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- Carl Steefel will teach a three-day short course on reactive transport modeling at the 2013 August 20-30 Goldschmidt Conference in Florance, Italy http://goldschmidt.info.2013/workshops
- Carl Steefel was recognized for his contribution in the field of reactive transport modeling in the 2012 issue of Geochemical Perspectives. Steffel was cited as one of the six "Hall of Fame" contributors to the field (i.e. "perceived from a petrologist's perspective.....as the most influential in driving geochemical transport modeling forward during the last 50 years".
- Nicholas Spycher's presentation on Plume Scale Modeling was recognized as one of the daily highlights "Modeling Useful When Data Incorporated" http://goldschmidt2012.conferencesymposium.com.june29.html in 2012 Goldschmidt in Montreal, Canada associated with abstract http://events.jpdl.com/pdf/el20624aAbstract02423.pdf
- Kenneth Hurst Williams interviewed with the Daily Sentinel in Junction, Colorado on the uranium cleanup work in Rifle was published on July 25, 2012 http//www.gjsentinel.com/news/article/rifle-researchers-test-micbrobes-appetite-for-urani/
- Kenneth Hurst Williams gave a lecture on the history of uranium and vanadium in the Rifle area on July 12, 2012 in the Rifle Branch Library. He also talked about the research activities exploring the role of natural natural macroorganisms in remediating residual contamination of sediments and groundwater.
- Michael Kowalsky, Nic Spycher, and Eric Sonnenthal were involved in developing and conducting TOUGH2 and iTOUGH2 training courses. TOUGH2 and iTOUGH2 have been used for variety of pruposes in the SFA, such as for inverse modeling of hydrological and geophysical data at the Rifle and Oak Ridge IFRC sites, as well as for assessing remediation techniques at the Hanford and Savannah River DOE sites.
- Susan Hubbard was BERAC subcommittee on Dr. Brinkman-requested Innovation Charge, ongoing Lead, SBR PI Meeting Breakout Session, April 2012.
- Jenny Druhan, PhD Student, Fall AGU 2010 Outstanding Student Presentation Award for Evolution Challenge Sulfur Isotope research.
- Terry Hazen, 2011 "OUtstanding Lecture" award from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
- Susan Hubbard served as the 2010 Geological Society of America's (GSA) Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer. The lectureship is made to one person annually by the GSA Hydrogeology Division based on two criteria: the nominee must be a renowned scientist whose publication record and research have had national and internationational impact in the field of hydrogeology, and the nominee must be an outstanding speaker. Hubbard is the 32nd GSA Birdsall-Dreiss Lecturer, and the first from a national laboratory.
- Susan Hubbard was honored as a 2011 Geological Society of America Fellow for distinguished contributions to hydrogeology.
- SFA collaborator William Moses (LBNL Radioimaging SFA lead) received the 2011 "Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award" from the Nuclear and Plasma Science Society (NPSS). The award recognizes outstanding contributions through leadership and service to the NPSS and to the fields of Nuclear and Plasma Sciences. Moses's research focus on the development of instrumentation for Radiation Detection and Imaging, primarily for Nuclear Medical Imaging.
- Jenny Druhan has received the 2011 Outstanding Student Paper Award for the paper, Observing the coupled behavior of geochemistry and flow path evolution during bioreduction using clinical nuclear imaging tomography, co-authored with Vandehey, N., Buchko, R., O'Neil, J., Moses, W., Finsterle, S., Steefel, C., and Nico, P., presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, 5-9 December 2011.
- Terry Hazen recognized by Citizens for a Sustainable Point Molate, for consulting on the development plan for Pt. Molate in Richmond, CA. The plan benefited greatly from Terry's help.
- Ben Gilbert, recipient of an SFA exploratory award, was chosen by the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) Structure, Properties, and Geochemistry of Nanoparticles, Nanoclusters, and Nanocomposites in Biogeochemical Systems II for 2010's Young Investigator Award.
- Hoi-Ying Holman won the 2010 David A. Shirley Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement at the ALS, for her work in “pioneering the study of living cells and their response to environmental stimuli using synchrotron-based FTIR [Fourier Transform infrared] spectromocroscopy.”
- Susan Hubbard was honored as the 2010 GSA Birdsall Driess Distinguished Lecturer.
- Susan Hubbard became the Earth Sciences Division Deputy Director for Programs, which focuses on fostering promising research and programmatic directions in the division in 2010.
- Susan Hubbard was awarded the 2010 Franklin Frischknecht Leadership award by the near-surface and environmental geophysical community. Susan Hubbard was awarded the 2009 'Excellence in Editing' honor from the Journal of Hydrology.
- Michael Commer and Greg Newman - 2009 R&D 100 Award for the ElectroMagnetic Geological Mapper, which was used to invert surface Spectral Induced Polarization colleted at the Rifle IFRC.
- Don DePaolo was honored as a 2009 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
- Jenny Druhan, PhD Student, won an “Outstanding Student Paper Award” for her presentation at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (in San Francisco) in December, 2007. Druhan. J., M.E. Conrad, K.H. Williams, L. N’Guessan, P.E. Long, and S.S. Hubbard, 2007, Sulfur isotopes as indicators of bacterial sulfate reduction processes influencing field scale uranium bioremediation: EOS Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract H13G-1668.
- Gary Andersen, Todd DeSantis, Eoin Brodie, and Yvette Piceno - Phylochip R&D awards 2008. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Phylochip is the overall Bronze winner and also the winner in the Environmental Category in this year’s Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards and the winner of an R&D 100 Award. The Phylochip was the only technology in the Wall Street Journal Competition that was developed at a National Laboratory.