January 18, 2013
Director Alivisatos recently issued the call for proposals for the FY2014 Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program. All scientific staff from our Division are encouraged to think of potential innovative proposal topics.
Read MoreJanuary 8, 2013
The AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco last month (December 2012) was a great success, especially for LBNL’s Earth Sciences Division and our homebase at the site, the ESD booth—a zone of constant activity.
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2013
ESD’s Bill Riley recently presented a high-dimensional model representation (HDMR) modeling approach that allows detailed process representation of a coupled carbon and water tracer in a computationally tractable manner.
Read MoreJanuary 1, 2013
ESD’s Margaret Torn joined a group of climate scientists in comparing soil carbon dynamics at five broadleaf forests in the Eastern U.S. that vary in climate, soil type, and soil ecology.
Read MoreDecember 21, 2012
Scientists within the Earth Sciences Division won a number of LBNL FY2013 Laboratory Directed Research and Development awards, as announced recently within TABL by Lab Director Paul Alivisatos and shown below. Bravo, all!
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
The FY 14 SERDP call for proposals has just been announced. This year's solicitation consists of 9 Statements of Need (SONs) for the CORE Solicitation, and 2 SONs for the SERDP Exploratory Development program (SEED). PREPROPOSALS FOR CORE SOLICITATION DUE on JANUARY 8, 2013 BY 2:00 P.M
Read MoreNovember 1, 2012
ESD’s Margaret Torn, working closely with CRD’s Deb Agarwal, will be spearheading the AmeriFlux project, which seeks to make ecosystem data gathered at 120 locations across the Americas accessible to a wide range of researchers.
Read MoreNovember 1, 2012
A team of scientists (including ESD Ecosystems Biology Program Head Janet Jansson) recently addressed how combining information about microbial identity and metabolic potential, with information on what genes are expressed and functioning from metatranscriptomes and metaproteomes, has opened a new window of opportunity for mapping and predicting biochemical processes in permafrost soils
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