gephart
Hanford's Manhattan Project history

October 16, 2009
WSU-TC
WSU-TC Nuclear Engineering Seminar Series
Cheryl Thornhill
TBD

October 13, 2009
Red Lion Richland, Hanford House
Richland Rotary
Tom Thomas
Computer Security

October 2, 2009
Washington State University Tri-Cities
WSU Nuclear Engineering Seminar
Bill Richmond
Design of the Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility

September 23, 2009
Three Rivers Convention Center, Kennewick
Migration 2009
John Zachara
Hanford Site Contamination Issues

September 23, 2009
Doubletree Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Jud Virden
Keynote Lunch Speaker on Energy

September 22, 2009
Doubletree Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Jun Liu
Advanced Carbon Materials for Next Generation Energy Storage

September 22, 2009
Doubletree Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Ward TeGrotenhuis
Microtechnology for Energy Applications

September 22, 2009
Doubletree Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Bob Wegeng,
Microtechnologies for Energy Conversion

September 22, 2009
Doubletree Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Yuehe Lin
Overview of Bioconjugation at the Nanoscale

September 22, 2009
Doubletree Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Zhiwen Tang,
Biofunctionalization of Graphene for Biosensing and Imaging

September 22, 2009
Doubletree Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Terry Hendricks and Shankar Krishnan
Enhancement of Pool Boiling Heat Transfer using Nanostructured Surfaces on Aluminum, Copper and Silicon

September 20, 2009
Three Rivers Convention Center
Migration 2009
Roy Gephart
History and Environmental Issues at Hanford

September 18, 2009
Three Rivers Convention Center
Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases Continuing Medical Education Workshop
Roy Gephart
Hanford waste generation and release history

September 14, 2009
Washington, DC
2nd Annual Carbon Capture and Sequestration Conference
Jim Dooley
Carbon Capture and Sequestration

September 14, 2009
Oklahoma City, OK
National Assn. of Seed and Venture Funds (NASVF)
Cheryl Cejka
Innovation and Capital

August 19, 2009
Granny's Buffet, Kennewick
Kiwanis Club of the Columbia
Greg Curtis
Terrorism

August 16, 2009
Walter E. Washington Convention Center,Washington DC , Room 152B
Woman and Entrepreneurship/ACS National Meeting
Cheryl Cejka
Innovation and IP Panel and Q & A Developing potential Intellectual Property (IP) is the easy part, convincing people to patent it and help commercialize it is something else. You get what you negotiate! Experts in IP, technology transfer and negoti

July 29, 2009
Leo's Catering, 20 N. Auburn, Kennewick
Pasco Kennewick Rotary
Mike Kluse
The Future of PNNL

July 14, 2009
Washington, DC
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Meeting
Mike Davis
Electric Grid

July 7, 2009
Battelle Auditorium
Science and Engineering Education Seminar Series
Leonard Bond
Energy Futures: impacts of the new energy economy

June 26, 2009
Dayton, WA
Dayton Chamber of Commerce
Gary Spanner
Technology Assistance Program at PNNL

June 25, 2009
Columbia Basin College, Pasco, Washington
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Conference
Ann Wright-Mockler
Understanding STEM

June 24, 2009
Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Conference
Karen Wieda and Shannon Goodwin
Bring Me a Rock & get the dirt on soil!

June 23, 2009
Battelle Auditorium
Science and Engineering Education Seminar Series
Roy Gephart
History and Environmental Lessons Learned at Hanford

May 27, 2009
Leo's Catering
Pasco-Kennewick Rotary
Cameron Andersen
PNNL Camera Security System

May 13, 2009
Consolidated Information Center Room 216 (on WSU-TC Campus)
Tri-Cities Research District Speaker Series
Mitchell Horowitz, VP Tech Transfer Consulting, Battelle
Characteristics of successful research parks

April 16, 2009
Battelle Auditorium, starting at 4:30 p.m.
Herbert M. Parker Foundation Spring 2009 Lecture
Bruce Napier
Russia's Hanford: What We Have Learned

April 9, 2009
Bellevue, WA
Washington's Innovation Summit 2009
Mike Schwenk
Innovating to Sustain our Future

April 8, 2009
Richland Red Lion
Mid-Columbia Leadership Development Association, National Management Association
Mike Schlender
Leadership Development

April 7, 2009
ETB Spokane River Room from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Association of the Advancement of Cost Engineering International
Michael Kintner-Meyer
Electrification of Transportation: What are the benefits and impacts and when can I buy an electric vehicle?

