A Wealth of Earth Day-Week Activities

LBNL Deputy Director Horst Simon, in a message to the Lab, announces a wealth of Lab activities related to Earth Day and Earth Week, and invites all Lab employees to learn how they can make a positive impact.

Electric Conductivity Logging for a Deep Artesian Well

The flowing fluid electric conductivity (FFEC) logging method is a well-logging technique used to estimate flow rate, salinity, transmissivity, and the hydraulic head of individual fractures or high-permeability zones intersected by a wellbore.

Thermodynamic Sorption Modeling for Radioactive Waste Disposal

Predicting the behavior of contaminants that may be released in surface and subsurface environments is a major challenge to environmental scientists worldwide.

San Onofre: A Year Off the Grid

ESD’s Bob Budnitz discusses the safety problems behind the recent outage of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station near San Diego, suggesting that the implications of a prolonged outage are mostly economic.

ESD at AGU: A Zone of Constant Activity

The AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco last month (December 2012) was a great success, especially for LBNL’s Earth Sciences Division and our homebase at the site, the ESD booth—a zone of constant activity.

Meet ESD Scientists in Booth #406 at AGU 2012

ESD’s Meet the Scientist program at AGU 2012 will reveal the exceptional minds and diverse expertise of our earth scientists this year.

ESD Early Career Development Grants

The ESD Early Career Development Grants (ECDG) is an opportunity for early career scientific staff to develop new concepts, tools and approaches with the potential to complement and/or enhance existing ESD research programs as well as develop new research directions in ESD.

DOE SBIR/STTR Phase I Release 2 Topics Notice

Topics for our FY13 SBIR/STTR Phase I Release 2 Funding Opportunity Announcement have been issued and are available.

Multiphysics Processes in Partially Saturated Fractured Rock: Experiments and Models from Yucca Mountain

ESD’s Jonny Rutqvist and Chin-Fu Tsang provide an overview of how the conceptual understanding of the multiphysics related to coupled THM processes at Yucca Mountain was developed, and how this understanding was incorporated into the development of numerical models and analyses.

TOUGH Symposium This Week!

This week in LBNL’s Building 50 auditorium, ESD hosts a symposium on the applications of the TOUGH numerical simulator—a suite of computer programs for simulating multiphase fluid and heat flow in porous and fractured rock.