Saul Perlmutter and Inez Fung Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter and climate scientist Inez Fung, both scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have been appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the White House announced in September. Perlmutter, who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the accelerating…
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Research scientist Haruko Wainwright is being celebrated for her role in helping Berkeley Lab provide exceptional mentorship of the next generation of STEM professionals. Wainwright is one of six scientists being recognized this summer for their unique contributions as mentors through the various internships offered by Berkeley Lab: Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI), the…
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Berkeley Lab’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development program has informed recipients across the laboratory of new and renewed funding for their projects beginning in October. In EESA, ten individuals will receive funding for new and continuing projects. All EESA projects are named below. Berkeley Lab’s LDRD program exists because the United States Congress has allowed federal Laboratory…
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In the last few months, a group of EESA colleagues have been participating in the nationwide URGE program (Unlearning Racism in Geoscience) as the EESA URGE pod. This educational program was funded by the National Science Foundation to address gaps in diversity in the geosciences, as it is the least diverse STEM discipline at all…
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A new cohort of master’s level students will join EESA as interns who will work on year-long research projects on August 1. This is the fourth set of students to participate in the Berkeley Lab Pathbreaker program since it was started as a joint collaboration with Cal State University East Bay (CSUEB) by Berkeley Lab…
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A community of researchers to learn how critical DOE Environmental System Science (ESS) data is managed, stored, discovered Berkeley, CA, May 11, 2021 – The Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) repository of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE) Earth and environmental science data hosted its first hands-on workshop dedicated to…
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The director of Berkeley Lab’s Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Bill Collins, has been named a 2020 American Geophysical Union Fellow. Every year, the AGU Fellows program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to the Earth and space sciences. Vetted by a committee of AGU Fellows, honorees represent no more than 0.1 percent…
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Susan Hubbard, the associate laboratory director for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab, was introduced into the National Academy of Engineering Class of 2020 on October 4. Dr. Hubbard is one of 87 members and 18 international members who were formally inducted into the 2020 class at a virtual ceremony during…
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Berkeley Lab’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development program has informed recipients across the laboratory of new and renewed funding for their projects beginning in October. In EESA, Dan Feldman, Charlie Koven, Sebastien Uhlemann, and Curt Oldenburg will be receiving funding for new projects. Mengsu Hu, Romy Chakraborty, Ben Gilbert, and Pouya Vahmani will receive renewal…
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Twelve early career scientists will go head-to-head in the third annual Berkeley Lab SLAM on Sept. 17, competing for a grand prize of $3,000. From EESA, James Dennedy-Frank and Sara Gushgari-Doyle are among the finalists. The event takes place virtually from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. and will be live-streamed. The virtual audience will get…
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