April 18, 2012
ESD’s Seiji Nakagawa and his collaborators recently received an award for the best research presentation, at the Annual Symposium for the Geosciences Research Program, within the DOE’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Read MoreFebruary 6, 2012
Scientists at the Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 love talking about their cutting-edge research. They do this, for free, as part of the NCGC Distinguished Lecturer Series, directed toward academia, societies, and industry.
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 MoreAugust 23, 2011
The American Clay Minerals Society has honored ESD’s Glenn Waychunas with the “Pioneer in Clay Science” award, to be bestowed on him at the Clay Minerals Society Annual Meeting at Lake Tahoe, this coming September 25–30.
Read MoreMay 3, 2011
Source: Dan Hawkes A group of earth scientists, prominently including ESD Director Don DePaolo, have for years been studying the massive volcanoes on Hawaii’s Big Island—the largest and most active volcanic system on the planet—to find clues not only to the formation of the Hawaiian Islands, but also to the fundamental workings of Earth. Their…
Read MoreApril 7, 2011
The importance of determining molecular-scale reaction mechanisms in geochemistry At the molecular scale, most geochemical reactions are complex, multistep processes in which the elementary steps occur too quickly for direct observation. Together, these steps define an overall reaction mechanism. Although thermodynamic descriptions of geochemical processes are well established in many cases, knowledge of the mechanism…
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2011
Tetsu Tokunaga, Jiamin Wan, and Young Soo Han—ESD Effective methods for fixing carbon need to be developed o help control the adverse effects of increased atmospheric CO2concentrations. Unlike very deep subsurface reservoirs now being developed for geologic CO2 sequestration, surface soils are readily accessible, and hence are potentially more economical way of sequestering carbon.…
Read MoreDecember 10, 2010
The mineral goethite (a-FeOOH) is one of the most common iron minerals on Earth’s surface. As the chief constituent in many forms of natural rust, it is most obvious as the yellow or brown-red coloring agent in soils and sediments. It is also a microscopic to nanoscale mineral, with a high surface area and high…
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