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This month's events

• ESD/UC Student Wins Fellowship
  

  ESD/UC Student Wins Fellowship

  Stacy Jackson is one of 3 UC students awarded the 2010 Switzer Fellowship, given to outstanding environmental scholars pursuing a graduate degree in ecological disciplines. Stacy works in our Climate Sciences Department.

• UC Lends Expertise in Gulf Oil Crisis
  

  UC Lends Expertise in Gulf Oil Crisis

  Government agencies tapped UC researchers to serve on investigative panels that are uncovering knowledge that could improve spill response. ESD's Curt Oldenburg is a member of the government's Flow Rate Technical Group.

• Getting Down With CO2
  

  Getting Down With CO2

  ESD scientists discuss the DUSEL CO₂ project at the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, which will host research in physics and a wide range of other fields.

• Inez Fung Joins Academia Sinica
  

  Inez Fung Joins Academia Sinica

  ESD’s Inez Fung has has been elected as an academician to Taiwan’s Academia Sinica. Academia Sinica was founded in 1928 to promote and undertake scholarly research in sciences and humanities.

• Induced Seismicity
  

  Induced Seismicity

  Induced seismicity associated with energy production and waste disposal has become an increasingly important issue as energy production in a climate constrained earth progresses.

• Wireline Truck Returns to Service
  

  Wireline Truck Returns to Service

  After spending months in the shop, the newly refurbished high temperature wireline truck arrived last Thursday, only to be deployed this coming Friday.

• Jonathan Trent Lecture
  

  Dr. Trent Lecture on OMEGA for Biofuels

  Dr. Trent presents "OMEGA for biofuels, wastewater treatment, and carbon sequestration" Thursday, July 22, 2010 in Building 66 Auditorium at 2:00 pm.

• How Microbes Defend and Define Us
  

  How Microbes Defend and Define Us

  Janet Jansson co-authored a research paper with Dr. Alexander Khoruts who recently used bacteriotherapy to cure a patient suffering from a vicious gut infection of Clostridium difficile.

• Indonesia's Mud Volcano Flows On
  

  Indonesia's Mud Volcano Flows On

  Evidence from a team of independent U.S. and British geologists — including ESD's Michael Manga — suggests that the mud volcano... was man-made, the result of a 2006 drilling accident at a nearby gas exploration site.

• Preston Jordon Studies the Ground
  

  ESD's Preston Jordan helps with lab safety

  Along with other geologists and engineers, Preston Jordan is ensuring that the Lab site continues to become safer and safer over time.