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CEC Funds Research into How Wind Turbines Impact Wildlife
A project led by Yuxin Wu has been awarded a $2 million grant by the California Energy Commission’s Electric Program Investment Charge. He will lead research over about three years into using fiber optic sensing for real-time monitoring of how wind turbine failures, particularly in California’s earthquake-prone coastal regions, impact marine animals. Learn more about…
Read MoreDOE Awards Smart Farming Project Co-Led by Berkeley Lab
Under the leadership of Nicola Falco and Haruko Wainwright, Berkeley Lab partners with Arva Intelligence to enhance commercial applications of artificial intelligence in precision agriculture by integrating existing data sources. In January, the project was awarded up to $200,000 to develop machine learning software to integrate the DOE’s environmental databases to help analyze effective sustainable…
Read MoreEGD Scientists Contribute Expertise About DOE Underground Research Laboratories
A number of countries have operated underground research laboratories (URLs) in different types of potential host rocks to support the development of deep geologic repositories for the disposal of radioactive waste. URLs enable research and development (R&D) activities to be conducted under subsurface conditions and at scales relevant to repository environments. Since 2012, the U.S.…
Read MoreBerkeley Lab-CSUEB Internship Collaboration Is Changing Lives
Brenda Delgadillo Moreno felt she couldn’t afford to work as an unpaid intern while an undergraduate student at Cal State University East Bay (CSUEB)–as much as she knew it would help her future science career. Then last spring she was juggling full-time administrative work in the university registrar’s office with starting her master’s…
Read MoreFaculty scientist Jill Banfield authors paper on huge bacteria-eating viruses
Jill Banfield, a UC Berkeley professor and EESA faculty scientist, co-led a team to discover 351 different huge bacteria-eating phages. One of these is the largest bacteriophage known to date with a genome that at 735,000 pairs long, is nearly 15 times longer than the average phage. According to UC Berkeley, university researchers and their collaborators…
Read MoreHigh School Art Students Visit EESA
Students from The Branson School visited EESA on February 12 to learn from scientists engaged in climate, energy, and water research. Their visit featured a presentation by Associate Laboratory Director for EESA Susan Hubbard who introduced the students to Berkeley Lab and a tour of the Advanced Light Source. The students then went to Pers…
Read MoreFaculty Scientist Dan Stolper Awarded Sloan Fellowship
EESA faculty scientist Dan Stolper is among nine faculty members at UC Berkeley to be awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship, an honor given yearly to the brightest up-and-coming scientists in the United States and Canada. They are among 126 fellowships announced February 12. Since the first Sloan Research Fellowships were awarded in 1955, 282 UC…
Read MoreMichelle Newcomer, Margaret Torn, and Susan Hubbard Participate in AAAS Annual Meeting
EESA Research Scientist Michelle Newcomer, Senior Scientist Margaret Torn, and Associate Laboratory Director for EESA Susan Hubbard participated in last week’s AAAS Annual Meeting, February 13-16. Hubbard moderated a panel on wildfire hosted by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). Organized by Sarah Brady and Teresa Feo of CCST, the panel featured the…
Read MoreSusan Hubbard Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Susan Hubbard, Senior Scientist and Associate Laboratory Director for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab, is one of 87 members and 18 international members to be newly elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today. Election of new NAE members is the culmination of a yearlong process, which began when the…
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