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Carl Steefel Named 2019 American Geophysical Union Fellow

August 14, 2019

Carl Steefel, a senior scientist in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab, has been named by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as a 2019 AGU Fellow. Every year, the AGU Fellows program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to the Earth and Space sciences. Vetted by a committee of AGU Fellows, honorees…

Dark fiber publication one of 2019’s top 100 Scientific Reports earth science papers

March 23, 2020

A research team led by EESA faculty scientist Jonathan Ajo-Franklin published a paper in Nature Scientific Reports that has been named one of the top 100 downloaded Earth science papers for the journal in 2019. Since its publication in February 2019, the paper, Distributed Acoustic Sensing Using Dark Fiber for Near-Surface Characterization and Broadband Seismic…

Earlier Spring Foliage Brings Warmer Air to the North

This article originally was published by the Computing Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab. Read below, or here. When bright green leaves start appearing and the scent of fragrant spring blossoms fills the air, we know the darker days of winter are behind us and the full bloom of spring is near. But every year this…

Flooding the Sky: Navigating the Science of Atmospheric Rivers

This article was originally published on the website of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. It was authored by Shannon Brescher Shea, a senior writer/editor in the Office of Science’s Office of Communication and Public Affairs. Ice crashed down on the windshield of the small plane. Rain pounded the wings. Water sloshed inside important…

COVID-19 Resources for our EESA Community

March 19, 2020