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ESD Organizational Changes

As many of you know, over the past year, the Earth Sciences Division (ESD) has made various changes to its organization by adding a new program as well as a new department. Furthermore, a few of ESD's Programs have also changed in name only to more accurately reflect their function.

ESD has established the Climate Science Department, led by Bill Collins, as well as the Geologic Carbon Sequestration Program, led by Larry Myer and Curt Oldenburg.

With respect to the Program names that have changed, the Climate Change and Carbon Management Program is now called, Climate and Carbon Sciences. The Environmental Remediation Program is now called, Environmental Remediation and Water Resources.

Here is a summary of our organization and their respective Department or Program Head:

Departments

The ESD Departments are aligned with the various scientific disciplines and consist of personnel whose core capabilities or expertise are mapped to an array of research areas in support of the ESD Programs. It is the role of the Department to provide the personnel resources needed to conduct the work as needed by a specific project within a given Program. Due to the crosscutting nature of the staff's expertise, where personnel may support multiple Programs, this alignment by Department enables the Division to address various operations functions, such as Safety Line Management.

Programs

It is the role of the Program to develop a long-term scientific agenda and purpose and ensuring its alignment with LBNL and ESD's mission and purpose. The Programs work with the Departments to match the disciplinary capabilities to the needs of the appropriate funding agency and to address the many research challenges we face today.

View the Earth Sciences Division organization chart from here.