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Tackling Indivisible Challenges in Watershed Science through Radical Collaboration

September 27, 2018

The Earth and Environmental Sciences’ Watershed Function project led the first “Watershed Science Collaboration Workshop” during Sept 23-25, 2018 in Crested Butte, CO. Over 100 leading scientists from around the globe joined to identify and discuss crosscutting watershed frontier research challenges. Attendees included microbial and plant ecologists, hydrologists, geochemists, geologists, geophysicists, remote and snow sensing…

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Berkeley Lab, BIDS Take on Big Data

September 4, 2018

The world is currently generating data at a break-neck pace — about 2.5 quintillion bytes per day — and this trend is only accelerating. To make sense of this torrent of information, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) has built an ecosystem of researchers to advance data-analytic methods and inquiry, develop and expand software and analytics tools, and share…

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Accurate Calculations of Radiative Forcing by Carbon Dioxide Can Improve Climate Projections

August 31, 2018

This spring, the DOE unveiled a new climate model designed to achieve a number of mission priorities for the agency by not only predicting how climate will change over time–but also determining how those changes might burden the nation’s energy infrastructure. Experts from Berkeley Lab’s Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division co-led efforts to improve the…

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Berkeley Lab scientists develop technique to better predict how plants in cold regions respond to warming

August 29, 2018

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Trevor Keenan, a scientist in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, participated in a study with UC Berkeley researchers that was published August 20 in Nature Climate Change.  A link to the full story authored by Theresa Duque of Berkeley Lab is below. In recent decades, scientists have noted a surge in…

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Post Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Climate Sciences Department Discovery Geosciences Program Domain Energy Geosciences Division Environmental and Biological Systems Science Program GC-Climate Carbon Sink GC-Future Water GC-Microbial Engines GC-Resilient Systems GC-Sustainable Earth Geophysics Department Geothermal Systems

Geosciences Measurement Facility Celebrates Its 45th Summer Field Season

August 21, 2018

Within the Department of Energy complex of national laboratories, the Geosciences Measurement Facility (GMF) at Berkeley Lab is distinguished by its ability to build, test, and deploy customized instrumentation and innovative data acquisition and telemetry solutions, which are enabling scientists to address some of the most critical Earth, energy and environmental challenges that we face.…

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Post Energy Geosciences Division Energy Resources Program Area Environmental Remediation & Water Resources Program Hydrogeology Department Publication Research Highlight Resilient Energy Water Infrastructure

Algorithm Provides Early Warning System for Tracking Groundwater Contamination

August 13, 2018

Groundwater contamination is increasingly recognized as a widespread environmental problem. The most important course of action often involves long-term monitoring. But what is the most cost-effective way to monitor when the contaminant plumes are large, complex, and long-term, or an unexpected event such as a storm could cause sudden changes in contaminant levels that may…

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Post BES Isotopes Program Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Ecology Department Energy Geosciences Division GC-Future Water GC-Sustainable Earth Geochemistry Department Hydrogeology Department Publication Research Highlight

Berkeley Lab Isotope Geochemists Study Isotopic Fractionation by Plants

August 3, 2018

            Isotope geochemists at Berkeley Lab are the first to establish the degree of Potassium (K) isotopic fractionation by plants. Isotopes are atoms of the same element that have a different number of neutrons. Scientists have just in the past decade begun studying for key nutrient elements (other than C,…

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EESA Operations Team Planned for Progress During Annual Retreat

August 3, 2018

The EESA Operations team held their annual retreat in Wang Hall on June 29.  The day featured team building exercises and breakout sessions focused on launching five key strategies in the form of Progressive Operations Projects (POPs) for the coming year. During an icebreaker designed to set the stage for their POPs breakout sessions, the…

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