Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division

New Research: Feedback between Permafrost Carbon and Climate

October 5, 2015

Charlie Koven, scientist in Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, discusses newly published research results in LBNL’s News Center today. As global warming causes soil temperatures to increase, some of the billions of tons of carbon frozen in Arctic permafrost will will be released into the atmosphere, and accelerate climate change. This is a big unknown. Now there’s a…

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O’Brien Fog Paper Featured in EOS

December 16, 2014

A paper that ESD Climate Scientist Travis O’Brien co-authored is featured on this week’s cover of the weekly AGU journal Eos, Transactions of the AGU—just in time for the AGU Meeting!

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The PhyloChip Wins a 2008 R&D 100 Award

July 9, 2008

In July 2008, the Berkeley Lab PhyloChip won an R&D100 award--known as the "Oscars of Invention"--as one of the top 100 technologies in the country for the past year. What follows here is the core text submitted for the award.

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The Carbon Explorer Takes the Prize

July 5, 2006

ESD is proud to announce that the Carbon Explorer, created and developed by a scientific team headed by ESD's Jim Bishop, has won one of R&D Magazine's coveted "R&D 100" Awards, as one of the 100 most significant proven scientific advances for 2005.