Pat Dobson has been named a fellow of The Geological Society of America. GSA members are elected to fellowship in recognition of a sustained record of distinguished contributions to the geosciences and to the society. An EESA staff scientist, Dobson is the Area’s Geothermal Systems Program Lead. Since joining Berkeley Lab’s former Earth Sciences…
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EESA Faculty Affiliate Dan Stolper has received this year’s honor of the Geochemical Society’s F.W. Clarke Award, named for Frank Wigglesworth Clarke who has been called the father of geochemistry. The award honors a single outstanding contribution to geochemistry or cosmochemistry by an early-career scientist, published as a single paper or a series of papers…
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EESA faculty scientist Dan Stolper is among nine faculty members at UC Berkeley to be awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, an honor given yearly to the brightest up-and-coming scientists in the United States and Canada. They are among 126 fellowships announced February 12. Since the first Sloan Research Fellowships were awarded in 1955, 282 UC…
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Susan Hubbard, Senior Scientist and Associate Laboratory Director for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab, is one of 87 members and 18 international members to be newly elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today. Election of new NAE members is the culmination of a yearlong process, which began when the…
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Susan Hubbard, Associate Laboratory Director for Earth and Environmental Sciences at Berkeley Lab, has been awarded the Robert G. Wetzel Award for Water Quality from the American Institute of Hydrology (AIH). AIH, founded in 1981, is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that certifies the competence and ethical conduct of professionals in the field of…
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EESA research scientist Charuleka Varadharajan has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science to receive significant funding for research through its Early Career Research Program. The program, now in its tenth year, is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career…
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Don DePaolo has been honored with the Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Award from the Geochemical Society. The award is given for major achievements in geochemistry or cosmochemistry, consisting of either a single outstanding contribution, or a series of publications that have had great influence on the field. The award will be presented to Don DePaolo next…
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Bill Collins, director of the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, has been selected by AGU as the 2019 Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecturer. The Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture honors the life and work of physicist, John Tyndall. Tyndall’s measurements in the late 1850s and early 1860s verified the importance of…
Read MoreFour postdoctoral fellows have been awarded EESA Early Career Development Grants. Each of the four projects is aligned with different goals of the EESA Strategic Plan. Chun Chang’s project, Producing Oil-in-Water Nanoemulsion for Efficient Proppant Emplacement Using Hydrodynamic Cavitation, is relevant to the Sustainable Earth Grand Challenge; Michael Whittaker’s project, Observing Geochemistry with Atomic Resolution,…
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A team of computational scientists and engineers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and NVIDIA has been awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for applying an exascale-class deep learning application to extreme climate data and breaking the exaop (1 billion billion calculations) computing barrier for the first time…
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