The Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is seeking a Research Director to lead the research program for the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI). NAWI is a DOE Energy Innovation Hub dedicated to securing America's water future through innovative water treatment technologies and regional water planning.

The Research Director (RD) for NAWI is the research leader of the organization, with responsibility for developing and leading substantive …

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Earth System Sciences Department is seeking an Earth System Sciences postdoctoral fellow to support two DOE-funded projects, HyperFORMANCE and CASCADE.

HyperFORMANCE aims to improve the accessibility and usability of hydrometeorological information for resource managers and flood planners, while CASCADE investigates the nature and predictability of hydrometeorological extremes affecting water-energy systems.

This two-year position, with potential extension, …

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division is seeking an innovative Postdoctoral Researcher to investigate the controls of soil carbon and nutrient cycling, and how these cycles are affected by soil temperature and soil depth.

You will contribute to a cutting-edge grassland soil-warming experiment in Point Reyes, California, and advance the mechanistic understanding of soil biogeochemistry and its role in plant-soil feedbacks. They will use field and laboratory …

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hiring two Student Assistants in the Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division to support the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area and CHESS campaign in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

Responsibilities include analyzing soil cores for geochemical and physical properties, extracting microbial DNA/RNA, sectioning and organizing samples, and maintaining accurate laboratory records and datasets. Students will also assist with data quality control, basic statistical …

The Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab seeks a Pantropical Vegetation Dynamics Postdoctoral Fellow to combine observational synthesis, ecological theory, and numerical models to explore the dynamics of tropical forests responding and feeding back to climate. The position is part of the NGEE-Tropics project ( https://ngee-tropics.lbl.gov), a long-term, DOE-funded effort to bring together observational and theoretical approaches to build, inform, and test the representation of …

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is hiring a Computational Geological Project Scientist within the Energy Geosciences division. The Project Scientist position is established to conduct thermal, hydrological, and mechanical modeling in support of the disposal of high-level radioactive waste. The position will support the LBNL Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Waste Program through the interpretation and modeling of laboratory and field tests of bentonite barriers for geological repositories and numerical …

The Earth and Environmental Science Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory welcomes applicants for a Postdoctoral Scholar in Integrated Hydrologic Modeling.

About the position:
You will conduct research as part of an interdisciplinary team of scientists from LBNL’s Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area project. You will develop and utilize three-dimensional watershed models of a headwater system in the Upper Colorado River basin to study the effects of disturbance, land cover change, …

Berkeley Lab’s Energy Geosciences Division seeks a Project Scientist – Automation Engineer to lead automation development for REACT, an AI-driven materials chemistry laboratory that includes the ARC and HIPASS platforms. You will design and integrate scientific instruments, robotic workflows, embedded controls, and software that enable autonomous experimentation in mineral processing, materials synthesis, and chemical research.

METALLIC is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional program advancing …