On Feb. 13, 2009, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 at the urging of President Obama, who signed it into law four days later. A direct response to the economic crisis, the Recovery Act has three immediate goals:
- Create new jobs and save existing ones
- Spur economic activity and invest in long-term growth
- Foster unprecedented levels of accountability and transparency in government spending
Projects: American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
The Earth Sciences Division (ESD) at Berkeley Lab has received several awards from the Office of Science, the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and other agencies through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), enacted by the 111th United States Congress in February 2009. The list below shows ARRA funded projects that has been received to date in the Earth Sciences Division and the Program areas the ARRA projects align with.
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List of ARRA Funded Projects
More information about individual projects (that may not necessarily be online) can also be found by reading our Research Summaries and Publications.
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Project Title |
Funding Agency | ESD Program | Projected Funding |
PI |
Contact Information |
E-mail Address |
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Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) with CO2 as Heat Transmission Fluid |
DOE-Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy |
Geothermal Program |
$1,299,000 |
Karsten Pruess |
(510) 486-6732 | K_Pruess@lbl.gov |
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Coupled THMC Model and Experiments for Optimization of Enhanced Geothermal System Development and Production |
DOE-Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy |
Geothermal Program |
$1,879,000 |
Eric Sonnenthal |
(510) 486-5866 | ELSonnenthal@lbl.gov |
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Fluid Imaging of Enhanced Geothermal Systems through Joint 3D Geophysical Inverse Modeling |
DOE-Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy |
Geothermal Program |
$2,272,000 |
Gregory Newman |
(510) 486-5887 | GANewman@lbl.gov |
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Integrated Approach To Use Natural Chemical and Isotopic Tracers to Estimate Fracture Spacing and Surface Area in EGS Systems |
DOE-Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy |
Geothermal Program |
$1,768,000 |
Mack Kennedy |
(510) 486-6451 |
BMKennedy@lbl.gov |
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Northern California CO2 Reduction |
DOE-Office of Fossil Energy |
Geologic Carbon Sequestration |
$200,000 |
John H. Beyer |
(510) 486-7954 | JHBeyer@lbl.gov |