Guided by a Team Approach

Our researchers represent some of the best of the fields exploring Earth’s energy and water systems and, working with the collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach around which Berkeley Lab was founded, align their work with many of the laboratory’s premier strategic directives.

Two men and a woman gather around a solar panel and radio transmitter in a mountain meadow, one man is pointing across the valley at a nearby mountain

Our Strategic Approach organizes our work around three core pillars and four cross-cutting themes. Developed by a multidisciplinary team with expertise spanning fields such as geothermal energy, critical minerals discovery, water security, and infrastructure resilience, the plan reflects our commitment to actionable science, collaborative partnerships, and real-world impact. Explore the plan to learn how we’re tackling some of today’s most pressing challenges.

Previous strategic plans are linked below.