On June 4, Lara Kueppers, a faculty Scientist in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Assistant Professor in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley participated in a panel on Drought Impacts on Forests and Expected Wildfire Behavior at the UC Wildfire Research Symposium. The half-day event was developed by UC…
Read MoreA team composed of researchers from the BES Geoscience group in EGD, the Advanced Light Source, and the University of Utah, has constructed a brand-new X-ray nanotomography instrument at beamline 11.3.1 at the ALS. The researchers look forward to the instrument becoming a valuable resource for Earth and materials scientists in EESA and beyond. Above: The…
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This interview was conducted and written by Ruby Barcklay and first appeared on Berkeley Lab’s internal websites. Charuleka Varadharajan, a research scientist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), was interested in the nexus of environmental science and computation even as an undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai. Her thesis explored…
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This interview was conducted and written by Ruby Barcklay and appeared first on Berkeley Lab’s internal website. Scientists in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) are tackling some of the most pressing challenges of our time in order to enable sustainable stewardship and judicious use of the Earth’s resources. To achieve this, EESA’s Climate…
Read MoreA team of researchers was able to reconstruct hundreds of microbial genomes from complex soil samples to show that soils bounded by individual river meanders capture processes that occur in soils bounded by other meanders along the river corridor. A paper describing their study was recently published in the journal Microbiome. Their study focuses on…
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EESA research addresses urgent global, national, and state of California needs. For example, EESA scientists are actively studying earthquakes and sea-level rise–both of concern to California and other coastal states–and bringing their expertise to bear on challenges troubling all of the American West, from drought to wildfire to water security. Since 2010 alone, EESA researchers…
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These maps show radiation dose rates in the Fukushima evacuation zone and former evacuation zone over time. At left is data from 2014, at middle is data from 2015, and at right is data from 2016. There is a visible reduction in the areas with higher dose concentrations from 2014 to 2016 – higher concentrations…
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The National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Spring Meeting was held from May 4-5. The Spring Meeting featured opening remarks from Kelly Speakes-Backman, the Acting Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy; presentations by NAWI leadership; and a number of sessions led by NAWI Alliance Members themselves. The attendees, including those from EESA at…
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Energy Geosciences Division researchers are preparing to deploy new instrumentation developed at Berkeley Lab’s Geosciences Measurement Facility in a 500-meter deep borehole drilled across portions of the San Andreas Fault near San Juan Bautista, California, this summer. The goal of the project, being carried out in collaboration with Emily Brodsky and Andrew Barbour of UC…
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This article appeared first at lbl.gov. When a climate-warming gas such as carbon dioxide or methane is emitted into the atmosphere, its impacts may be felt years and even decades into the future – in the form of rising sea levels, changes in agricultural productivity, or more extreme weather events, such as droughts, floods,…
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