Peter Nico has co-authored a new working paper outlining how groundwater management activities can affect not only the quantity but also the quality of groundwater with a team of water-quality experts led by the Environmental Defense Fund. Nico is an environmental biogeochemist and program domain lead for Berkeley Lab’s Resilient Energy, Water and Infrastructure Program. …
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Two vans that look like mail trucks, two 200-feet well, a 150-pound antenna, four scientists, and many many wires: that’s the scene at the Richmond Field Station, five miles outside of Berkeley. Here, Berkeley Lab scientists are testing a cross-well electromagnetic tomography technology that was originally developed to spot oil, gas, and water in deep…
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This news release appeared first on the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory website. The National Alliance for Water Innovation, which is led by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has been awarded a five-year, $100-million Energy-Water Desalination Hub by DOE (pending appropriations) to address water security issues in the United States. The Hub…
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EESA Faculty Scientist Jonathan Ajo-Franklin has been named the Harold Mooney Award Winner for 2019 by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Ajo-Franklin began working at Berkeley Lab as a research scientist in 2007. He later became staff scientist and department head of the Geophysics Department in 2017. The Harold Mooney Award is given annually to…
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Floriana Petrone, previously a postdoctoral fellow and then research scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division at Berkeley Lab, joined the University of Nevada-Reno faculty this fall. Petrone was named assistant professor of civil engineering by the university’s College of Engineering. She will continue her work on behalf of Berkeley Lab analyzing the interaction…
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The Summer EESA photo contest received many incredible shots of EESA researchers at work. The panel of eight judges reviewed 50 total submissions. The winners are: 1ST Place Photographer: Sigrid Dengel 2ND Place (TIE) Photographer: Robin Lopez 2ND Place (TIE) Photographer: Craig Ulrich 3RD Place Photographer: Robin Lopez
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Growing up in Los Angeles, Viviana Vela grew accustomed to feeling–and thinking about–earthquakes. She even brought that awareness to choosing her field of study: structural engineering, which she pursued first as an undergraduate student at UC San Diego and later at UC Berkeley’s College of Civil and Environmental Engineering where she received her Master’s Degree…
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Susan Hubbard, Associate Laboratory Director for Earth and Environmental Sciences at Berkeley Lab, has been awarded the Robert G. Wetzel Award for Water Quality from the American Institute of Hydrology (AIH). AIH, founded in 1981, is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that certifies the competence and ethical conduct of professionals in the field of…
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Carl Steefel, a senior scientist in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab, has been named by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as a 2019 AGU Fellow. Every year, the AGU Fellows program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to the Earth and Space sciences. Vetted by a committee of AGU Fellows,…
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By Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ph.D. (@DrAlkaTrip) The Mw 7.1 earthquake on July 5, 2019, was the largest quake California has seen in 20 years. Part of the so-called Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, the Mw 7.1 event served as a reminder of the seismic hazard associated with living on the West Coast of the United States. Although…
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