Hydrogeology Department

Meet ESD Scientists in Booth #406 at AGU 2012

November 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.

Post Announcements Climate & Carbon Sciences Program Area Climate Sciences Department Ecology Department Ecosystems Biology Program Energy Resources Program Area Environmental Remediation & Water Resources Program Fundamental Earth Sciences Program Area Geochemistry Department Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program Geophysics Department Hydrogeology Department Nuclear Energy & Waste Program Proposals

ESD Early Career Development Grants

November 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.

Post Announcements Ecology Department Energy Resources Program Area Environmental Remediation & Water Resources Program Fundamental Earth Sciences Program Area Geochemistry Department Geophysics Department Hydrogeology Department Nuclear Energy & Waste Program Proposals

DOE SBIR/STTR Phase I Release 2 Topics Notice

November 14, 2012

Topics for our FY13 SBIR/STTR Phase I Release 2 Funding Opportunity Announcement have been issued and are available.

Post Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program Hydrogeology Department Research Highlight

Seismic Rupture and Ground Accelerations Induced by CO2 Injection in the Shallow Crust

November 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.

Post Ecology Department Ecosystems Biology Program Environmental Remediation & Water Resources Program Hydrogeology Department Research Highlight

How Bacteria Contend with Drought

November 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.

Post Fundamental Earth Sciences Program Area Hydrogeology Department Research Highlight

Rain, Rock-Moisture Dynamics, and the Rapid Response of Perched Groundwater in Weathered, Fractured Argillite Underlying a Steep Hillslope

November 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.

Post Hydrogeology Department Nuclear Energy & Waste Program Research Highlight

Multiphysics Processes in Partially Saturated Fractured Rock: Experiments and Models from Yucca Mountain

November 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.

Post Energy Resources Program Area Hydrogeology Department Research Highlight

Coupled Multiphase Fluid Flow and Wellbore Stability Analysis Associated with Gas Production from Oceanic Hydrate-Bearing Sediments

November 1, 2012

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.

Post Fundamental Earth Sciences Program Area Hydrogeology Department In The Press

Evidence of Water Transport on Mars

October 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.

Post Announcements Energy Resources Program Area Environmental Remediation & Water Resources Program Events Fundamental Earth Sciences Program Area Geochemistry Department Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program Geophysics Department Hydrogeology Department Nuclear Energy & Waste Program

TOUGH Symposium This Week!

September 14, 2012

This week in LBNL’s Building 50 auditorium, ESD hosts a symposium on the applications of the TOUGH numerical simulator—a suite of computer programs for simulating multiphase fluid and heat flow in porous and fractured rock.