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24 posts categorized "Hydrogeology Department"

05/30/2012

Listening to Seismicity

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.

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.

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.

02/21/2012

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.

02/06/2012

Need a Science Speaker? For Free?

Scientists at the Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 love talking about their cutting-edge research. They do this, for free, as part of the NCGC Distinguished Lecturer Series, directed toward academia, societies, and industry.

01/05/2012

Gas Reservoirs as GCS Sites

A demonstration project on the southeastern tip of Australia has helped to verify that depleted natural gas reservoirs can be repurposed for geologic carbon sequestration and have enough CO2 storage capacity to make a significant contribution to reducing global emissions.

12/01/2011

ESD at the AGU Fall Meeting, Mon–Fri, Dec. 5–9, 2011

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.

11/17/2011

LBNL and Wuhan University Collaborate

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

11/09/2011

CC2.0 Special Event: Don DePaolo Talk

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