| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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| Earth Sciences Division |
Environmental Energy Technologies Division |
| Environment Health and Saftey Division |
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| Earth Sciences Division |
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| Resource Departments: |
| Ecology |
| The Ecology Department (ED) intends to maintain the highest quality and highest visibility for its research and development in four areas:
1) Hydroecological engineering advanced decision support
2) Molecular microbial ecology
3) Real-Time Assessment of Bioavailability and Biokinetics and
4) Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation |
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| Geochemistry |
| ESD’s Geochemistry Department has expertise in isotopic geochemistry, reactive transport modeling, experimental mineral-water kinetics, molecular geochemistry and nanogeoscience, soil geochemistry, marine geochemistry, global and regional climate modeling, and mineralogy. The department has four major thrust areas:
1) Molecular Geochemistry and Nanogeoscience
2) Isotope Geochemistry
3) Climate Change: Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Terrestrial Biogeochemistry and
4) Geochemical Transport |
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| Geophysics |
| The primary focus of the Geophysics Department is to advance the development of new methodologies for extracting subsurface properties, including fluid properties, saturation, porosity, pore pressure, permeability, and in situ stress.The department is organized into five scientific research areas:
1) Computational Geophysics
2) Rock Physics and Coupled Dynamics
3) Hydrogeophysics
4) Characterization and Monitoring Geophysics
5) Computational Geomechanics |
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| Hydrogeology |
| The Hydrogeology Department (HD) consists of more than 50 scientists, postdocs, research associates, and graduate students carrying out a broad range of cutting-edge research in fundamental and applied hydrology. HD has expertise in theoretical, experimental, field, and modeling approaches in a variety of research areas. The HD addresses national needs in the areas of subsurface energy resource recovery, subsurface remediation, geologic CO2 storage, and nuclear waste. disposal. |
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| Research Programs: |
| Climate Change and Carbon Management |
| The Climate Change and Carbon Management program (CC&CM) conducts research to increase the scientific foundation for climate change prediction, impact assessment, and mitigation. In addition, program research on biogeochemical cycles and climate also addresses other pressing issues under the purview of DOE and other public agencies, such as stewardship of water resources and the environmental effects of energy use and land use. |
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| Energy Resources |
| Mission: To develop, through focused and applied fundamental research, earth technologies for production of energy in an environmentally responsible manner and to deploy these technologies through partnership of industry, government and academia. |
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| Environmental Remediation |
| The Environmental Remediation Program (ERP) conducts research focused on characterization, monitoring, and modeling of subsurface environments, with a particular emphasis on contaminant remediation and water resources. Since many of the contaminants found at these sites are also dominant at industrial waste sites, much of this research is also applicable to problems faced by the private sector. |
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| Fundamental and Exploratory Research |
| The Basic Research Program area covers fundamental earth sciences research conducted in support of the Department of Energy's science mission, which includes research in the natural sciences to provide a basis for new and improved energy technologies and for understanding and mitigating the environmental impacts of energy use. This part of the Earth Sciences Division's program also includes exploratory research in important new energy and environmental topics conducted under the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program. |
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| Nuclear Waste |
| The role of ESD's Nuclear Waste Program (NWP) is to assist the U.S. Department of Energy, the United States, and other countries in achieving the safe disposal of high-level radioactive waste—by means of high-quality scientific analyses that encompass modeling, laboratory and field experiments, and technology development. The majority of research within NWP relates to Yucca Mountain, the proposed site for the permanent storage of high-level nuclear waste in the USA. |
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| Environmental Energy Technologies Division |
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| Advanced Energy Technologies |
| Scientists in this area conduct physical science research in support of energy technologies. Research is aimed at developing more environmentally friendly technologies for generating and storing energy, including better batteries and fuel cells, low-emission combustion, and better sensors and materials for environmentally cleaner sources of energy, and energy-efficient sources of light (organic light-emitting diodes). |
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| Atmospheric Sciences |
| Atmospheric Studies bring together scientists interested in atmospheric processes, technology, modeling and climate change studies. Because poor air quality has major health impacts, and control measures are costly, a better understanding of the underlying science can help focus on more effective, lower-cost methods of reducing air pollution. |
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| Buildings Energy Efficiency |
| Researchers in building technologies work closely with industry to develop efficient technologies for buildings that increase energy efficiency, and improve the comfort, health and safety of building occupants. |
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| Energy Analysis |
| The researchers of the Energy Analysis Department study aspects of energy end use in the United States, including the energy use of appliances, commercial and residential buildings, industry, the public sector, electricity markets, and transmission and distribution. The Department also analyzes the effect of proposed policy measures on energy use, and they apply their expertise in energy analysis to global energy end use research, including the potential effects of policies to mitigate carbon emissions and climate change. The interdependency of water and energy use is an emerging area of work. |
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| Indoor and Outdoor Environmental Quality |
| EETD researchers conduct a broad program of research and development with the goals of reducing the energy used for thermally conditioning and distributing ventilation air in buildings, improving indoor air quality (IAQ), thermal comfort and the health and productivity of building occupants, understanding human exposures to environmental pollutants found in indoor and outdoor air, improving the scientific understanding of factors and processes affecting air quality, and developing sound science to inform public policy on the most effective ways of reducing hazardous air pollutants. |
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| Environment Health and Safety Division |
| The Environment, Health, and Saftey Division is to help Berkeley Lab staff perform their work safely and in an environmentally sound manner. |
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