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.
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.
ESD’s Harry Beller and other LBNL scientists investigate the generation of methyl ketones, a class of compounds that can be synthesized from plant-derived sugars by engineered microbes, for potential application to biofuel production.
Nara Damdinsuren, a PhD. candidate in her native Mongolia, has recently been working with ESD’s Tamas Torok on using genetic screens to catalog microbes from the Khaara River, which flows through the mountainous nation of Mongolia.
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
In a recently published article in Nature, Janet Jansson and her team of researchers from ESD—as well as from DOE, JGI, and the U.S. Geological Survey—studied how microbes found in permafrost respond to their warming environment.
