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FY2017 LDRD Awards to EESA Scientists1 min read

by Marilyn Saarni on October 13, 2016

Announcements Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Climate Sciences Department Ecology Department Energy Geosciences Division Geochemistry Department Geophysics Department

Congratulations to EESA’s 12 FY2017 LDRD award recipients! LDRDs support high-quality science proposals, especially those that advance new strategic directions for EESA and the Berkeley Lab.

Here are this year’s awardees:

Lab-wide strategic growth

Awards to support Microbes to Biomes

Eoin Brodie portrait  Javier Ceja Navarro portrait.

  • Eoin Brodie—Harnessing the soil microbiome for food and fuel security
  • Javier Ceja Navarro—The Soil Metazoan Microbiome: A compartment of importance to soil nutrient cycling

Awards to support Water-Energy Systems

Andrew Jones portrait..  William Stringfellow portrait  Peter Nico portrait

  • Andrew Jones—Ultra High Resolution Climate Projections to Support Climate Readiness in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • William Stringfellow—Characterizing the Environmental Impact of Chemical Compounds Used in O&G Development
  • Peter Nico—Developing Science Based Scalable Approaches to Groundwater Banking EESA strategic growth

EESA strategic growth

Awards to support Dynamic Biological-Environmental Feedbacks Across Scales

Trevor Keenan portrait  Neslihan Tas portrait  Yuxin Wu portrait

  • Trevor Keenan—Predicting the maximum rate of carboxylation based on optimal leaf resource allocation
  • Neslihan Tas Baas—Assessing microbial functions at terrestrial-aquatic interfaces by metagenome-based metabolic flux a
  • Yuxin Wu—Remote Monitoring of Soil-Plant Biome Responses to Water and Metal Stresses

Awards to support Earth System Properties and Dynamics

Jonathan Ajo-Franklin portrait  Bhavna Arora portrait  Yves Guglielmi portrait

John Christensen portrait

  • Jonathan Ajo-Franklin—Dark Fiber and Distributed Acoustic Sensing : Opportunities for Critical Infrastructure and Environment
  • Bhavna Arora—Multi-Scale Modeling of Geochemical Impacts on Fracture Evolution John Christensen—Identifying the source and magnitude of redox related metal isotope fractionation
  • Yves Guglielmi—Advanced In-Situ Experiments for Understanding Induced Seismicity
  • John Christensen—Identifying the source and magnitude of redox related metal isotope fractionation

News & Events

EESA Scientists Investigate How Tropical Soil Microbes Might Respond to Future Droughts2 min read

March 14, 2023

As the most biologically diverse terrestrial ecosystems on Earth, tropical rainforests are just as critical to sustaining environmental and human systems as they are beautiful. Their unique climate with high temperatures, humidity, and precipitation promotes high primary productivity, which offsets high respiration, resulting in these ecosystems being one of the largest carbon sinks on Earth,…

Doubling Protected Lands for Biodiversity Could Require Tradeoffs With Other Land Uses, Study Finds4 min read

March 3, 2023

This article first appeared on lbl.gov. Scientists show how 30% protected land targets may not safeguard biodiversity hotspots and may negatively affect other sectors – and how data and analysis can support effective conservation and land use planning Although more than half the world’s countries have committed to protecting at least 30% of land and oceans…

Six Berkeley Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows6 min read

This article first appeared at lbl.gov Six researchers have been elected into the 2022 class of the American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced their 2022 Fellows, including six scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). This lifetime honor, which follows…

Kenichi Soga named to National Academy of Engineers1 min read

February 23, 2023

Faculty scientist Kenichi Soga was named to the National Academy of Engineering (NA), one of the highest honors that can be achieved as an American engineer. Soga is the Donald H. McLaughlin Chair in Mineral Engineering and a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and has conducted groundbreaking research from infrastructure sensing to…

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