May 22, 2012
Gary Andersen and the ESD TOUGH Software group were winners of the LBNL Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement—Andersen for the PhyloChip array and the TOUGH team for supporting diverse applications and licensing of the TOUGH code.
Read MoreDecember 1, 2011
At this year’s AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, ESD will man a booth, have scientists available to talk about their work, and have an HR representative on hand to meet with people pursuing work in Earth sciences.
Read MoreNovember 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
Read MoreNovember 9, 2011
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
Read MoreSeptember 20, 2011
Earthquakes can be caused by human engineering practices—see Induced Seismicity: Manmade Earthquakes, featuring ESD’s own Ernie Majer, to be aired on “Quest” tomorrow (Wednesday, September 21) at 7:30 on KQED Channel 9
Read MoreAugust 18, 2011
Ernie Majer and his team are exploring ways to increase the productivity and effectiveness of energy source recovery and geologic sequestration sites, while simultaneously informing and ensuring the safety of the neighboring public.
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2011
Michael Commer, Gregory Newman of ESD and Filipe R.N.C. Maia of NERSC Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) are designed for efficiently manipulating computer graphics. Their highly parallel architecture makes them also suitable for computing-intensive scientific applications. In a project conducted over the past year and sponsored by Chevron, ESD’s Michael Commer and colleagues at LBNL…
Read MoreFebruary 14, 2011
Source: Dan Goldstein, energyNOW! Dan interviews ESD’s Energy Resources Program Head & Geophysics Department scientist Ernie Majer about the connection between EGS and earthquakes. The report seeks to explain the new drilling techniques and approaches to enhanced geothermal systems. View the full video here » Also Reported in TABL »
Read MoreJanuary 26, 2011
Matthew T. Reagan and George J. MoridisEarth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scott M. Elliott, Mathew Maltrud, Philip W. JonesCOSIM (Climate Ocean Sea Ice Modeling), Los Alamos National Laboratory Vast quantities of methane are trapped in oceanic hydrate deposits, with estimates of 3,000, 10,000, or even 74,000 gigatons of methane carbon trapped as hydrate…
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