The California Energy Commission (CEC) has selected and recommended for funding two proposed projects by researchers Kurt Nihei and Jonny Rutqvist. Their projects will support the CEC’s efforts to meet the State of California’s 2030 climate commitment to use renewable energy resources for half of the state’s electricity by 2030. The state is currently on…
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Congratulations to EESA’s 12 FY2017 LDRD award recipients! LDRDs support high-quality science proposals, especially those that advance new strategic directions for EESA and the Berkeley Lab. Here are this year’s awardees: Lab-wide strategic growth Awards to support Microbes to Biomes Eoin Brodie—Harnessing the soil microbiome for food and fuel security Javier Ceja Navarro—The Soil Metazoan…
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“High Performance, Multidisciplinary Simulations for Regional Scale Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessments” is one of two Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Earth and Environmental Sciences Area-led projects recently selected by the DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) to be funded at about $3M over the next three years. The project will be led by David…
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A team of scientists from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and Florida State University return from a 10-day ocean voyage after completing their mission to launch and recover four Carbon Flux Explorer robots. Led by Jim Bishop (Faculty Senior Scientist in EESA’s Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division), the team, and the robots would…
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Berkeley Lab will lead the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (SFA) to quantify how perturbations to mountainous watershed—floods, drought, fire and early snowmelt—impact the downstream delivery of water, nutrients, carbon, and metals. Researchers will observe and model watershed response to perturbations over seasonal to decadal timeframes, and from genome to watershed scales. The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of…
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Earlier in June, the Department of Energy announced the selection of two Brine Extraction Storage Test (BEST) field projects that will test enhanced water recovery technologies for their potential to produce useable water from carbon dioxide (CO2) storage sites. The projects are set to receive funding managed by the Department’s National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL)…
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Lead Scientist of M2B, Eoin Brodie (of EESA’s Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division) says that the Initiative “... is very much in line with our interdisciplinary vision for Microbes-to-Biomes”
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Berkeley Lab scientists in the Energy Geosciences Division (EGD) are conducting a study commissioned by California’s oil field regulating agency — the Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources — to examine possible links between oil field wastewater injection and earthquakes. The research team is led by Bill Foxall, and includes Preston Jordan and Corinne…
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Pierpaolo Marchesini, a new postdoctoral fellow in the Energy Geosciences Division (EGD) received the 2015 “Gustavo Sclocchi” Thesis Award in December. The Award is organized by EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers), SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers), and Assomineraria (Italian Petroleum and Mining Industry Association – Hydrocarbon and Geothermal Resources Branch) and is given…
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It is with great sorrow that we announce the unexpected passing of Valeri Korneev on the morning of December 22, 2015. Valeri has been an integral member of our Earth Sciences family since 1990, soon after he arrived in the Berkeley area from Russia. Valeri was a Staff Scientist geophysicist, who focused on seismic wave…
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