Congratulations to Geothermal Systems Program Lead and Staff Scientist Patrick Dobson, who has won a 2022 Geothermal Rising Conference (GRC) Outstanding Research Award. The GRC Awards have recognized distinguished colleagues in the geothermal community from around the world since the 1970s. Award recipients have made significant achievements in the geothermal academic, scientific, and commercial communities.…
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California has the fifth largest economy in the world and is home to one of the largest agricultural regions in the United States. However, California water resources are extremely vulnerable to climate change–in part because much of historical precipitation falls at or near the freezing line, so that small increases in temperature will have big…
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Through its leadership of the NGEE-Tropics project, EESA and partners around the world are exploring how tropical ecosystems are changing in response to climate and land-use change. This type of leadership, according to an August 16 editorial in Nature, is more important than ever. Dense tropical forests cover only about 8% of Earth’s land…
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Fabio Ciulla, who received his B.S and M.S in physics from the University of Rome La Sapienza and his Ph.D. from Northeastern University, is a postdoc fellow in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division. Ciulla has researched both natural and social sciences, including modeling the spread of epidemics and studying how information diffuses in social…
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EESA’s new Ingenuity Internship program helps the next generation entering the geologic nuclear waste disposal workforce gain experience with research projects ranging from simulating contaminant migration in rocks to conducting clay experiments to study water movement in the subsurface. After excelling in the sciences throughout high school and his undergraduate program, 2022 Ingenuity intern Hang…
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EESA’s new Ingenuity Internship program helps the next generation entering the geologic nuclear waste disposal workforce gain experience with research projects ranging from simulating contaminant migration in rocks to conducting clay experiments to study water movement in the subsurface. After 2022 Ingenuity Intern Toshiyuki Bandai studied soil physics in his Bachelor’s and Master’s programs at…
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EESA’s new Ingenuity Internship program helps the next generation entering the geologic nuclear waste disposal workforce gain experience with research projects ranging from simulating contaminant migration in rocks to conducting clay experiments to study water movement in the subsurface. Equipped with a Master’s degree in geology, 2022 Ingenuity Intern Elijah Adeniyi has been eager to…
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Daniel Stolper is among five Berkeley Lab researchers to receive funding through the Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program (ECRP), and is one of just 83 nationwide to be selected this year by the DOE for this prestigious award. Stolper is an EESA faculty scientist with a joint appointment at UC Berkeley, where he…
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On May 31, a delegation of students from Wageningen University & Research Center (WUR) Microbiology and Systems Biology Groups in the Netherlands came to visit EESA’s Ecology department. WUR is a highly esteemed world-class Dutch university that trains specialists in a variety of life sciences disciplines. WUR’s research and teaching activities range from sustainable agriculture…
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Wildfires are increasing in severity and frequency worldwide. A new report called Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires indicates that wildfires are responsible for significant economic, environmental, and sociopolitical damage (UNEP, GRID-Arendal, 2021). They also contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions – thereby further fueling climate change. Researchers need to…
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