November 17, 2011
This past Monday, Nov. 14, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Wuhan University of China agreed (in a memorandum of understanding—MOU) to collectively explore their mutual interests in scientific education and research
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ESD Director Donald J. DePaolo talks about the link between climate change and the “carbon cycle change”: the fact that Earth’s carbon cycles have undergone revolutionary change, entirely due to human burning of fossil fuels and removal of forests
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Scientists don’t know what will happen to soil carbon in response to climate change. It could enter the atmosphere as CO2, a greenhouse gas, and further accelerate climate change. But how much — and when — remains a mystery.
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“Sit Down With Sabin” is a summer lecture series, during which former San Francisco Chronicle science reporter and current Lab employee Sabin Russell interviews innovative scientists about their research. This video is the third installment; a talk with ESD's Margaret Torn.
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ESD’s Eoin Brodie and Nicholas Bouskill are using rainfall manipulation experiments to characterize the response of soil microbial communities to different rainfall patterns, and how this might affect the soil’s ability to sequester carbon.
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Lauren Sommer of KQED's QUEST program sat down with ESD's Bill Collins to learn about how faster supercomputers will help scientists run climate simulations.
Read MoreMay 4, 2011
Source: LBNL News Center “Our simulation found that large methane releases erode the ocean’s ability to consume methane. At this scale, resource limitations come into play,” says Matthew Reagan of Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division. Reagan is a co-author of an article on this research that was published in a recent issue of the Journal…
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Source: LBNL TABL, Berkeley Lab News Center Despite having only been out for about a month, a paper entitled “Grand Challenges for Life-Cycle Assessment of Biofuels,” whose lead author was Thomas McKone of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division, has already become the third most down-loaded paper in the Energy Sciences and Technology section of the…
Read MoreMarch 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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