“DUSEL represents a unique scientific and engineering opportunity for the Nation, South Dakota, UC Berkeley and the Laboratory,” stated Kem Robinson. “The project is creating a major new laboratory with a wide scientific program and a strong collaboration between the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy Office of Science. A strong project team is being assembled and I’m proud to have been asked to help at this critical point in the project’s development.”
Many of the experiments that will be deployed in DUSEL will be joint efforts between the NSF and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Most prominently among the planned experiments is the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment that will construct a new high power beamline at Fermilab to generate neutrinos directed at multiple 100 kiloton detectors at DUSEL. A cavern for one of the three detectors planned for this experiment is large enough to house three Advanced Light Sources stacked on top of each other.
Robinson, a senior scientist in Engineering Division, has been at Berkeley Lab since 1999 and director of the Engineering Division since September 2003. Prior to being Engineering Division Director, Robinson served as the Laboratory Project Management Officer, the Principal Division Deputy of the Accelerator Fusion and Research, and the Deputy for General Sciences Projects. Prior to coming to Berkeley Lab, he was the Vice President of Technology Development at a private research and development firm and is recognized within the scientific community for his expertise on free-electron lasers (FELs), undulators, and wigglers used for synchrotron radiation and FELs.
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