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05/23/2012

ESD Geophysicists Win Best Paper Award

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.

05/22/2012

ESD Scientists Garner LBNL Awards

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.

05/02/2012

DSSS: Mapping Ecosystem Carbon, Biodiversity, and Disturbance Regimes: New Insights from the Carnegie Airborne Observatory

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.

04/26/2012

Paul Witherspoon Memorial May 3, 2012

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.

04/18/2012

ESD’s Nakagawa Receives BES Award

ESD’s Seiji Nakagawa and his collaborators recently received an award for the best research presentation, at the Annual Symposium for the Geosciences Research Program, within the DOE’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

Progress on Carbon Capture

This Thursday afternoon (3 p.m.), Dr. Elizabeth Burton, WESTCARB Technical Director, will discuss the latest news regarding carbon capture, utilization, and storage, as part of the Earth Science and Industry Seminar series.

04/03/2012

DSSS: Archaeal Ammonia Oxidisers in Soil: So What?

ESD welcomes Dr. James I. Prosser (University of Aberdeen, UK), presenting "Archaeal Ammonia Oxidisers in Soil: So What?" April. 13 at 10:30am in the Bldg. 50 Auditorium.

03/26/2012

A Systems Approach to Bioremediation

Noting that bioremediation has historically been approached as a “black box,” Romy Chakraborty and her team prescribe research tools and describe projects that would constitute a systems biology approach for bioremediation.

02/21/2012

DSSS: Islands as Model Systems for Understanding Soils, Ecosystems, and Human-Environment Interactions

ESD welcomes Dr. Peter Vitousek (Stanford Univ.), presenting "Islands as Model Systems for Understanding Soils" Feb. 17 at 10:30am in the Bldg. 50 Auditorium.

ESD's Innovation Grant Awards

ESD scientists, George Pau, Stefan Finsterle, Eric Sonnenthal, Michael Commer Greg Newman and Petr Petrov, along with other Lab scientists win first Innovation Grant Awards.