On September 19, Energy Geosciences Division (EGD) Director, Jens Birkholzer announced Peter Nico as the new Program Domain Lead for Sustainable Energy Systems (a role was previously held by Birkholzer).
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Margaret Torn and Lydia Vaughn (picture not available) of the Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division contributed to a paper in the journal Science that found that soil will absorb far less atmospheric carbon than expected during the 21st century. The research, led by scientists from UC Irvine, was conducted by adding highly accurate radiocarbon dating…
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Announced today by Susan Hubbard, ALD for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), Barry Freifeld will assume the role as Department Head for Hydrogeology, effective November 1, 2016. Barry is internationally recognized by the scientific community for advances in wellbore monitoring technologies used to gain greater understanding of subsurface processes. He has managed the…
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A team of scientists from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and Florida State University return from a 10-day ocean voyage after completing their mission to launch and recover four Carbon Flux Explorer robots. Led by Jim Bishop (Faculty Senior Scientist in EESA’s Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division), the team, and the robots would…
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is issuing a national Call to Action and forming an interagency group to protect America’s soil. Soil plays critical roles in food security, climate mitigation, ecosystem function, and buffering against extreme weather events. Although it is essential for the stability of the planet, soil is…
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The eight species of fungi on board, which are descended from microbes collected at Chernobyl, may one day lead the way to a “sunblock” that could protect human space travelers from the harmful radiation of space. The microbes were originally collected by Tamas Torok a scientist affiliated with the Climate and Ecosystems Sciences Division. “Some…
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Three members of the TOUGH development team (Yingqi Zhang, Nic Spycher, and Stefan Finsterle)—scientists from the Energy Geosciences Division—participated in Lab-Corps, a six-week entrepreneurial boot camp, or “cohort”, facilitated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which aims at accelerating the transfer of clean energy technologies from national laboratories to the…
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Berkeley Lab will lead the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (SFA) to quantify how perturbations to mountainous watershed—floods, drought, fire and early snowmelt—impact the downstream delivery of water, nutrients, carbon, and metals. Researchers will observe and model watershed response to perturbations over seasonal to decadal timeframes, and from genome to watershed scales. The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of…
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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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