Brookhaven Organization of Scientists

Initial activities of the Organization focused on presentations of views of BNL scientists and engineers to the Department of Energy and to prospective contractors as the Department conducted a search for a new contractor to operate the laboratory.

Subsequent to the selection of Brookhaven Science Associates as the new contractor for Brookhaven National Laboratory the Organization has worked to foster the continuance of the Laboratory as a place where outstanding research is done. This includes all aspects of employer-employee relations, and of the workplace generally, pertinent to maintaining and enhancing the laboratory's capability to attract and retain outstanding scientists. This also includes strengthening ties between the scientists at the laboratory and members of our community--civic and business associations, the press, elected and appointed public officials, and our fellow Long Islanders.

A second major thrust of the Organization is to represent the views of BNL scientists regarding scientific accomplishments at the Laboratory and environmental issues that currently concern the Laboratory and the community. It is the objective of the Organization to provide scientific input and perspective to these issues to provide a better basis for rational and intelligent decision making.

BOS publishes an email newsletter that is available to members of the BNL community on request to bos@buoy.com.

We invite visitors to this page to contact us for further information, requests for speakers, or the like. Please email us.

We are looking for member volunteers to work any aspect of the organization. If you can spare some time, please contact us.

BOS Letter to to Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus of MIT, nominee for Director of Energy Research at the Department of Energy (June, 2000), suggesting that recognition of Brookhaven as a fundamental research laboratory might serve as a basis for freeing the laboratory from invidious and unnecessary security and counterintelligence requirements that are being imposed on the lab. The latter are spelled out in rather embarassing detail in BNL's Standard Practice Instructions SPI 5-14 COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM.

BOS Letter to Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson commending him on his decision not to require BNL employees to wear identification badges, April, 2000. The DOE order may be found here.

BOS Statement in opposition to proposed polygraph testing of DOE National Lab employees, October, 1999.

BOS statement Flawed Study of Strontium-90 in Deciduous Teeth, April, 1998.

Brookhaven National Laboratory home page.

BOS works closely with the Friends of Brookhaven. We encourage you to visit their web page, which contains much information pertinent to Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Attention is called to the web page of the BNL Retired Employees Association (BREA).

BOS calls attention to the web page maintained by the Society of Professional Scientists and Engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.