Berkeley Lab is working to address barriers to more widespread deployment of offshore wind in California, where floating wind turbines could be a viable option. (Credit: SarahGower/iStock) Fiber optic cables, it turns out, can be incredibly useful scientific sensors. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have studied them for use in carbon sequestration, groundwater…
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A research team led by EESA faculty scientist Jonathan Ajo-Franklin published a paper in Nature Scientific Reports that has been named one of the top 100 downloaded Earth science papers for the journal in 2019. Since its publication in February 2019, the paper, Distributed Acoustic Sensing Using Dark Fiber for Near-Surface Characterization and Broadband…
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This article originally was published by the Computing Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab. Read below, or here. When bright green leaves start appearing and the scent of fragrant spring blossoms fills the air, we know the darker days of winter are behind us and the full bloom of spring is near. But every year…
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This article was originally published on the website of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. It was authored by Shannon Brescher Shea, a senior writer/editor in the Office of Science’s Office of Communication and Public Affairs. Ice crashed down on the windshield of the small plane. Rain pounded the wings. Water sloshed inside…
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A project led by Yuxin Wu has been awarded a $2 million grant by the California Energy Commission’s Electric Program Investment Charge. He will lead research over about three years into using fiber optic sensing for real-time monitoring of how wind turbine failures, particularly in California’s earthquake-prone coastal regions, impact marine animals. Learn more about…
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Under the leadership of Nicola Falco and Haruko Wainwright, Berkeley Lab partners with Arva Intelligence to enhance commercial applications of artificial intelligence in precision agriculture by integrating existing data sources. In January, the project was awarded up to $200,000 to develop machine learning software to integrate the DOE’s environmental databases to help analyze effective sustainable…
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A number of countries have operated underground research laboratories (URLs) in different types of potential host rocks to support the development of deep geologic repositories for the disposal of radioactive waste. URLs enable research and development (R&D) activities to be conducted under subsurface conditions and at scales relevant to repository environments. Since 2012, the U.S.…
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Brenda Delgadillo Moreno felt she couldn’t afford to work as an unpaid intern while an undergraduate student at Cal State University East Bay (CSUEB)–as much as she knew it would help her future science career. Then last spring she was juggling full-time administrative work in the university registrar’s office with starting her master’s…
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Jill Banfield, a UC Berkeley professor and EESA faculty scientist, co-led a team to discover 351 different huge bacteria-eating phages. One of these is the largest bacteriophage known to date with a genome that at 735,000 pairs long, is nearly 15 times longer than the average phage. According to UC Berkeley, university researchers and their collaborators…
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