The Seismic Monitoring (Strong Motion) of LBNL Buildings Program has the primary objective of providing accurate measurements of acceleration time histories during significant earthquakes that affect LBNL sites and site structures. The Program consists of building monitoring systems and free field monitoring stations.
Michelle Robertson
mcrobertson@lbl.gov
This project aims to evaluate whether addition of silicate materials (rock dust and/or clean industrial by-products) to rice agriculture can have two simultaneously climate benefits, namely decreasing methane emissions while increasing soil carbon storage. The work proposed herein focuses on three tasks: 1) mesocosm experiments for evaluating key variables; 2) reactive transport modeling for process…
Peter S. Nico
psnico@lbl.gov
Bhavna Arora
barora@lbl.gov
In this work, EESA scientists are using biology to develop ways of accessing oil and coal that expend less energy and release fewer greenhouse gases. For instance, biological processes might be used to coax oil from below ground or to alter the semi-porous rock that holds oil, making it flow to the surface. Making it easier to access hard-to-reach domestic oil reserves will help ensure that oil remains part of a diverse mix of energy choices.
Private: Gary Andersen
glandersen@lbl.gov
Research in Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Waste Program are mostly funded by DOE’s Spent Fuel & Waste Science and Technology (SFWST) Campaign. In support of Campaign’s mission, Berkeley Lab scientists are now leading research and technology development to enable long-term waste disposal in other host-rock environments, such as shale, salt rock, and crystalline rock, and alternative repository designs.
LianGe Zheng
lzheng@lbl.gov
Elizabeth (Lizz) Mahoney ejmahoney@lbl.gov
This project characterizes the life-cycle dynamics of moist convection using stereo photogrammetry in combination with other instruments at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) sites, and using large-eddy simulations to help interpret those observations. Stereo cameras are used to characterize the sizes, speeds, circulations, and ascent distances of individual convective bubbles through their life cycle. These data on cloud life cycles are difficult, if not impossible, to obtain with other ARM instruments.
David Romps
dromps@lbl.gov
The Eagle Ford Shale Laboratory (EFSL) Project The Eagle Ford Shale Laboratory: A Field Study of the Stimulated Reservoir Volume, Detailed Fracture Characteristics, and EOR Potential OBJECTIVES The ultimate objective of this project is to help improve the effectiveness of shale oil production by providing new scientific knowledge and new monitoring technology for both…
Jens Birkholzer
jtbirkholzer@lbl.gov
Julia Correa
juliacorrea@lbl.gov
Reed Helgens
rhelgens@lbl.gov
The EGS Collab Project is addressing fundamental challenges in understanding the relationship between permeability creation, induced seismicity, and heat production in crystalline rocks under relevant stress (and temperature) conditions for Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)...
Tim Kneafsey
tjkneafsey@lbl.gov
Patrick F. Dobson
pfdobson@lbl.gov
Susan Sprinkle
ssprinkle@lbl.gov
The Hydraulic Fracturing Field Test (HFTS) project, fielded within the Wolfcamp Formation in the Permian Basin, provides an excellent opportunity to further develop our understanding of the geomechanical response to hydraulic stimulation and associated fluid transport and hydrocarbon production in nano-porous lithologies. The drilling program was designed to elucidate the intra- and inter-well stress interactions…
Jens Birkholzer
jtbirkholzer@lbl.gov
Reed Helgens
rhelgens@lbl.gov
We seek to understand and model the effects of salinity on geochemical processes occurring in aqueous environments including nanopores and interlayers in clay media, thin water films in unsaturated porous media, and solutions in which mineral nanoparticles nucleate, aggregate and grow. The overall goal is to identify conceptual models of salinity effects on complex geochemical…
Benjamin Gilbert
bgilbert@lbl.gov
The TOUGH (“Transport Of Unsaturated Groundwater and Heat”) suite of software codes are multi-dimensional numerical models for simulating the coupled transport of water, vapor, non-condensible gas, and heat in porous and fractured media. Developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in the early 1980s primarily for geothermal reservoir engineering, the suite of simulators is now widely used throughout the world.
Stefan Finsterle safinsterle@lbl.gov
George J. Moridis
gjmoridis@lbl.gov
Curtis M. Oldenburg cmoldenburg@lbl.gov
Eric L. Sonnenthal
elsonnenthal@lbl.gov
Yingqi Zhang
yqzhang@lbl.gov