April 1, 2009
Shilo Inn, Richland
American Society for Quality, Local Chapter
Mike Schwenk
Innovation, Cutting-edge Technology and Utilizing Quality Tools and Techniques in an Ever-Changing Work Environment

March 26, 2009
Everett, WA
Everett Chamber of Commerce
Mike Schwenk
"Innovation, economics, and all that jazz..."

March 23, 2009
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Auditorium
Frontiers in Biological Sciences Seminar Series
Dr. Birgitte Ahring, Director, Center for Bioproducts and Bioenergy
Making Second-Generation Biofuels from Biomass Materials: Current Status and Future Perspectives

March 23, 2009
Leo's Catering
Kennewick Kiwanis
Greg Curtis
Terrorism and the Public Today

March 20, 2009
Pullman, WA
Pullman Chamber of Commerce
Mike Schwenk
Technology Innovation in the State of WA

March 6, 2009
Clarion Hotel, Richland
Tri-Cities Industry Kiwanis Group
Deidre Holmberg and Phil Ohl
Delta High School

March 5, 2009
WSU-TC East Auditorium from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Tri-Cities Research District Speaker Series
Phillip Singerman, B&D Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Attaining Federal Funding for Building a Research Park

March 4, 2009
Lampson Building, Kennewick
Benton-Franklin Mainstream Republicans
Mike Schwenk
Laboratory Overview focusing on benefits to the community and state

February 27, 2009
Washington State University-Tri-Cities
WSU Seminar Series
Darrell Fisher
Medical Isotopes Production and Use

February 27, 2009
Salt Lake City, UT
Annual Meeting-Engineering the Alternative Energy Debate
Mike Davis
Renewable Energy and Our Nation's Energy Infrastructure Going Forward

February 27, 2009
Rotary Club of Tri-Cities Sunrise
Red Lion Hotel, Pasco
Deidre Holmberg
Delta High School

February 5, 2009
Kennewick
Columbia Center Rotary
Deidre Holmberg and Phil Ohl
Delta High School

January 30, 2009
Washington State University-Tri-Cities
WSU Seminar Series
Jim Buelt
Commercial and Weapons Related Waste Disposal

January 26, 2009
Tempe, AZ
International Economic Development Council
Mike Schwenk
Technology and Innovation

January 22, 2009
Red Lion Hotel Pasco
Pasco Kiwanis
Greg Curtis
Terrorism and the Public Today

January 15, 2009
Video Conference
Students at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Mn
Roy Gephart
Environmental Issues and the Hanford Site

January 14, 2009
Olympia, WA
Senate Environment, Water, and Energy Committee
Carl Imhoff
Smart Grid and Power Suppy/Demand/Reliability

January 14, 2009
WSU-TC East Auditorium
Tri-Cities Research District
Ron Kysiak, Northwestern University
Involving municipanities for greater success in building a research park

January 12, 2009
Hanford High School
Hanford High students
Greg Curtis
Economic Espionage

December 18, 2008
Big Bend Community College Moses Lake, WA
Grant County Economic Development Council
Mike Schwenk
The State of Innovation and Technology development in Washington State.

December 1, 2008
Battelle Auditorium
Public Event
Dr. James Conca, Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center
Presenation and book signing. He is co-author of the book, "THE GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY: Achieving a Just and Sustainable Energy Distribution by 2040"

November 24, 2008
Infinia, Kennewick, WA
US Senator Cantwell's Clean Energy Roundtable
Mike Davis
Clean Energy Technology and its effects on the Economy.

