A few changes in leadership took effect on February 14 as described below. Susan Hubbard, the founding Associate Laboratory Director (ALD) for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), left Berkeley Lab to begin a new role as the Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) on March 1.…
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This article was originally published on the Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences website. By Elizabeth Ball As winter falls in a remote corner of Colorado, in a mountainous watershed on the Upper Colorado River, hundreds of sensors continue their work, day in and day out: forming a detailed quantitative picture of the watershed by collecting…
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Mike Whittaker, research scientist in the Energy Geoscience Division, is a co-founder of the Lithium Resource Research and Innovation Center-a group that researches how to satisfy the increasing lithium demand as renewable energy sources become essential to achieving net zero emissions. On January 19, Whittaker led a virtual event, “Critical Materials and Minerals (CMM) Town…
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Newsha Ajami, a recognized scientific researcher and environmental policy expert, has joined Berkeley Lab’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) as the Chief Development Officer for Research. In this role, Ajami will work to advance new and strategic partnerships, projects, initiatives, and impact within EESA. Ajami joins EESA from Stanford University where she was the…
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When it comes to nuclear power, the uranium at the heart of fuel rods is also this power source’s Achilles’ heel. When power plants shut down or the fuel rods in nuclear reactors become inefficient, the high-level nuclear waste resulting from the spent fuel created from running these plants could stay radioactive for thousands of years.…
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Susan Hubbard has been named Deputy for Science and Technology at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Credit: Berkeley Lab. News release from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, December 27, 2021 Susan Hubbard, an acclaimed scientific leader and researcher, has been named Deputy for Science and Technology at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Her appointment…
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This news release appeared first at newscenter.lbl.gov A new study finds that plants are photosynthesizing more in response to more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but nowhere near enough to remove all emissions. (Credit: baona/iStock) Because plants take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into food, forests and other similar ecosystems are considered…
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This news release appeared first at newscenter.lbl.gov If you had a jar of marbles of many different colors but wanted only the green ones, how could you efficiently pick them out? What if it wasn’t marbles but a jar of glitter, and there was sand, glue, and mud mixed in? That begins to describe the…
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In recognition of her outstanding research during her PhD at the Iowa State University, Lin Meng, now a postdoctoral scholar with the NGEE-Tropics project in Berkeley Lab’s Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, has been awarded this year’s Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For her…
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EESA research scientist Michelle Newcomer co-chaired a November 15-16 workshop to help inform and catalyze the DOE Earth and Environmental System Sciences Division’s (EESSD) growing interests and approaches to addressing the scientific and societal challenge of enhancing predictive understanding of integrated mountain hydro-climate. For the purposes of this workshop, integrated mountain hydroclimate is defined as…
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