Fundamental Earth Sciences Program Area

New EESA Study Indicates Greater Capacity for Carbon Storage in the Subsurface

February 6, 2018

New research from the Energy Geosciences Division at Berkeley Lab shows that carbon dioxide can penetrate the inner layers of some non-swelling clay minerals which make up the dominant clays in the Earth's deep subsurface. Results of the work performed at the Center for Nanoscale Controls on Geologic CO2 (NCGC) and the national lab’s Molecular Foundry could help inform practices intended to help limit carbon dioxide emissions, such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

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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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ESD, LBNL Royalties Announced by Tech Transfer

March 3, 2014

As noted in a late February 2014 TABL-Tech Transfer article, ESD scientists recently received Lab royalties for their work.

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ESD Pore-Scale Research among First Challenges to Edison

February 7, 2014

Pore-scale research modeling from ESD scientists Sergi Molins, Carl Steefel, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, and Li Yang was among the first simulations to test NERSC’s new supercomputer Edison.

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ESD Scientists Win LDRD Awards

December 16, 2013

ESD was well represented among Fiscal Year 2014 Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) award winners, as announced this week (12/16/2013) by the Berkeley Lab Directorate.

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Combining Polycrystals with Poroelasticity

November 13, 2013

ESD’s Jim Berryman combines two types of geomechanical analysis—random polycrystal analysis with poroelastic analyses—by treating anisotropic poroelastic grains jumbled together to form an overall polycrystalline poroelastic material

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Honoring Women @ the Lab!

October 24, 2013

ESD Director Susan Hubbard was among 15 women scientists honored at Berkeley Lab, as part of a celebration of women science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workers researching ways to change the world for the better.

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ESD Site Environmentally Stellar

October 15, 2013

The Earth Sciences Division was recently awarded “LEED Platinum” status for its newly redesigned headquarters in Building 74—the first such award for any Berkeley Lab or DOE building within the Science Laboratory Infrastructure program.

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ESD Welcomes Asma Marie

October 9, 2013

Asma Marie will be a guest scientist at ESD this month, as part of the U.S. State Department’s TechWomen 2013 Program. Asma, a native of Libya, will be working in Jiamin Wan’s group within ESD’s Hydrogeology Department.

Post Fundamental Earth Sciences Program Area Geochemistry Department Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program Research Highlight

Iron’s Effect on Carbonation Rates

October 4, 2013

ESD’s Giuseppe Saldi and others studied the effect of Fe on the measured rates of carbonation for the mineral olivine, and its role in the formation of Si-rich surface layers—to help assess repository CO2 sequestration potential.