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  • About the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area

    Our scientists are tackling some of the most pressing environmental and energy challenges of the 21st Century.

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    Our Scientists create basic and use-inspired knowledge, methods, and capabilities for sustainable utilization and management of the Earth’s subsurface.

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  • Get Acquainted with EESA Research: Wildfire

    Berkeley Lab scientists are developing insights and technology to improve how well we respond to the wildfires of today and tomorrow

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  • Take a virtual walk through EESA facilities

    EESA benefits greatly from DOE user facilities, including the NERSC supercomputer, the Joint Genome Institute and the Advanced Light Source X-ray synchrotron at Berkeley Lab, as well as its own specialized centers, including isotope labs, rock physics labs, quantum imaging labs, atmospheric measurement labs, and the Geoscience Measurement Facility (GMF).

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    Through its leadership of the NGEE-Tropics project, Berkeley Lab and our partners are exploring how tropical ecosystems are changing

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    Wildfire’s Effects on Water Quality and Other Current News

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In the News

  • Former Intern Emily Nagamoto Wins AGU Award

    March 27, 2023

  • EESA Scientists Investigate How Tropical Soil Microbes Might Respond to Future Droughts

    March 14, 2023

  • Kenichi Soga named to National Academy of Engineers

    February 23, 2023

  • A Q&A With Jessica Needham

    February 13, 2023

  • A Q&A With Barbara Bomfim

  • A Q&A with Marcos Longo

  • A Q&A With Rachel Ward

  • Chun Chang Places Second in Annual Berkeley Lab Pitch Competition

    January 18, 2023

  • Illustration of a globe against a blue gradient background, with three hands of different skin tones holding up magnifying glasses to the planet, evoking the study of earth sciences

    EESA Scientists Collaborate With Universities to bring Environmental Science Research Opportunities and Training to Students Underrepresented in STEM

    January 13, 2023

  • New Report Explores Revolutionary Environmental Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure

    January 10, 2023

  • A Q&A With Postdoc Kunxiaoja Yuan

    January 4, 2023

  • A Q&A With Postdoc Brandon Enalls

  • Study Demonstrates the Importance of Data Management When Downscaling

    December 12, 2022

  • U.S. Department of Energy Announces Project Selections to Build Water Security and Climate Resilience

    December 1, 2022

  • Climate Expert William Collins Selected as New Associate Laboratory Director

  • Berkeley Lab Hosts Successful CouFrac 2022 Conference

    November 29, 2022

  • Strengthening FAIRer Earth and Environmental Systems Science Data with Community-led Reporting Formats

    November 14, 2022

  • Christophe Tournassat Honored by Clay Minerals Society

  • Register for the 2022 ESS-DIVE Community Data Workshop to Advance Environmental System Science through Collaborative Data Management

    October 26, 2022

  • EESA Geophysicists Explore Landslide Hazard Using Novel Remote-Sensing Approach

    October 17, 2022

  • Berkeley Lab Research Team Identifies Elevated Methane Concentration in Residential Neighborhood

    October 5, 2022

  • EESA Scientists Develop New Model to Study Watershed Flow and Chemical Transport

    September 27, 2022

  • New Nature Geoscience Paper Explores Impact of Fluid Injection on Fault Slip in Soft Rock

    August 31, 2022

  • Nature Editorial Calls for Getting a Grip on Forest Science–Now

    August 25, 2022

  • A Q&A With Ingenuity Intern Toshiyuki Bandai

    August 4, 2022

  • A Q&A With Ingenuity Intern Hang Chen

  • A Q&A With Ingenuity Intern Elijah Adeniyi

  • Daniel Stolper Selected by DOE’s Early Career Research Program

    June 22, 2022

  • Wageningen Students Visit Ecology Department Team

  • Strengthening Wildland Fire Science and Scientific Collaboration through New Data Management Platform

    June 13, 2022

  • Bhavna Arora portrait

    Bhavna Arora Describes Agricultural Managed Aquifer Recharge

    June 7, 2022

  • EESA Research Scientist Selected for NAE 2022 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

    May 23, 2022

  • Microbial Response to a Changing and Fire-Prone Arctic Ecosystem

    April 27, 2022

  • EESA Multimedia Producer and Digital Strategist Niba Audrey Nirmal Awarded Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship

    April 25, 2022

  • Study Evaluates Phosphorus Availability Underground using Plant Leaves as Biosensors

