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Projects: Environmental Remediation and Water Resources

Watershed Function SFA

  • Environmental Remediation and Water Resources

The Watershed Function SFA is developing a predictive understanding of how mountainous watersheds retain and release water, nutrients, carbon, and metals. In particular, the SFA is developing understanding and tools to measure and predict how droughts, early snowmelt, and other perturbations impact downstream water availability and biogeochemical cycling at episodic to decadal timescales.

Susan Hubbard

Private: Susan Hubbard sshubbard@lbl.gov 510-486-5266

Jacob Gimbel jgimbel@lbl.gov 510-486-7146

Funded by DOE-SC-Biological and Environmental Research

Advanced Simulation Capability for Environmental Management (ASCEM)

  • Environmental Remediation and Water Resources

Advanced Simulation Capability for Environmental Management (ASCEM) is a software project that aims at developing next-generation, science-based reactive flow and transport simulation capabilities (and supporting modeling toolsets) within a high-performance computing framework, to address the U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Management’s waste storage and environmental cleanup challenges.

Susan Hubbard

Private: Susan Hubbard sshubbard@lbl.gov 510-486-5266

Carl I. Steefel cisteefel@lbl.gov 510-502-3660

Haruko Murakami Wainwright hmwainwright@lbl.gov 510-495-2038

Funded by DOE-EM-Office of Environmental Management

Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment – Arctic

  • Environmental Remediation and Water Resources
  • Terrestrial Ecosystem Science

The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE Arctic) seeks to address challenges by quantifying the physical, chemical, and biological behavior of terrestrial ecosystems in Alaska.

Baptiste Dafflon bdafflon@lbl.gov 510-486-4735

Sandy Chin schin@lbl.gov 510-495-8131

Predictive Agriculture Initiative

  • Environmental Remediation and Water Resources

Berkeley Lab’s Predictive Agricultural Initiative, as part of the UC Global Food Initiative launched in late 2014, focuses on mining existing data to understand the impacts of changing climate on California agriculture. For this project, in collaboration with UC Davis, Lab scientists work to develop new scientific approaches to increase food production, while simultaneously decreasing inputs of water and fertilizers.

Peter S. Nico psnico@lbl.gov 510-486-7118

Funded by DOE-SC-Biological and Environmental Research

IDEAS: Computational Challenges in Building Virtual Terrestrial Ecosystems

  • Environmental Remediation and Water Resources

EESA’s Genomes-to-Watershed and NGEE-Arctic projects seek to take advantage of new scientific software capabilities by incorporating a recently initiated DOE-Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)–BER-funded project, entitled Interoperable Design of Extreme-Scale Application Software (IDEAS). This project pursues the development and demonstration of new approaches for producing, using, and supporting scientific software. It will establish methodologies and tools that facilitate delivery of software as reusable, interoperable components.

Carl I. Steefel cisteefel@lbl.gov 510-502-3660

Funded by DOE-SC-Biological and Environmental Research

SBIR Phase II: Predictive Assimilation Framework for Subsurface Process Prediction

  • Environmental Remediation and Water Resources

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project concentrates on the creation of a predictive assimilation framework (PAF) for contaminated sites. This PAF would autonomously assimilate different site-related data streams into numerical models, and provide information on current (and future) site and system behavior to site stakeholders. The technical and scientific capabilities of the PAF are developed and tested by incorporating (into adequate numerical models) a variety of hydrological, geophysical and biogeochemical datasets from a highly instrumented site (the DOE Rifle Subsurface Biogeochemistry Field Observatory in Rifle, Colorado).

Susan Hubbard

Private: Susan Hubbard sshubbard@lbl.gov 510-486-5266

Kenneth H. Williams khwilliams@lbl.gov 510-701-1089

Baptiste Dafflon bdafflon@lbl.gov 510-486-4735

Funded by DOE-SC-Biological and Environmental Research

Exploring a Changing Arctic Environment Using Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing Methods (DoD–SERDP)

  • Environmental Remediation and Water Resources

LBNL-ESD and the U.S. Army Core of Engineers—Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (USACE—CRREL) are collaborating to explore the use of distributed fiber-optic sensors to monitor the state of permafrost underlying transportation infrastructure, such as roads, runways, and rail lines.

Jonathan Ajo-Franklin jbajo-franklin@lbl.gov 510-495-2728

Funded by DOE-SC-Biological and Environmental Research

ExaSheds

  • Environmental Remediation and Water Resources

As the 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 freshwater supply, but also systems that rely on watershed exports such as hydropower and agriculture.

Carl I. Steefel cisteefel@lbl.gov 510-502-3660

Dipankar Dwivedi ddwivedi@lbl.gov 510-486-4005

Funded by DOE-SC-Biological and Environmental Research

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