November 19, 2008
Red Lion Columbia Center
Chamber Network Tri-Cities Membership Luncheon
Mike Kluse and Deidra Holmberg
STEM High School

November 19, 2008
EMSL 1075-PNNL
Hanford Site Contractors
Gary Spanner
Innovation Partnership Zone

November 19, 2008
Washington, D.C.
9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies
Jim Dooley
Issues forum on “The View From Wall Street,” in this session, panelists will explore how the carbon capture and sequestration scientific community can address the needs of the financial community, which will strongly influence how these CCS technologies a

November 19, 2008
Washington, D.C.
9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies
Casie Davidson
• “Assessing the Impacts of Future Demand for Saline Groundwater on Commercial-scale Deployment of CCS in the United States,”

November 19, 2008
Washington, D.C.
9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies
Jim Dooley
“Tipping Fees Can’t Save Us from the Tipping Point: The Need to Create Durable, Rational Approaches to Risk Management that Motivate the Development and Adoption of Geologic CO2 Storage Best Practices,”

November 19, 2008
Washington, D.C.
9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies
Todd Schaef
Basalt-CO2-H2O Interactions and Variability in Carbon Mineralization Rate,”

November 18, 2008
Washington, D.C.
9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies
Marshall Wise
• “The Impact of Electric Passenger Transport Technology on the Demand for Coal-fired Power with CCS under a Climate Policy,”

November 18, 2008
Washington, D.C.
9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies
Pete McGrail
• “Water Reactivity in the Liquid and Supercritical CO2 Phase: Has Half the Story Been Neglected?”

November 17, 2008
Washington, D.C.
9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies
Jim Dooley
Comparing Existing Pipeline Networks with the Potential Scale of Future U.S. Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Networks,”

November 17, 2008
Washington, D.C.
9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies
Jim Dooley
• “Comparing Existing Pipeline Networks with the Potential Scale of Future U.S. Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Networks,” by Jim Dooley, JGCRI, 2:30 p.m. This session, titled “CCS at Scale,” is co-chaired by PNNL’s Edmonds.

November 17, 2008
Clover Island Inn
Horse Heaven Hills Kiwanis
Michael Kintner-Meyer
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles

November 17, 2008
Washington, D.C.
9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies
Robert Dahowski
• “A Preliminary Cost Curve Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Potential in China,”

November 13, 2008
WSU-TC/Consolidated Information Center Room 216
Tri-Cities Research District
Bill Dean, Piedmont Triad Research Park
Involving a major university when building a research park

November 12, 2008
CREHST Museum
CREHST Volunteers Monthly Meeting
Ted Poston
Impact to the River

November 10, 2008
Yakima, WA (Clarion Hotel)
Yakima Chamber of Commrce
Mike Schwenk
The State of Technology Innovation in the State of WA.

October 23, 2008
Pasco Red Lion Hotel
Pasco Kiwanis
Mike Lawrence
The Next Generation of Nuclear Power

October 15, 2008
Leo's Catering/Blue Moon Restaurant, Kennewick
Pasco-Kennewick Rotary
Jim Fast
PNNL Projects in Physics

October 9, 2008
Pasco Red Lion Hotel
Pasco Kiwanis
Deidre Holmberg
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) High School

October 7, 2008
Battelle Auditorium
Herbert M. Parker Foundation Fall Lecture
Dr. Fred A. Mettler, Chief of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the New Mexico Federal Regional Medical Center
Medical Radiation Exposure

September 26, 2008
WSU-TC, Room 256
WSU Nuclear Engineering Seminar Series
Leonard Bond
Energy Futures: Air, Water and Land Impacts

September 23, 2008
PNNL ETB Building
Nurse Practitioners
Doug McMakin
Intellifit Presentation and Scanning

September 16, 2008
TBD
Military Officers Association of America Lewis and Clark Chapter
Mike Lawrence
The Next Generation of Nuclear Power

September 12, 2008
Red Lion Pasco
Tri-Cities Sunrise Rotary
Mark Hevland
Radiation Portal Monitoring Program

September 10, 2008
Hilton Vancouver Washington
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Dan Palo
Emulsion-Based Nanomaterial Production Enabled by Continuous Flow Microstructured Devices

September 10, 2008
Hilton Vancouver Washington
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Mark E. Jones
Biological Fabrication of TiO2 Thin Fils for Solar Applications

September 9, 2008
Hilton Vancouver Washington
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Gayla Orr
Panel Member: Nanotechnology EHS Biological System Interactions

