Entries categorized as ‘In The Press’
Source: TABL
The Earth Sciences Division’s Terry Hazen (right) has been appointed the Chair of the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC). The IBC provides institutional assurance of safety by reviewing Berkeley Lab policies and projects involving research with biological materials that may pose safety, health, or environmental risks. Hazen brings to the IBC extensive experience in microbiology and biotechnology, and a strong desire to promote research within a safe work environment. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiologists, the American Society for Microbiologists, and the Society for Industrial Microbiology. He replaces the Life Sciences Division’s Tamas Torok (left), who held the IBC chair for 10 years. Read TABL announcement »
Categories: In The Press
Tagged: Ecology Department, Terry Hazen
Source: TABL
Benjamin Gilbert of Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division was chosen by the Mineralogical Society of America as 2010’s Young Investigator Award winner. The award is considered the highest honor for a young scientist working in mineralogy or related fields. Gilbert, 36, has made important contributions to the rapidly evolving field of nanogeoscience — the study of the properties and geochemical interactions of natural nanoscale minerals. Much of his research involves the development and application of synchrotron x-ray experiments and analysis methods for the study of mineral nanoparticles. Read more »
Categories: In The Press
Tagged: Benjamin Gilbert
Source: Berkeley Lab News Center
By: Dan Krotz
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and China’s Peking University agreed on Nov. 12 to jointly pursue the development of safe and effective carbon capture and storage techniques. Read more »
Categories: In The Press
Tagged: Donald DePaolo, EFRC, Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program
Source: Berkeley Lab News Center
By: Julie Chao
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been awarded $7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for four projects that seek to advance Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS), which is capable of harnessing the Earth’s heat where conventional geothermal technologies cannot. The funding is part of a $400 million investment that the Department of Energy has made in geothermal energy thanks to the Recovery Act. Read more »
Categories: In The Press
Tagged: Energy Resources Department, Geothermal Energy, Mack Kennedy
Source: Berkeley Lab – Year of Science – October 2009
By; Lynn Yaris
To develop and apply the tools of isotope geochemistry to the study of Earth’s geological history, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley, and the National Science Foundation, established in 1999 the Center for Isotope Geochemistry. Under the direction of Donald DePaolo, a geologist who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab as director of its Earth Sciences Division, and UC Berkeley, where he is a geochemistry professor in the Earth and Planetary Science Department, researchers at the Center for Isotope Geochemistry have studied everything from tectonic plate drift, to comings and goings of Ice Ages, to volcanic activity. They’ve even applied isotope geochemistry to the study of meteorites that predate the earth. Read more »
Categories: In The Press
Tagged: Center for Isotope Geochemistry, Donald DePaolo
Source: TABL
Susan Hubbard, a staff scientist in the Earth Sciences Division and leader of its Environmental Remediation and Water Resources Program, has been honored with the Frank Frischknecht Award for 2009. This award recognizes “extraordinary leadership and innovation that has transformed the nature and capabilities of near surface geophysics.” The honor was presented jointly by the Near Surface Geophysical Society of Exploration Geophysicists and by the Environmental and Engineering Society. Hubbard’s research focuses on the use of geophysical methods for shallow subsurface characterization and monitoring, with a particular emphasis on integration of geophysical, hydrological, and biogeochemical datasets to understand complex subsurface processes.
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Categories: In The Press
Tagged: Environmental Remediation and Water Resources Program, Susan Hubbard, Sustainable Systems SFA
Source: Berkeley Lab 2009 Year of Science
By: Lynn Yaris
When it comes to biodiversity, microorganisms, or microbes, as they’re more commonly known, rule. So-named for their microscopic size and consisting of bacteria, fungi, archaea and certain plants and animals, such as algae and plankton, microbes are ubiquitous to the biosphere, their presence effusive in every known ecosystem. This is no surprise considering microbes were not only the first forms of life on earth but, for most of our planet’s history, they were the only live show in town. Microbes laid the foundation for the evolution of all other life on earth and they continue to be our planet’s most important residents. From making possible the carbon cycle that feeds plants and produces oxygen, to fixing atmospheric nitrogen into a form the rest of us can use, to decomposing the dead, microbes perform the chemistry that is essential to existence. Without microbes doing what they do, earth’s ecosystems would collapse and its biosphere would die. read more »
Categories: In The Press
Tagged: Ecology Department, Terry Hazen, Kristen DeAngelis, Phylochip
Source: Discovery Channel News Blog
By: Alyssa Danigelis
Cleaning radioactive metal contamination is a challenging business–expensive, tedious, and sometimes nearly impossible…. Mizzou’s Judy Wall is studying a widespread sulfate-reducing–and stinky–bacterium called Desulfovibrio vulgaris found in soil that metabolizes radioactive and heavy metals…. Wall’s colleague at LBNL Terry Hazen is also conducting experiments with contaminated soil. According to the EPA there are more than 1,000 sites around the United States contaminated with radioactive waste. When it comes to daunting cleanups, the answer might already be in the ground. read more »
Categories: In The Press
Tagged: Ecology Department, Terry Hazen
Source: Green Museum Blog
The signature on an email from Terry Hazen is a paragraph long. It has to be- it lists a multitude of titles. He’s the Head of the Ecology Department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The Head of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology. The Lead of Microbial Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery at the Energy Biosciences Institute. The list goes on. Hazen is, therefore, the perfect man to talk to about our current attempts to correct massive ecological f-ups, and what that means for artists. read more »
Categories: In The Press
Tagged: Ecology Department, Terry Hazen
