Don DePaolo has been honored with the Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Award from the Geochemical Society. The award is given for major achievements in geochemistry or cosmochemistry, consisting of either a single outstanding contribution, or a series of publications that have had great influence on the field. The award will be presented to Don DePaolo next…
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Growing up in Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Tadewos Getachew witnessed firsthand the lack of access to clean drinking water. He closely watched the city grapple with infrastructure challenges related to treating waste water or fixing leakages in the water distribution system. Getachew realized that he wanted to develop engineering solutions. “I wanted to build a career…
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Last week’s massive southern California earthquakes shut down Ridgecrest Regional Hospital throughout the July 4 holiday weekend while the tiny town of Ridgecrest assessed the damages. A new optical sensor developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could speed up the time it takes to evaluate whether critical buildings like these are safe to occupy…
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On May 15, 2019, the California Energy Commission awarded a $4.9 million grant to a multi-institutional project team led by UC Berkeley’s Pacific Earthquake Engineering Center (PEER) to improve the seismic risk assessment of natural gas storage and pipeline infrastructure. As part of this project, Berkeley Lab’s Energy Geosciences Division will receive $1.084 million to…
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Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 30 times more heat than carbon dioxide, is commonly released from rice fields, dairies, landfills, and oil and gas facilities – all of which are plentiful in California. Now the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been awarded $6 million by the state…
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Fadji Maina, a postdoctoral fellow with the Energy Geosciences Division (EGD) and board member of the Berkeley Lab Postdoctoral Association (BLPA), represented EESA at the 17th annual National Postdoctoral Association annual conference held April 12-14 in Orlando. Maina attended the conference with six BLPA colleagues and Meg Rodriguez, postdoc manager at Berkeley Lab. The Berkeley…
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Susan Hubbard, Associate Laboratory Director of the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area and senior scientist at Berkeley Lab, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 239-year old honorary society that recognizes accomplished scholars, scientists and artists in academia, the humanities, arts, business, and government. She is one of four Berkeley Lab scientists…
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Susan Hubbard, Associate Laboratory Director of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab, moderated an expert briefing on the impact California wildfires were having on the environment at the state capitol in Sacramento today. The event is the latest in a series of briefings hosted by the California Council on Science & Technology…
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The Geothermal Resources Council has renamed its graduate student awards to honor the late Marcelo Lippmann, whose tenure at EESA spanned several decades and helped establish Berkeley Lab as a global leader in geothermal research. The council is accepting applications for the five Marcelo Lippmann Graduate Student Scholarship Awards, each in the amount of $2,500…
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EESA research scientists are committed to identifying ways to adapt how water resources are used for energy production, irrigation, and other key societal needs in an energy-constrained and uncertain climate future. This World Water Day, an annual UN observance day that highlights the importance of freshwater, is focused on tackling the water crisis by addressing the…
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