In the atmosphere, long, narrow, whip-like plumes carry water vapor from the tropics to the mid latitudes. These plumes are shaped by variability in and geographic differences in air pressure. Stretching longer than 1,000 miles, these rivers in the sky called atmospheric rivers can transport massive water vapor amounts, sometimes as much as 15…
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Andrew Jones, research scientist, in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, co-chairs an Urban Systems Working Group for the Multisector Dynamics Community, a group which aims to improve understanding of the co-evolution of human and natural systems over time and foster the interdisciplinary collaborations needed to study complex human-environment interactions. From July 21 through 23, the…
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Berkeley Lab’s Laboratory Directed Research and Development program has informed recipients across the laboratory of new and renewed funding for their projects beginning in October. In EESA, ten individuals will receive funding for new and continuing projects. All EESA projects are named below. Berkeley Lab’s LDRD program exists because the United States Congress has allowed federal Laboratory…
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In the last few months, a group of EESA colleagues have been participating in the nationwide URGE program (Unlearning Racism in Geoscience) as the EESA URGE pod. This educational program was funded by the National Science Foundation to address gaps in diversity in the geosciences, as it is the least diverse STEM discipline at all…
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George Moridis, a senior scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division, has been awarded an Honorary Membership in the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements. Limited to just 0.1% of SPE’s total membership, Honorary Membership in the SPE is the highest honor the nonprofit global professional society presents to an individual.…
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CESD Senior Scientist Margaret Torn was one of three experts invited to participate in the recording of a virtual panel discussion with Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Dr. Jane Lubchenco, the Deputy Director for Climate and Environment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), on Thursday, July 22. The…
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Research Scientist Verónica Rodríguez Tribaldos co-authored an opinion piece for the San Diego Union-Tribune which details how fiber-optic seismometers have come to transform earthquake measurements in recent years, and how an ongoing dark fiber experiment in Imperial Valley has recorded a recent swarm of earthquakes occurring in the area. She co-wrote the piece with two seismologists from…
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EESA research scientist Mengsu Hu was selected as a future leader of the American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) in 2020. Watch a video of her describing her work that is part of a new series of Youtube videos recently initiated by Hu with the support of the ARMA Board of Directors to enhance the scientific visibility…
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This week EGD Research Scientist Michael Whittaker (pictured above at left) is participating in the 2021 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, as part of the UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Fellowship program. Whittaker and Berkeley Lab postdocs Lindsay Bassman (CSA) and Marlene Turner (PSA) are attending virtual lectures and interactive sessions with 40 Nobel laureates from…
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A new cohort of master’s level students will join EESA as interns who will work on year-long research projects on August 1. This is the fourth set of students to participate in the Berkeley Lab Pathbreaker program since it was started as a joint collaboration with Cal State University East Bay (CSUEB) by Berkeley Lab…
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