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EESA Celebrates International Day of Women & Girls in Science

February 24, 2021

On 11 February, the United Nations, Berkeley Lab, and other organizations worldwide marked the 6th annual International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The day focuses on the reality that science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of international development goals, such as climate change mitigation. Susan Hubbard, Associate Laboratory Director…

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EESA Scientists Contribute to DOE GTO Research on Critical Minerals

February 24, 2021

  Scientists in the Energy Geosciences Division are contributing to research sponsored by the DOE Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO) investigating the potential extraction of lithium, rare earth elements, and other critical minerals that are dissolved constituents of hot geothermal brines that are used to produce  electricity. Far more information is currently needed, for instance, about…

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CSA News Calls Out Recent NGEE-Tropics Research

February 22, 2021

iStock Aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil

  CSA News, the magazine of three related societies: the Agronomy Society of America, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, published an article in its January 2021 issue describing research led by research scientist Robinson Negrón Juárez, on behalf of the NGEE-Tropics project. The article highlights a paper published recently…

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Two EESA Women Chosen for the 2020 Women @ The Lab Awards

February 9, 2021

Two EESA women, Sandy Chin and Laura Nielsen Lammers, were chosen for the 2020 Women @ The Lab awards. They join an esteemed cohort of 15 women across Berkeley Lab who have made and continue to make significant contributions in the areas of leadership, science, operations, mentorship, and outreach.  Sandy Chin, who recently assumed the…

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ExxonMobil Becomes Member in National Alliance for Water Innovation

February 9, 2021

The National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) announced today that ExxonMobil has officially joined the Alliance as a member. In 2019 NAWI was selected to lead a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy-Water Desalination Hub to support United States water security. As a founding member of the NAWI Research Consortium, ExxonMobil is part of a…

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New Watershed Function SFA Study Holds Implications for Future Western Water Supply

February 3, 2021

East River watershed, Colorado CA

This news release was published by the Desert Research Institute on February 1, 2021. Rosemary Carroll of DRI worked in partnership with Kenneth Williams, deputy director of the Berkeley Lab-led DOE Watershed Function SFA project, to explore explore the importance of monsoon rain in streamflow generation in a Colorado River headwater basin. In the summer of…

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Getting to Net Zero – and Even Net Negative – is Surprisingly Feasible, and Affordable

January 29, 2021

Regardless of the pathway we take to become carbon neutral by 2050, the actions needed in the next 10 years are the same. (Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab) Reaching zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from energy and industry by 2050 can be accomplished by rebuilding U.S. energy infrastructure to run primarily on renewable energy, at a…

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Sigrid Dengel Receives Award at NGEE-Arctic All-Hands Meeting

January 28, 2021

At the 10th annual NGEE-Arctic all-hands meeting this week, EESA scientific engineering associate Sigrid Dengel was honored with an NGEE-Arctic Data Award for having the most popular data set ever for the project, assessed by downloads from the project data portal! The data was obtained from an eddy flux site in Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska, at…

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EESA Members Invited to Join Pod: Unlearning Racism in Geoscience

January 27, 2021

  This week marks the launch of a new education and training course called Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE). Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, URGE‘s primary objectives are to (1) deepen the community’s knowledge of the effects of racism on the participation and retention of Black, Brown, and…

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Six Scientists Awarded EESA Early Career Development Grants

January 26, 2021

  Six early career scientists have been awarded EESA Early Career Development Grants. Each project is aligned with the goals of the EESA Strategic Vision.  The EESA Early Career Development Grant (ECDG) program provides an opportunity for early career scientific staff to develop new concepts, tools, and approaches with the potential to complement/enhance existing EESA…

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