Source: LBNL TABL and Dan Hawkes
ESD was well represented among Fiscal Year 2014 Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) award winners, as announced this week (12/16/2013) by Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos. The list of ESD awardees (and the titles of their winning projects) is as follows:
Nick Bouskill Developing a Mechanistic High-latitude Biological Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycle Module for Site, Regional, and Global Land Models
Eoin Brodie Integrative Mapping of Soil Heterogeneity at the Microbial Scale
Romy Chakraborty High-throughput Isolation and Functional Screening (HIFS) of Microbes Relevant to Today’s Carbon Cycling and Bioenergy Needs
Jeff Chambers Tropical Forest Ecosystems under a Changing Climate
John Christensen Isotropic Probe of Ion Migration Processes in Li-ion Batteries
Tim Kneafsey A Mesoscale Study of Hydrologic Properties of Shales
Lara Kueppers Using Experiments and Numerical Models to Examine Ecosystem and Land Management Interactions with Atmosphere and Climate
Peter Nico Quantifying the Mesoscale Dynamics that Control Natural Organic Matter Conformation and Reactivity
Jiamin Wan Nanoparticle-Stabilized Supercritical CO2 Foams: Developing Novel Microemulsions for CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery
Congratulations to you all!
To read more about the awards, go to: http://today.lbl.gov/2013/12/16/2014-lab-directed-research-and-development-awards-announced/
For the full list of LBNL award winners, go to: http://today.lbl.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/FY14-LDRD-Projects.pdf