March 17, 2014

EM QUIETLY ELIMINATES CHIEF SCIENTIST POSITION

By ExchangeMonitor

The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management has quietly eliminated its Chief Scientist position, with Mary Neu set to return to Los Alamos National Laboratory where she was previously a senior lab official, WC Monitor has learned. While EM has not officially announced the move, the Chief Scientist position was eliminated without explanation from a new version of the EM headquarters organization chart posted online yesterday. EM did not return calls for comment yesterday.

The EM Chief Scientist position was created in the fall of 2010 and was described at the time as intended to serve as the “technical conscience” of the DOE cleanup program by helping to guide applied research-and-development. Neu was tapped in early 2011 to serve as EM Chief Scientist, and is the only person to have held the position. Prior to coming to EM, Neu served as Associate Director of Chemistry, Life, and Earth Sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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