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• Gas Reservoirs as GCS Sites
  

  Gas Reservoirs as GCS Sites

  ESD scientists Barry Freifeld and Tom Daley are part of a project that has helped to verify that depleted gas reservoirs can be used for GCS and have enough storage capacity to significantly reduce global emissions.

• Engineering Bacteria for New Biofuels
  

  Engineering Bacteria for New Biofuels

  ESD’s Harry Beller and other LBNL scientists investigate methyl ketones, a class of compounds that can be synthesized from plant-derived sugars by engineered microbes, for potential application to biofuel production.

• Investigating Far-Away Microbes
  

  Investigating Far-Away Microbes

  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 of Mongolia.

• DSSS: Agnes Kane video replay
  

  DSSS: Agnes Kane video replay

  The video replay of Dr. Agnes Kane's (Brown University) December 9th presentation, "The Asbestos/Carbon Nanotube Analogy: Will there be an epidemic of nanodiseases in 2030?", is now posted online.

• Climate Change to Wind to Wildfires
  

  Climate Change to Wind to Wildfires

  ESD’s Norm Miller and other scientists have recently conducted research on how climate change could increase the danger of wind-driven wildfires—and extend the season of greatest risk for such fires.

• ESD at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting
  

  ESD at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting

  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.

• Torn Finds Emissions Goals Achievable
  

  Torn Finds Emissions Goals Achievable

  In a recently published article in Science, ESD’s Margaret Torn and others find that California’s 2050 carbon-emission-reduction goals are achievable using available technologies.

• Np-237: Radioactive Contamination
  

  Np-237: Radioactive Contamination

  ESD’s Ruth Tinnacher and others recently evaluated the relevance of neptunium's various sorption characteristics, as a step toward predicting the mobility of radioactive contaminants in soils and groundwater systems.

• LBNL and Wuhan U. Collaborate
  

  LBNL and Wuhan U. Collaborate

  Monday, Nov. 14, LBNL and Wuhan University of China agreed (in a memorandum of understanding—MOU) to collectively explore their mutual interests in scientific education and research.

• CC2.0 Special Event: Don DePaolo Talk
  

  CC2.0 DePaolo Talk this Thursday

  On Nov. 10, 2–3 p.m., Building 50 Auditorium, ESD Director Donald J. DePaolo talks about the link between climate change and the “carbon cycle change.”