A team composed of researchers from the BES Geoscience group in EGD, the Advanced Light Source, and the University of Utah, has constructed a brand-new X-ray nanotomography instrument at beamline 11.3.1 at the ALS. The researchers look forward to the instrument becoming a valuable resource for Earth and materials scientists in EESA and beyond. Above: The…
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This interview was conducted and written by Ruby Barcklay and first appeared on Berkeley Lab’s internal websites. Charuleka Varadharajan, a research scientist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), was interested in the nexus of environmental science and computation even as an undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai. Her thesis explored…
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These maps show radiation dose rates in the Fukushima evacuation zone and former evacuation zone over time. At left is data from 2014, at middle is data from 2015, and at right is data from 2016. There is a visible reduction in the areas with higher dose concentrations from 2014 to 2016 – higher concentrations…
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The National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Spring Meeting was held from May 4-5. The Spring Meeting featured opening remarks from Kelly Speakes-Backman, the Acting Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy; presentations by NAWI leadership; and a number of sessions led by NAWI Alliance Members themselves. The attendees, including those from EESA at…
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Energy Geosciences Division researchers are preparing to deploy new instrumentation developed at Berkeley Lab’s Geosciences Measurement Facility in a 500-meter deep borehole drilled across portions of the San Andreas Fault near San Juan Bautista, California, this summer. The goal of the project, being carried out in collaboration with Emily Brodsky and Andrew Barbour of UC…
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Seventeen projects have been selected to receive up to $46 million in funding from the University of Utah as part of the DOE’s Frontier Observatory for Geothermal Energy (FORGE) for cutting-edge, domestic, and carbon-free geothermal research. EESA will lead one of those projects, with David Alumbaugh as lead PI, and will participate in a second…
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Scientists in the Energy Geosciences Division are contributing to research sponsored by the DOE Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) investigating the potential extraction of lithium, rare earth elements, and other critical minerals that are dissolved constituents of hot geothermal brines that are used to produce electricity. Far more information is currently needed, for instance, about…
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Reaching zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from energy and industry by 2050 can be accomplished by rebuilding U.S. energy infrastructure to run primarily on renewable energy, at a net cost of about $1 per person per day, according to new research published by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the University…
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This week marks the launch of a new education and training course called Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE). Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, URGE‘s primary objectives are to (1) deepen the community’s knowledge of the effects of racism on the participation and retention of Black, Brown, and…
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Six early career scientists have been awarded EESA Early Career Development Grants. Each project is aligned with the goals of the EESA Strategic Vision. The EESA Early Career Development Grant (ECDG) program provides an opportunity for early career scientific staff to develop new concepts, tools, and approaches with the potential to complement/enhance existing EESA…
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