September 9, 2008
Hilton Vancouver Washington
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Landis Kannberg
Session Chair, Microscale Chemical and Energy Processes

September 9, 2008
Hilton Vancouver Washington
Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Wei Lu
Nano and Micro-engineered Adsorption Technologies for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Water Removal

August 27, 2008
Clarion Hotel, Richland
Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce
Suresh Baskaran
Energy, Transportation and Fuels

August 11, 2008
Albuquerque, NM
11th Annual Force Health Protection (FHP) Conference hosted by the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
Robert Brigantic
Simulation used to model the screening of passengers for pandemic influenza at U.S. airport ports of entry

July 16, 2008
Granny's Buffet, Kennewick
Columbia Kiwanis Club
Charlotte Sullivan
Potential for Sequestering Greenhouse Gasses in the Columbia Basin Basalts

June 18, 2008
Pasco
Water Power Dams Meeting
Dennis Dauble
Fish passage technology in the Columbia Basin

May 30, 2008
CBC Theatre and Observatory
Community Science & Technology Seminar Series
Roy Gephart, PNNL and Mike Durst, CBC
Astronomy

May 20, 2008
Shilo Inn, Richland
Military Officers Association of America Lewis and Clark Chapter
Patrick Kolbas
Efforts to Combat Nuclear Proliferation

May 16, 2008
The Rainier Club, Seattle
Tech Alliance
Mike Schwenk
Technology Investments

May 9, 2008
Red Lion Hotel-Wenatchee, WA
Fourth Annual Power UP! Electrifying Transportation Summit
Michael Kintner-Meyer
Plug-in hybrid vehicles

May 6, 2008
Salmon Summit
Elementary Students
George Last
Pacific Northwest Geology and Ice Age Floods

April 23, 2008
ETB Columbia River Room
Association of the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEi)
Jeff McCullough
Solid State Lighting (LEDs)

April 16, 2008
Tony Romas Banquet Room
Columbia Basin Chapter of the National Property Management Association
Greg Curtis
Economic Espionage

April 15, 2008
Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
Washington Technology Center Tech Summit '08
Rick Orth
Clean Technology Panel Member

April 15, 2008
Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
Washington Technology Center Tech Summit '08
Doug Lemon
Clean Energy and Technology Panel Member

April 15, 2008
Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
Washington State Technology Summit
Gary Spanner
Moderator for Panel Session

April 15, 2008
Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA
Washington State Technology Summit
Mark Smith
Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Panel Member

April 15, 2008
Red Lion Richland
Richland Rotary
Charlotte Sullivan
Ice Age Floods

April 11, 2008
Big Bend Community College, Moses Lake
Pacific Northwest Association for College Physics
Graham Parker
Changing the Energy Equation with New, Smart and More Efficient Technologies

April 9, 2008
The Moscone Center in San Francisco, California
RSA Conference 2008
Jim Thomas, Director NVAC
Security Information Visualization

March 28, 2008
WSU-TC – WEST 210/WSU-P – MURW 53
WSU NE Seminar Schedule
Edgar Buck
Geochemical Behavior of Nuclear Waste Forms

March 21, 2008
Spokane Club, Spokane, Washington
Spokane Discovery Series program
Andrea Copping
Climate Change and the impacts on the Pacific Northwest

March 18, 2008
Red Lion Richland
Richland Rotary
Gary Spanner
Tri-Cities Research District

March 7, 2008
New York, NY
Teaching and Learning Celebration
Mike Kluse, Interim Lab Director
STEM Initiatives

February 21, 2008
WSU-TC Student Lounge at 5:00 p.m.
Science Cafe
Roy Gephart
A Conversation on Hanford’s Past and Potential Futures

February 11, 2008
Florentyna's Restaurant, Pasco
Central Chapter of the WA Society of CPA's
Greg Curtis
Economic Espionage

February 2, 2008
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, British Columbia, Canada
Visual Analytics: Science and Application is an Exploratory Workshop
Jim Thomas, Director NVAC
Keynote: A Grand Challenge in Science: Turning Information Overload into the Opportunity of the Decade

January 28, 2008
Central Washington University
Foundations of Computer Science Class
Cara Giancola
Opportunities in Computer Science

