Geochemistry Department

DePaolo Appointed Associate Laboratory Director of Energy and Environmental Sciences

March 30, 2011

Source: Kryshna Avina, ESD Don DePaolo is now the Associate Laboratory Director of Energy and Environmental Sciences, a position that oversees the Chemical Sciences, Environmental Energy Technologies, Materials Sciences, and Earth Sciences Divisions. The appointment, effective April 1, was made by the UC Board of Regents in a vote held March 17. DePaolo served as Acting Associate Laboratory Director of Energy and Environmental…

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An Intimate Look at the Life of Soil Carbon

March 10, 2011

Peter Nico The amount of carbon residing in world soils at any moment is greater than all the carbon in the atmosphere and biosphere (living things) combined. In fact, among the fast cycling global carbon reservoirs, soil is exceeded in quantitative importance only by the oceans. The large amount of carbon in soils makes understanding…

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Jillian Banfield Featured in L’Oreal ‘Women in Science’ Video

March 10, 2011

Source: LBNL TABL Jillian Banfield, a Berkeley Lab Researcher and UC Berkeley Professor who was named the 2011 North American Laureate by the L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Foundation, is featured in a video highlighting her research. Banfield is a geomicrobiologist and biogeochemist whose work focuses on the fundamental relationship between microorganisms and their natural environments.…

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Reading the Life History of a 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite

March 4, 2011

Source: LBNL TABL Researchers — including Earth Sciences Division Director Don DePaolo — have performed a micro-probe analysis of the core and outer layers of a pea-sized piece of a meteorite some 4.57 billion years old to reconstruct the history of its formation, providing the first evidence that dust particles like this one experienced wildly…

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Defining the Interfacial Molecular Structure of Goethite: A Key to Understanding Environmental Chemical Reactions

December 10, 2010

The mineral goethite (a-FeOOH) is one of the most common iron minerals on Earth’s surface. As the chief constituent in many forms of natural rust, it is most obvious as the yellow or brown-red coloring agent in soils and sediments. It is also a microscopic to nanoscale mineral, with a high surface area and high…