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ESD Leads Microbiome- to Watershed-Scale Study 23 Aug 2013 | 01:07 am
Source: Susan Hubbard The Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research has green-lighted a Berkeley Lab-led project that will develop a predictive understanding of how the g...
A Conservationist Approach to Creating Biofuels 16 Aug 2013 | 02:09 am
Source: LBNL TABL and Dan Hawkes ESD’s Steve Singer is part of a group of JBEI scientists who recently demonstrated a one-pot, wash-free, process for the ionic liquid pretreatment and saccharificatio...
Organic Matter Can Change Uranium Sorption Kinetics 8 Aug 2013 | 12:14 am
Source: Ruth Tinnacher and Dan Hawkes Ruth Tinnacher performing batch experiments in an anaerobic chamber. In the U.S., numerous sites have been contaminated with uranium as a result of uranium mini...
Lindsey Sharing Geothermal Expertise in Kenya 5 Aug 2013 | 10:46 pm
Source: Dan Hawkes GDC trainees and EAGP instructors toured several sites within Menengai caldera, where GDC is currently drilling to extract heat from this volcanic resource. In May 2013, ESD’s Nat...
A Look Inside the Earth 1 Aug 2013 | 02:50 am
Source: Dan Hawkes On the computational resources and techniques required for imaging the Earth's crust. Imaging subsurface geologies is critical in a variety of tasks: locating new sources of en...
Investigating Saprolites at the Oak Ridge IFRC Site 1 Aug 2013 | 02:33 am
Source: Dan Hawkes Over the last three decades, contaminants at the Oak Ridge Integrated Field Research Challenge (IFRC) site have infiltrated a shallow saprolitic (chemically weathered) pond, result...
Using SWIW Tests to Understand Fracture Effects 1 Aug 2013 | 02:25 am
Source: Dan Hawkes Modeling of flow and transport in fractured rock remains a challenging problem in hydrogeology, one that particularly arises in the context of finding and developing appropriate si...
Video Replay: Watershed Panel Talk 31 Jul 2013 | 04:11 am
Source: Dan Hawkes On July 23, 2013, LBNL’s Materials Sciences Division hosted a screening of the documentary Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West. The film, produced and narrated...
Which Microbes Make the Best Biofuels? 29 Jul 2013 | 09:53 pm
Source: LBNL TABL ESD’s Steve Singer has been a leader in the recent development of a promising technique to identify microbial enzymes that can effectively deconstruct biomass into fuel sugars. Com...
Beller Pursues Biofuels from CO2 26 Jul 2013 | 01:53 am
Source: LBNL TABL A team of researchers at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) led by Harry Beller (and including Steve Singer) of the LBNL Earth Sciences Division has engineered a common soil bact...
