FY2017 LDRD Awards to EESA Scientists - Earth and Environmental Sciences Area

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:

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Awards to support Microbes to Biomes

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

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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—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—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

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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…