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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

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  From the tops of tree canopies to the bottom of groundwater reservoirs, a vast amount of living organisms interact with nonliving components such as rock, water, and soil to shape this area of Earth known as the “critical zone.” Over half of Earth’s microbes are located in the subsurface critical zone, which ranges from…

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DOE Funds Projects to Advance Forest Carbon Dioxide Removal Efforts and Agricultural Soil Carbon Conservation4 min read

August 1, 2023

The DOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) and Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) recently announced $5 million in funding for four projects–two from Berkeley Lab with EESA leadership. The projects selected offer “promising solutions” to the nation’s climate change challenges by helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and will “accelerate their deployment…

Quantifying the strength of the land carbon sink3 min read

July 26, 2023

This article first appeared at nature.berkeley.edu/news. The world’s forests, grasslands, and other terrestrial ecosystems have played a substantial role in offsetting human carbon emissions—a capability that UC Berkeley researchers say would be threatened by continued global change. The assessment, published today as a new review paper in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, presents a comprehensive analysis of…

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