Carl Steefel, a Senior Scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division has been appointed as the new Geochemistry Department Head (effective August 1, 2016) by Susan Hubbard, Associate Lab Director of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA). “I am confident that Carl will do a terrific job of leading the Geochemistry Department and contributing to…
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The Water Resilience Initiative aims to improve hydroclimate predictions of water distribution, and to develop new approaches for water generation and storage that provide resilience in an energy constrained and uncertain water future.
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The Tree of Life, which depicts how life has evolved and diversified on the planet, is getting a lot more complicated. UC Berkeley researchers, who have discovered more than a thousand new types of bacteria and Archaea over the past 15 years lurking in Earth’s nooks and crannies, have rejiggered the tree to account for…
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Last week on March 22, the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) announced the winners of the 2016 High Performance Computing (HPC) Achievement Awards during the annual NERSC Users Group meeting at Berkeley Lab. Congratulations go to Charles Koven and William Riley of the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division as well…
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Women Scientists and Engineers Council (WSEC) at Berkeley Lab advocates for career development and work-life balance for women. Anyone (including men) who advocates for women in the sciences can become a member. Ongoing throughout the year, WSEC holds events and contributes to lab-wide efforts. Each division sends an official representative. EGD’s WSEC representative is Romy…
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Meet the three students who were selected for UC sponsored Global Food Initiative! This year’s UC GFI Fellows – Class of 2016 are mentored by 3 of our EESA scientists. Kripa Akila Jagannathan is a graduate student in UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group and is a second year UC GFI Fellow. She will be…
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LBNL’s News Center, October 30, 2016: Science published the call for a national effort to understand and harness Earth’s microbes: a Unified Microbiome Initiative. Co-authors include Berkeley Lab researchers, Paul Alivisatos (LBNL Director), Eoin Brodie (Deputy Director of the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division), Mary Maxon (Biosciences Area Principal Deputy), Eddy Rubin (Director of the Joint Genome Institute) and Peidong…
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The Precision Urban Agriculture Initiative (Urban Ag), led by Romy Chakraborty (an ecology scientist in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division), brings a team of scientists together from the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area and the Energy Technologies Area to look at addressing the intersection of two problems—the environmental damage caused by conventional agriculture and…
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Robinson Negrón-Juárez, Charles Koven, William Riley, Ryan Knox, and Jeff Chambers, researchers in EESA and CESD, published a letter in Environmental Research Letters showing that most earth system models (ESM) overpredict tropical forest biomass in response to increased forest productivity. In contrast, observations show that as tropical forest productivity increases, trees do not continue to store CO2 at…
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ESMs (Earth system models) are crucial in estimating climate sensitivity, but show large uncertainty in carbon cycle feedbacks. A key step of reducing this uncertainty is to identify the processes that govern carbon-climate and carbon-concentration feedbacks driven by changes in terrestrial carbon stocks. Are these changing carbon stocks driven by changes to inputs, or changes…
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