January 24, 2008
Ruth Livingston Elementary School, Pasco
Science Extravaganza Night
Richard Arthur
Liquid Nitrogen Demonstration

January 24, 2008
EMSL 1075 from 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Public Seminar
Dr. Kathleen Richardson, Professor and Director, of the School of Materials Science & Engineering at Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
Optical Microsensor Array for Remote Sensing of Chemicals

January 23, 2008
TRAC, Pasco
TRIDEC Economic Outlook Forum
Mike Schwenk
Three Rivers Community Roundtable

January 16, 2008
Clarion Hotel, Richland
Richland Kiwanis
Gary Spanner
Economic Development

January 9, 2008
Leo's Catering, Kennewick
Pasco Kennewick Rotary
Bernie Beldin, Export Control
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Conducting Global Business: An Inside Look at Export Controls

December 17, 2007
Hanford High School
Hanford High Students
Greg Curtis
Economic Espionage Course

December 14, 2007
Richland High School
Richland High Students
Greg Curtis
Economic Espionage Course

November 29, 2007
Spokane, WA
Spokane Downtown Rotary
Gary Spanner
PNNL/Economic Development

November 8, 2007
Columbia Center Rotary meeting facility, Kennewick
Columbia Center Rotary
Bary Elison
Computer Security

October 23, 2007
The Davenport Hotel, Spokane, WA
Science Writers 2007 (CASW)
Pete McGrail
Carbon Management and Climate Change

October 23, 2007
The Davenport Hotel, Spokane, WA
Science Writers 2007 (CASW)
Benoit Mandelbrot
The economics of fractals

October 17, 2007
3 Rivers Convention Center
Leadership Tri-Cities
Gary Spanner
Tri-Cities Research District

October 16, 2007
Country Gentleman Restaurant
Lewis and Clark Chapter of The Military Officers Association of America
Greg Curtis
Economic Espionage

October 14, 2007
Richland
American Safari Cruise Attendees
Roy Gephart
Hanford: The Early Years

October 11, 2007
CBC
Astronomy Class
Roy Gephart
An Introduction to Meteors and Meteor Observing

October 4, 2007
Prosser
Prosser Economic Development Association
Gary Spanner
PNNL Economic Development Office's Research District Support

October 3, 2007
Battelle Auditorium from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Herbert M. Parker Lecture Series
R. James Woolsey, Booz Allen Hamilton
Energy Security

October 3, 2007
Rainier Club, Seattle
See the Light: Nanophotonics for Breakfast Speaker Series
Dr. Paul Burrows
Solid State Lighting

September 26, 2007
WSU Student Lounge starting at 5 p.m.
Science Cafe
Paul Burrows
Solid State Lighting

September 15, 2007
Three Rivers Convention Center
Mothers, Daughters, Friends, Sisters Luncheon
Karin Rodland
Cancer Research

September 13, 2007
Battelle Auditorium from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Director's Lecture Series
Jay M. Cohen, Under Secretary for Science and Technology at the Department of Homeland Security
Prevent and Counter Acts of Terrorism and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

September 12, 2007
DoubleTree Lloyd Center Hotel in Portland, OR
ONAMI - Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Landis Kannberg, ETD
Microscale Chemical & Energy Processes

September 12, 2007
Double Tree Lloyd Center Hotel in Portland, OR
ONAMI - Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Terry Hendricks, ESTN
Microscale Chemical & Energy Processes

September 12, 2007
DoubleTree Lloyd Center Hotel in Portland, OR
ONAMI - Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Jim Holbery, ESTD
Nanotechnology for Energy Generation & Efficiency in the Forest Products Industry

September 12, 2007
Granny's Buffet, Kennewick
Kiwanis Club of Columbia
Tom Thomas
Protecting Your Computer Against Threats

September 11, 2007
DoubleTree Lloyd Center Hotel in Portland, OR
ONAMI - Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Justin Teeguarden, ETD
Nanotechnology Environment, Health and Safety

September 10, 2007
DoubleTree Lloyd Center Hotel in Portland, OR
ONAMI - Micro Nano Breakthrough Conference
Paul Burrows, ESTD
Nano 101: What Technical, Business and Government Professionals Should Know

August 30, 2007
EMSL Aud
PNNL staff
Tom Thomas
Computers

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