December 4, 2012
ESD scientist Bill Dietrich explores the possibility of past life on Mars, noting that debris flows on Earth are able to carry boulders—as well as logs, cars, and even buildings—for very long distances. Martian gullies also culminate in lobe-like fans of eroded material, which are characteristic of debris-flow gullies on Earth.
Read MoreNovember 28, 2012
ESD’s Meet the Scientist program at AGU 2012 will reveal the exceptional minds and diverse expertise of our earth scientists this year.
Read MoreNovember 16, 2012
The ESD Early Career Development Grants (ECDG) is an opportunity for early career scientific staff to develop new concepts, tools and approaches with the potential to complement and/or enhance existing ESD research programs as well as develop new research directions in ESD.
Read MoreNovember 14, 2012
Topics for our FY13 SBIR/STTR Phase I Release 2 Funding Opportunity Announcement have been issued and are available.
Read MoreNovember 1, 2012
ESD’s Frédéric Cappa and Jonny Rutqvist studied the likelihood of ground motions induced by a CO2 injection, using hydromechanical modeling with multiphase fluid flow and dynamic rupture, including fault-frictional weakening.
Read MoreNovember 1, 2012
A team of ESD scientists (headed by Nick Bouskill recently found that ten months of “throughfall exclusion” (i.e., excluding the precipitation falling through a forest canopy) led to a statistically significant decline in soil water potential and bacterial populations clearly adapted to increased osmotic stress.
Read MoreNovember 1, 2012
ESD’s Rohit Salve, Daniella Rempe, and Bill Dietrich use various measurement systems to document soil and rock moisture dynamics within a 4000 m2 zero-order basin in which all runoff occurs through weathered argillite.
Read MoreNovember 1, 2012
ESD’s Jonny Rutqvist and Chin-Fu Tsang provide an overview of how the conceptual understanding of the multiphysics related to coupled THM processes at Yucca Mountain was developed, and how this understanding was incorporated into the development of numerical models and analyses.
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ESD’s Jonny Rutqvist led an investigative team (including ESD’s George Moridis) in conducting numerical modeling of coupled multiphase fluid-flow, thermal, and geomechanical processes during gas production from an oceanic hydrate deposit to study the geomechanical performance and wellbore stability.
Read MoreOctober 2, 2012
Scientists working on the Curiosity rover mission as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory project, including ESD’s William Dietrich, discuss the Mars rover’s discovery of a stream bed for NBC 4 television in Los Angeles.
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