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Environmental and Biological Systems Sciences Program Area

Post Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Climate Sciences Department Environmental and Biological Systems Sciences Program Area GC-Microbial Engines GC-Resilient Systems Initiative

Scientists Developing Smart Testbed to Help Improve Access to Important Environmental Data

November 10, 2017

EESA research scientists are working to establish integrated networks of multiple sensors capable of remote telemetry to help bring the data environmental scientists need to their desktops on a more timely basis and to improve data analysis.

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Apply for a UC Global Food Initiative Student Fellowship!

September 8, 2015

UC Office of the President has announced the 2nd year of the UC Global Food Initiative (UCGFI) student fellowship! The application period is now open and applications are due on October 2nd. Berkeley Lab’s UCGFI Program is led by Peter Nico of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Earth Sciences Division. Visit the Berkeley Lab…

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Post Announcements Environmental and Biological Systems Sciences Program Area Environmental Remediation & Water Resources Program Nuclear Energy & Waste Program

Using SFA 2.0 case studies and ASCEM tools and methods to aid international remediation efforts for uranium mining sites

August 16, 2015

At IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Boris Faybishenko (Earth & Environmental Sciences, LBNL) participated in a July 2015 workshop on preparation of an IAEA Technical Report on Remediation of Groundwater and Acid and Metalliferous Drainage (AMD) at Uranium Mining Sites. Boris, who is an IAEA Technical Expert, and colleagues from Australia, Canada, USA and Czech Republic, will…

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Post Announcements Ecology Department Ecosystems Biology Program Environmental and Biological Sciences Environmental and Biological Systems Sciences Program Area In The Press

Coffee berry borer’s gut microbes detoxify caffeine

July 14, 2015

Caffeine Fiend - coffee berry borer

ESD’s Javier Ceja-Navarro (lead author) and Eoin Brodie, with researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Mexico’s El College de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), discovered that coffee berry borers rely on bacteria in their guts to detoxify the massive amounts of caffeine they consume when they eat caffeine-rich coffee beans, their sole source of…

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Post Ecology Department Environmental and Biological Sciences Environmental and Biological Systems Sciences Program Area In The Press

Energy Future: The Gut of an Insect?

May 11, 2015

ESD’s Javier Ceja-Navarro was featured this past week (May 7, 2015) in a video presentation within a Gizmodo article, on the potential of biofuel derived from insects—“a strange new future for agriculture and energy production.”

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Post Environmental and Biological Systems Sciences Program Area Environmental Remediation & Water Resources Program Geophysics Department Research Highlight

Williams featured in DOE JGI’s collaborating science videos on Genomes-to-Watershed SFA

April 13, 2015

ESD’s Ken Williams, recently featured in DOE JGI's collaborating science videos, describes the Genomes-to-Watershed Scientific Focus Area research activities at the Rifle, Colorado.

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Complex Soil Systems: An Energetic Exchange

September 11, 2014

Eoin Brodie and Boris Faybishenko recently co-chaired the first Complex Soil Systems Conference in downtown Berkeley. This flagship conference, strove to develop “A Path to Improved Understanding of Complex Soil Systems.”

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Post Bioenergy Program Ecology Department Environmental and Biological Systems Sciences Program Area Research Highlight

Insect Ecosystem Contains Biofuel Clues

July 25, 2014

ESD’s Javier Ceja-Navarro and others have characterized the gut microbiome of a wood-feeding beetle native to the eastern US, finding in its gut a metabolic capability permitting both aerobic and anaerobic activity, as well as N2 fixation.

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Post Bioenergy Program Ecology Department Environmental and Biological Systems Sciences Program Area Research Highlight

Biofuels: Increasing Bacterial Fatty Acids

May 8, 2014

Harry Beller and others recently found homologs of Escherichia coli FabG, an essential reductase involved in fatty acid biosynthesis, in work that could serve as a starting point for microbial production of fatty acid-derived biofuels.

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Post Environmental and Biological Systems Sciences Program Area Environmental Remediation & Water Resources Program Geochemistry Department Research Highlight

Isotope Modeling as Bioremediation Tool

April 23, 2014

Jennifer Druhan and others incorporated the stable isotopes of sulfur within a reactive-transfer code to model the range of microbially mediated redox processes affecting isotope fractionation—potentially important for bioremediation.

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