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.
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.
At this year’s AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, ESD will man a booth, have scientists available to talk about their work, and have an HR representative on hand to meet with people pursuing work in Earth sciences.
This past Monday, Nov. 14, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Wuhan University of China agreed (in a memorandum of understanding—MOU) to collectively explore their mutual interests in scientific education and research
ESD Director Donald J. DePaolo talks about the link between climate change and the “carbon cycle change”: the fact that Earth’s carbon cycles have undergone revolutionary change, entirely due to human burning of fossil fuels and removal of forests
Earthquakes can be caused by human engineering practices—see Induced Seismicity: Manmade Earthquakes, featuring ESD’s own Ernie Majer, to be aired on “Quest” tomorrow (Wednesday, September 21) at 7:30 on KQED Channel 9
Ernie Majer and his team are exploring ways to increase the productivity and effectiveness of energy source recovery and geologic sequestration sites, while simultaneously informing and ensuring the safety of the neighboring public.
Michael Commer, Gregory Newman of ESD and Filipe R.N.C. Maia of NERSC Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) are designed for efficiently manipulating computer graphics. Their highly parallel architecture makes them also suitable for computing-intensive scientific applications. In a project conducted over the past year and sponsored by Chevron, ESD’s Michael...
Source: Dan Goldstein, energyNOW! Dan interviews ESD's Energy Resources Program Head & Geophysics Department scientist Ernie Majer about the connection between EGS and earthquakes. The report seeks to explain the new drilling techniques and approaches to enhanced geothermal systems. View the full video here » Also Reported in TABL »
