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Water table depth tied to droughts

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Recent modeling results show that the depth of the water table, which results from lateral water flow at the surface and subsurface, determines the relative susceptibility of regions to changes in temperature and precipitation.

Journal: Nature Geoscience

After the first decade of metagenomics -- adolescent growth spurt anticipated

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ten years after the term was coined, metagenomics is going mainstream and already paying provocative dividends in the areas of energy and environment, according to a "Q&A," News and Views by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute microbial ecology program head Philip Hugenholtz and MIT researcher Gene Tyson, published in the Sep. 25 edition of the journal Nature.

Journal: Nature
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

BOSS: the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

One of the most crucial components of the new program of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its 2.5 m, wide-field telescope in New Mexico is a unique kind of dark-energy probe called BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, led by Berkeley Lab physicists.

Melting ice under pressure

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The deep interior of Neptune, Uranus and Earth may contain some solid ice.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

BOSS: The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A unique dark-energy probe called BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is a crucial component of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's third program. Led by physicists at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, BOSS will use the Sloan 2.5-meter, wide-field telescope in New Mexico to collect and measure more than a million galaxies and quasars.

Funder: Sloan Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Sloan Digital Sky Survey

IMPACTS: On the threshold of abrupt climate change

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Abrupt climate change is the focus of IMPACTS, a major new program bringing together six US Department of Energy national laboratories to investigate the instability of marine ice sheets, warming of the boreal forests and Arctic, megadroughts in the Southwestern United States, and methane release from frozen hydrates.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Improving our ability to peek inside molecules

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

It's not easy to see a single molecule inside a living cell. Nevertheless, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are helping to develop a new technique that will enable them to create detailed high-resolution images, giving scientists an unprecedented look at the atomic structure of cellular molecules.

Journal: Nature

A snapshot of the transformation

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have achieved a milestone in materials science and electron microscopy by taking a high-resolution snapshot of the transformation of nanoscale structures.

Journal: Science

DOE JGI extends the capabilities of the Integrated Microbial Genome System

DOE/Joint Genome Institute
Business Announcement

The US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has extended the capabilities of the Integrated Microbial Genomes data management system, updated the content of the IMG/M metagenome data management and analysis system, and has launched its educational companion site, IMG/EDU.

Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy

Tracking down the menace in Mexico City smog

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chemical scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were part of the multinational MILAGRO team who showed that, bad as the traffic is, the most harmful air pollution in Mexico City may not come from burning fossil fuels. Instead the culprit may be garbage incineration.

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology
Funder: DOE/US Department of Energy, NASA, Mexican Comision Ambiental Metropolitana, National Science Foundation