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
- 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
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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