A team of scientists including ESD’s Valeri Korneev and Paul Cook recently installed a novel magneto-acoustic seismic sensor (MAS) at the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) pilot hole at Parkfield, CA—enabling detection of low-magnitude seismic events.
ESD’s Patricia Fox and Jim Davis recently investigated uranium at Old Rifle, CO, generating a “surface complexation” model and conducting field experiments in which uranium(VI) was desorbed via bicarbonate injected into an aquifer.
A team of ESD geophysicists led by Jonathan Ajo-Franklin recently won an award for the Best Paper Presented at the 2011 SEG Annual Meeting. This award will be presented at the SEG 2012 Annual Meeting at Las Vegas coming up this November.
Gary Andersen and the ESD TOUGH Software group were winners of the LBNL Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement—Andersen for the PhyloChip array and the TOUGH team for supporting diverse applications and licensing of the TOUGH code.
ESD’s Sharon Borglin and others are studying how microarray technology—involving the growth of microorganisms in commercially available multiwell plates—enables screening for phenotypic characteristics of a test culture.
LBNL Safety Spot Award Program
ESD welcomes Dr. Greg Asner (Carnegie Institute, Stanford, CA), presenting "Mapping Ecosystem Carbon, Biodiversity, and Disturbance Regimes" May 11 at 10:30am in the Bldg. 50 Auditorium.
As part of LBNL’s ARPA-electrofuel project, ESD’s Steve Singer and Harry Beller are leading a team of scientists in investigating whether certain soil bacteria can be converted to produce biofuels more efficiently—avoiding photosynthesis.
A team of LBNL scientists sheds light on individual cell processes by describing how they train infrared radiation from a synchrotron light source on single cells—to find out how they grow, differentiate, and respond to external stimuli.
The Witherspoon Memorial Committee will be hosting a memorial service for Paul Witherspoon next week, May 3rd, 2012, 2-5PM at the Brazilian Room at Tilden Regional Park in Berkeley.