  • Robinson Negron-Juarez to Receive Honorary Degree

    May 26, 2022

  • EESA Researchers Develop Open-Source Code for Modeling Soil Biogeochemistry

    April 22, 2022

  • EESA Study Closes Knowledge Gaps of Drought Impacts on Microbial Activity

    April 25, 2022

  • Berkeley Lab Team Hunts for Carbon in Soil Without Getting Their Hands Dirty

    April 14, 2022

  • EESA Experts Participate in National Energy Storage Summit

    March 29, 2022

  • East River watershed, Colorado CA

    New Research Demonstrates Method for Rapidly Characterizing Watershed Organization and Function Using Zone-based Approach

    March 16, 2022

  • Microbe images imposed on Earth. Credit Berkeley Lab

    Dead or alive? Modeling how microorganisms in soil shape the global carbon cycle

    March 3, 2022

  • Remote Autonomous Monitoring Developed at the GMF Makes the Difference in Carbon Storage Investigations

    February 24, 2022

  • Quantifying California’s Lithium Valley: Can It Power Our EV Revolution?

    February 22, 2022

  • Susan Hubbard

    Earth and Environmental Sciences Area Leadership Changes

    February 15, 2022

  • Carol Chien Makes Impact as Co-Founder of Asian Pacific Islander Employee Resource Group

    February 24, 2022

  • 5G Connectivity Gives Scientists Better Access to Data on Atmospheric Processes in Colorado Mountains

    February 9, 2022

  • Newsha Ajami Joins EESA as Chief Development Officer for Research

    January 21, 2022

  • National Labs Support Safe Nuclear Waste Disposal by Studying Safety Material for Underground Sites

    January 19, 2022

  • Susan Hubbard Named Deputy for Science and Technology at ORNL

    January 4, 2022

  • Plants Buy Us Time to Slow Climate Change – But Not Enough to Stop It

    December 8, 2021

  • Berkeley Lab Postdoctoral Scholar Bags International Prize for Young Scientists

    November 29, 2021

  • Dried stream bed, parched grasses, California drought. June 2015

    Global Network Takes Stock of Human Adaptation to Climate Change

    November 28, 2021

  • Methane’s Short Lifespan Presents Golden Opportunity to Quickly Address Climate Change

    November 10, 2021

  • Improved Earth System Model Could Help Better Predict Impact of Extreme Events

  • Susan Hubbard - Associate Lab Director Earth and Environmental Sciences Area. Photo cr. Roy Kaltschmidt. Copyright 2015 Berkeley Lab.

    Susan Hubbard Invited to Serve as SEG Near Surface Global Lecturer for 2022

    October 27, 2021

  • EESA Climate Scientists Participate in Study Exploring How Life Emerges On Barren Landscapes

    October 13, 2021

  • George Moridis Presented With Honorary Membership in the Society of Petroleum Engineers at Conference in Dubai

    September 28, 2021

  • New Effort to Assess Caldor Fire Impact on Cosumnes River Basin

  • EESA Members Recognized With Berkeley Lab Director’s Awards

    September 27, 2021

  • EESA Faculty Scientist Inez Fung Appointed to PCAST

    September 28, 2021

  • Charlie Koven Honored With Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award from AGU

    September 10, 2021

  • NAWI Publishes Trailblazing Roadmap Series on Innovation for a Sustainable Water Future

    August 25, 2021

  • Young student watching lesson online and studying from home. Young woman taking notes while looking at computer screen following professor doing math on video call. Girl studying from home on pc.

    ESS-DIVE Community Data Workshop Offers Guidance in Environmental Data Management and Sharing

    May 11, 2021

  • Haruko Wainwright Named Berkeley Lab Outstanding Mentor

    August 6, 2021

  • International Early-Career Cohort Seeks to Enhance Collaboration Among Critical Zone Researchers

  • As the World Warms, the Coastal Western U.S. is Slated to Experience More Dramatic Atmospheric Rivers and Increased Flood Damages

    July 27, 2021

  • EESA Researchers To Receive FY22 LDRD Funding

    July 23, 2021

  • Intercultural Literacy Workshop at EESA.

