By Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ph.D. (@DrAlkaTrip) The Mw 7.1 earthquake on July 5, 2019, was the largest quake California has seen in 20 years. Part of the so-called Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, the Mw 7.1 event served as a reminder of the seismic hazard associated with living on the West Coast of the United States. Although…
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EESA research scientist Charuleka Varadharajan has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science to receive significant funding for research through its Early Career Research Program. The program, now in its tenth year, is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career…
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George Moridis was honored by the Society of Petroleum Engineers with the John Franklin Carll Award, which recognizes distinguished contributions in the application of engineering principles to petroleum development and recovery. Learn more.
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Don DePaolo has been honored with the Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Award from the Geochemical Society. The award is given for major achievements in geochemistry or cosmochemistry, consisting of either a single outstanding contribution, or a series of publications that have had great influence on the field. The award will be presented to Don DePaolo next…
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Bill Collins, director of the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, has been selected by AGU as the 2019 Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecturer. The Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture honors the life and work of physicist, John Tyndall. Tyndall’s measurements in the late 1850s and early 1860s verified the importance of…
Read MoreFour postdoctoral fellows have been awarded EESA Early Career Development Grants. Each of the four projects is aligned with different goals of the EESA Strategic Plan. Chun Chang’s project, Producing Oil-in-Water Nanoemulsion for Efficient Proppant Emplacement Using Hydrodynamic Cavitation, is relevant to the Sustainable Earth Grand Challenge; Michael Whittaker’s project, Observing Geochemistry with Atomic Resolution,…
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Scientists collect samples in the Rocky Mountains as part of the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area project. (Credit: Roy Kaldschmidt/Berkeley Lab) The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently received federal approval to proceed with preliminary design work for a state-of-the-art building that would revolutionize investigations into how interactions among microbes, water, soil,…
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Drilling a single oil or natural gas well with hydraulic fracturing requires between 1.5 to 16 million gallons of water. When the well starts flowing, the fluid that is brought back to the surface alongside the oil and gas is a combination of the injection fluid and brine from aquifers – a difficult-to-treat mixture known as…
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As world population grows, so do concerns that water availability and water quality will continue to diminish. Changes in land use, climate change, and extreme weather exacerbate these concerns, which threaten not only our fresh water supply but also systems that rely on watershed exports, such as hydropower and agriculture. Although watersheds are recognized as…
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Growing up in Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa, Tadewos Getachew witnessed firsthand the lack of access to clean drinking water. He closely watched the city grapple with infrastructure challenges related to treating waste water or fixing leakages in the water distribution system. Getachew realized that he wanted to develop engineering solutions. “I wanted to build a…
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