Jill Banfield, a UC Berkeley professor and EESA faculty scientist, co-led a team to discover 351 different huge bacteria-eating phages. One of these is the largest bacteriophage known to date with a genome that at 735,000 pairs long, is nearly 15 times longer than the average phage. According to UC Berkeley, university researchers and their collaborators…
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Students from The Branson School visited EESA on February 12 to learn from scientists engaged in climate, energy, and water research. Their visit featured a presentation by Associate Laboratory Director for EESA Susan Hubbard who introduced the students to Berkeley Lab and a tour of the Advanced Light Source. The students then went to Pers…
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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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EESA Research Scientist Michelle Newcomer, Senior Scientist Margaret Torn, and Associate Laboratory Director for EESA Susan Hubbard participated in last week’s AAAS Annual Meeting, February 13-16. Hubbard moderated a panel on wildfire hosted by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). Organized by Sarah Brady and Teresa Feo of CCST, the panel featured the…
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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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Innovators in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division have received funding for new projects that explore the impact of greenhouse gas emissions on biofuel feedstock production. Two projects are supported by grants from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program. Sebastien Biraud is a Co-Investigator of a newly funded ARPA-E project named “Ric…
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To achieve identified scientific and workforce goals needed to propel the Area into an exciting future, EESA recognizes that inclusion, diversity, equity and accountability (IDEA) must be integrated into our conscience, culture, practices and processes. An EESA IDEA framework has been developed to meet this objective.Annual goals will be accomplished through six rotating, topic-based,…
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The Women Scientists and Engineers Council (WSEC) at Berkeley Lab was founded in 2008. The council 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…
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For earth scientists, the most wonderful time of the year is made even better with the American Geophysical Union’s annual fall meeting dominating the first week of every December. EESA scientists turned out in force for the 2019 conference, which was held in San Francisco for the first time since 2016 from Monday, December 9…
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Berkeley Lab climate scientists studied how the Hadley cell, a tropical air flow closely linked to monsoons, will change as the climate warms. (Credit: iStockphoto) More than a billion people in Asia depend on seasonal monsoons for their water needs. The Asian monsoon is closely linked to a planetary-scale tropical air flow which, according to a…
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