    EESA URGE Pod Continues as Community-Led Group

  • Margaret Torn Participates in DOE Office of Science Panel with DOE Secretary and Deputy Director for OSTP

  • Sun over cityscape

    Workshop Addresses Fundamental Science Needs for Urban Resilience

    July 26, 2021

  • EESA Scientist Participates in Nobel Laureate Meeting 

    June 28, 2021

  • A Conversation with Susan Hubbard as part of Berkeley Lab’s 90th Celebration

    June 18, 2021

  • A Conversation with Charuleka Varadharajan as part of Berkeley Lab’s 90th Celebration

  • Mengsu Hu Selected as ARMA Future Leader 

    June 28, 2021

  • Depending Upon Soil Depth, Warming Affects Microbes Differently

    May 21, 2021

  • Scientists working in Blodgett Forest

    Deep Forest Soils Lose Carbon as Temperatures Climb

  • George Moridis Honored by Society of Petroleum Engineers

    July 31, 2019

  • New Study Finds the Economic Harms of Methane Emissions Can Vary Greatly by Region

    May 21, 2021

  • Bedrock Weathering a Large Mobilizer of Subsurface Nitrogen 

    April 28, 2021

  • EESA Climate Experts Examine Connections Between Temperature and Methane Emissions

    April 15, 2021

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    EESA Climate Experts Co-Author Study Predicting 100% Increase in Arctic Lightning

    April 5, 2021

  • Microbes cartoon

    Study Finds Natural Organic Carbon Source Fuels Growth of Diverse, Distinct Bacteria from Groundwater

    March 25, 2021

  • EESA Participates in International HotBENT Project

    March 29, 2021

  • Research poster covering pyLEnM: Machine Learning and Analytics Toolkit for Long Term Water Quality Monitoring using a Remote Sensing Network

    ALTEMIS Scientists and Students Participate in WMS

    March 24, 2021

  • EESA Awarded New Geothermal Projects Associated with FORGE

    February 26, 2021

  • EESA Celebrates International Day of Women & Girls in Science

    February 24, 2021

  • EESA Scientists Contribute to DOE GTO Research on Critical Minerals

  • iStock Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil

    CSA News Calls Out Recent NGEE-Tropics Research

    February 22, 2021

  • Two EESA Women Chosen for the 2020 Women @ The Lab Awards

    February 9, 2021

  • ExxonMobil Becomes Member in National Alliance for Water Innovation

  • Sigrid Dengel Receives Award at NGEE-Arctic All-Hands Meeting

    January 28, 2021

  • New EESA Research Explores Impact of Land-use Policy on California’s Terrestrial Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Budget

    January 12, 2021

  • EESA Research Shows Impact of Environmental Changes on Microbes in Arctic Soils

    February 23, 2018

  • EESA Climate Experts Show Methane’s Effects on Sunlight Vary by Region

    September 27, 2018

  • Getting to Net Zero – and Even Net Negative – is Surprisingly Feasible, and Affordable

    January 29, 2021

  • EESA Members Invited to Join Pod: Unlearning Racism in Geoscience

    January 27, 2021

  • Six Scientists Awarded EESA Early Career Development Grants

    January 26, 2021

  • EGD Postdoc Fellow Receives Young Researcher Presenter Award

    January 21, 2021

  • EESA Senior Scientist Talks Earthquake Building Resilience

    January 20, 2021

  • Berkeley Lab Partners with International Collaborators in Geothermal Energy Research

  • EESA Scientist Coauthors New Comprehensive Guide on Removing CO2 from the Atmosphere

    January 18, 2021

  • Impacts of Climate Change on Our Water and Energy Systems: It’s Complicated

    January 11, 2021

  • Portrait of Jeremy Snyder holding a camera on a boat.

    Stunning Visuals Tell a Fluid Story of Water in the Upper Gunnison River Basin

    December 23, 2020

  • Coast to Coast: Using eddy covariance techniques reveals coastal systems “on the edge”

    December 8, 2020

  • Field Access Allows First-Ever Geothermal Basin Characterization Using Dark Fiber

    December 16, 2020

  • Berkeley Lab scientists design new framework for clean water

    December 2, 2020

  • Comparing climate change impact on Arctic tundra over different time periods

    November 25, 2020

  • photo of bill collins presenting at a meeting at Berkeley Lab

    Bill Collins Named 2020 AGU Fellow

    November 18, 2020

  • Two EESA researchers among 2020’s most highly cited

    November 24, 2020

  • Martin Lesueur receives Mineral and Rock Physics section award from AGU

    October 27, 2020

  • Berkeley Lab works toward establishing a new center for lithium resource research and innovation

    October 22, 2020

  • Nature Climate Change highlights EESA research on soil organic matter decomposition temperature sensitivity

    October 9, 2020

  • EESA members honored with 2020 Director’s awards

    October 5, 2020

  • EESA Celebrates 40 Years of Innovative Research

    July 17, 2017

  • A Watershed Moment

    April 14, 2020

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