A Q&A with Kripa Jagannathan
After interacting with coastal farming communities who experienced sea level rise and other direct impacts of climate change, Research Scientist Kripa Jagannathan recognized that environmental problems...
View ArticleSecond International DECOVALEX Symposium Abstract Submission is Open
The Second International DECOVALEX Symposium on Coupled Processes in Radioactive Waste Disposal and Subsurface Engineering Applications is taking place in Troyes, France on November 14-16, 2023. The...
View ArticleHydroML 2.0 Symposium: Inspiring Connections and Collective Learning at...
Earth systems science experts gathering for the HydroML 2.0 Symposium held at Berkeley Lab. The HydroML 2.0 Symposium, held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley from May 22 to 24,...
View ArticleEESA Scientists Close Rhizosphere Microbiome Knowledge Gaps
The EcoFAB 2.0 is a standardized device for reproducible aseptic plant growth, sampling of the growth medium, and determination of plant-microbe interactions. It can accommodate small model plants such...
View ArticleQuantifying the strength of the land carbon sink
This article first appeared at nature.berkeley.edu/news. The world’s forests, grasslands, and other terrestrial ecosystems have played a substantial role in offsetting human carbon emissions—a...
View ArticleDOE Funds Projects to Advance Forest Carbon Dioxide Removal Efforts and...
The DOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) and Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) recently announced $5 million in funding for four projects–two from Berkeley Lab with EESA...
View ArticleCarl Steefel Honored in Goldschmidt Session on Reactive Transport
The contributions of Carl Steefel to the reactive transport modeling scientific community were recognized in a session held in his honor at the recent Goldschmidt 2023 conference (Lyon, France)....
View ArticleStudy Sheds Light on Microbial Communities in Earth’s Subsurface
From the tops of tree canopies to the bottom of groundwater reservoirs, a vast amount of living organisms interact with nonliving components such as rock, water, and soil to shape this area of Earth...
View Article2023 ESS-DIVE Open Data Workshop (ODW) to Propel Environmental System Science...
The Environmental Systems Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) team will host a free, virtual Open Data Workshop from Wednesday, November 15 to Thursday, November 16, 2023,...
View ArticleJoint Berkeley Initiative for Microbiome Sciences Hosts Microbes in a...
Director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Asmeret Asefaw Berhe delivering her keynote speech at the JBIMS symposium. The Joint Berkeley Initiative for Microbiome Sciences...
View ArticleFormer Intern Emily Nagamoto Wins AGU Award
She was mentored by Staff Scientist Charuleka Varadharajan and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Mohammed Ombadi during her Summer 2022 SULI term. Currently an undergraduate student in Duke University’s...
View ArticleNew Look at Climate Data Shows Substantially Wetter Rain and Snow Days Ahead
Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) report that extremely intense days of rain or snow...
View ArticleSecond International DECOVALEX Symposium Abstract Submission is Open
The DECOVALEX Symposium is co-hosted by ANDRA, Berkeley Lab, and the DECOVALEX Initiative. The event will feature keynote speakers and researchers that study thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC)...
View ArticleA Q&A with Kripa Jagannathan
This led Kripa Jagannathan to EESA working as a social scientist, helping to facilitate the co-production of knowledge–a type of research method that brings together researchers and the community to...
View ArticleHydroML 2.0 Symposium: Inspiring Connections and Collective Learning at...
The symposium agenda included plenary sessions, panel discussions, breakout sessions and tutorials over three days. These sessions provided a comprehensive platform for engaging discussions,...
View ArticleEESA Scientists Close Rhizosphere Microbiome Knowledge Gaps
Plants secrete organic compounds such as amino acids or enzymes known as root exudates, which are key in recruiting and selecting relevant beneficial microbes to colonize in the rhizosphere. Studying...
View ArticleQuantifying the strength of the land carbon sink
This article first appeared at nature.berkeley.edu/news. The assessment, published today as a new review paper in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, presents a comprehensive analysis of hundreds...
View ArticleDOE Funds Projects to Advance Forest Carbon Dioxide Removal Efforts and...
The projects selected offer “promising solutions” to the nation’s climate change challenges by helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and will “accelerate their deployment into the private sector...
View ArticleCarl Steefel Honored in Goldschmidt Session on Reactive Transport
The session was one of the largest in the conference comprising 34 oral presentations, split into three 3-hour blocks, and 16 poster presentations. Presenters and attendees included a broad...
View ArticleStudy Sheds Light on Microbial Communities in Earth’s Subsurface
Over half of Earth’s microbes are located in the subsurface critical zone, which ranges from the surface of the ground to bedrock. These microbes form communities that govern important ecological...
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