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ESD offers a unique combination of national user facilities and world-class scientists. Click on this message and then select “Postdoctoral Fellow” for Career path and “Earth Sciences” for Division.
DSSS: Rod Ewing Lecture on Pyrochlore

Rod Ewing Lecture on Pyrochlore

Rod Ewing, (Univ. of Michigan), presented the last ESD Distinguished Scientist lecture for the 2009 fiscal year entitled "Pyrochlore: The Elegant Response of a Simple Structure to Extreme Conditions of Irradiation and Pressure."
Exploring the Fate of Ocean Carbon

Exploring the Fate of Ocean Carbon

The June issue of the oceanographic society’s magazine commemorates the National Oceanographic Partnership Program, which supported the work of Jim Bishop and colleagues in the Earth Sciences Division.
Water: the Source of Life

Water: the Source of Life

The June edition of LBNL's 2009 Year of Science series is dedicated to learning more about oceans and water and cites Earth Science Division scientists Inez Fung and Jim Bishop.
Microbial Matters

Microbial Matters

This recent review highlights some of the studies done by Janet Jansson and her colleagues within ESD on the human gut microbiome, and the role that intestinal microbes play in health and disease.
Todd DeSantis & Phylochip in "Theater"

Todd DeSantis & Phylochip in "Theater"

The Lab's most recent "Science at the Theater" (Monday, May 11^th) included Earth Scientist Todd DeSantis, who presented the Phylochip, a pocket-sized DNA probe.
Was Mars’ Magnetic Field Blasted Away?

Was Mars’ Magnetic Field Blasted Away?

Berkeley Lab earth scientist Michael Manga and colleagues suggest that energy released by massive collisions upset the heat flow in Mars’ iron core that produced the magnetic field.
Ocean Carbon: A Dent in Iron Hypothesis

Ocean Carbon: A Dent in Iron Hypothesis

Jim Bishop and Todd Wood analyzed the data and found that most of the carbon from lush plankton blooms, whether artificially fertilized or natural, never reaches the deep ocean.
ESD Director Don DePaolo to lead EFRC

ESD Director Don DePaolo to lead EFRC

Berkeley Lab will be home to the Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 to study carbon dioxide storage deep underground. ESD Director Don DePaolo will lead the Energy Research Frontier Center.
DSSS: Dr. Charlet Video Replay

Dr. Laurent Charlet, April 24, 2009

View the video replay of ESD's Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series guest Dr. Laurent Charlet's presentation: "Field-Scale to Molecular-Scale Modeling of Arsenic in Bengal Groundwater".

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Latest News & Events

This Week's Events

ESD Press Archive

Multiple opportunities for Post-Docs

ESD offers a unique combination of national user facilities and world-class scientists. Click on this message and then select “Postdoctoral Fellow” for Career path and “Earth Sciences” for Division.

Rod Ewing Lecture on Pyrochlore

Rod Ewing, (Univ. of Michigan), presented the last ESD Distinguished Scientist lecture for the 2009 fiscal year entitled "Pyrochlore: The Elegant Response of a Simple Structure to Extreme Conditions of Irradiation and Pressure."

Exploring the Fate of Ocean Carbon

The June issue of the oceanographic society’s magazine commemorates the National Oceanographic Partnership Program, which supported the work of Jim Bishop and colleagues in the Earth Sciences Division.

Water: the Source of Life

The June edition of LBNL's 2009 Year of Science series is dedicated to learning more about oceans and water and cites Earth Science Division scientists Inez Fung and Jim Bishop.

Microbial Matters

This recent review highlights some of the studies done by Janet Jansson and her colleagues within ESD on the human gut microbiome, and the role that intestinal microbes play in health and disease.

Todd DeSantis & Phylochip in "Theater"

The Lab's most recent "Science at the Theater" (Monday, May 11^th) included Earth Scientist Todd DeSantis, who presented the Phylochip, a pocket-sized DNA probe.

Was Mars’ Magnetic Field Blasted Away?

Berkeley Lab earth scientist Michael Manga and colleagues suggest that energy released by massive collisions upset the heat flow in Mars’ iron core that produced the magnetic field.

Ocean Carbon: A Dent in Iron Hypothesis

Jim Bishop and Todd Wood analyzed the data and found that most of the carbon from lush plankton blooms, whether artificially fertilized or natural, never reaches the deep ocean.

ESD Director Don DePaolo to lead EFRC

Berkeley Lab will be home to the Center for Nanoscale Control of Geologic CO2 to study carbon dioxide storage deep underground. ESD Director Don DePaolo will lead the Energy Research Frontier Center.

Dr. Laurent Charlet, April 24, 2009

View the video replay of ESD's Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series guest Dr. Laurent Charlet's presentation: "Field-Scale to Molecular-Scale Modeling of Arsenic in Bengal Groundwater".

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