Christophe Tournassat, currently an EESA visiting faculty scientist in the Energy Geosciences Division, has been named by the Clay Minerals Society to receive the Marion L. and Christie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award for his contributions to the clay mineralogy field. He will receive the award during the 60th anniversary of the Clay Mineral…
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From the climate crisis to water insecurity, high-quality, openly available data are needed to solve global environmental challenges. However, important environmental systems science (ESS) data often remains difficult to access, unarchived, or even unusable. To help improve access to and use of ESS data, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supported the establishment of the…
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Senior Scientist Ken Williams has received a Director’s Award for Stewardship this year in recognition of the role he’s played in creating first-of-their-kind, world-class experimental field observatories, including North America’s first atmosphere-to-bedrock field study site hosting the DOE Watershed SFA Project and SAIL campaign, as well as Earth’s foremost subsurface microbial observatory at Rifle, Colorado.…
Read MoreCongratulations to Research Scientist Neslihan Taş for receiving a 2021 Outstanding Mentor award from Berkeley Lab Workforce Development & Education. This award recognizes those who go above and beyond to teach aspiring STEM professionals. Taş received the award for the Fall 2021 mentor term but is a regular advocate for mentees and the mentoring…
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Torrential rains in Venezuela early last week provoked a devastating landslide, adding to the deluge of stunning climatic events of the past month. With locations around the globe receiving larger amounts of intense rainfall over shorter periods of time under climate change, bigger, costlier landslides that directly impact infrastructure have become more frequent–and urbanization exacerbates…
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SUMMATION–or SUper eMitters of Methane detection using Aircraft, Towers, and Intensive Observational Network–is a Berkeley Lab-led collaborative project with University of California Riverside, Stanford University, Central California Asthma Collaborative and Scientific Aviation. The project goal is to develop a strategy for cost-effective sustained methane monitoring and identify California’s “super emitters” of methane in the Southern…
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Extreme weather, floods, drought, and land-use change are impacting nutrient, element, and water cycling within mountainous watersheds that provide 60-90 percent of the world’s freshwater. Changes in precipitation and snowmelt influence the quantity and timing of water in streams and rivers. However, these changes can also affect water quality because they affect the fate and…
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EESA Research Scientist Sebastian Uhlemann has been named the recipient of the Near-Surface Geophysics Early Career Achievement Award from AGU, the American Geophysical Union. Each year, AGU sections such as the Near-Surface Geophysics Section, recognize outstanding work by professionals within their fields by granting awards and hosting numerous lectures. More information about all the awardees…
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Scientists have known since the 70s about the possibility that injection of fluids deep into Earth’s subsurface can reactivate a geological fault by increasing pore pressure and consequently reducing stress. The practice has shown since then that injecting large quantities of fluids into deep rock formations has the potential to provoke unwanted fault slip and…
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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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