In the News/Media Mentions – Page 11

July 24, 2019August 20, 2022

ETA’s Chelsea Preble was interviewed by FOX Channel 2 News about a Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley effort to measure black carbon in West Oakland neighborhoods. Black carbon contributes to global warming and is a health hazard. One hundred sensors were installed to monitor levels of black carbon.

https://youtu.be/6X8f9CLBoB8

July 18, 2019August 20, 2022

A recent New York Times article on tropical storms being wetter due to climate change references a study by the Lab’s Christina Patricola. Her research found that hurricanes in recent years have lingered longer and dumped more rainfall — a sign of climate change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/climate/hurricane-tropical-storms.html

June 17, 2019August 20, 2022

Ronnen talks about cool infrastructure as potential solution to city heat. Tip for Soundcloud listeners: Tune in at minute 6:45 for his remarks.

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/hot-enough-for-you-cooling-the-worsening-urban-heat-island/

May 24, 2019August 20, 2022

In a special issue of mSystems, JGI’s Rex Malmstrom, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, and Simon Roux contribute perspectives on what the next five years of innovation genomics might look like. Their forecast includes emerging research on restructuring individual microbes and developing the field of ecogenomics.

https://jgi.doe.gov/jgi-researchers-msystems-innovation-issue/

May 15, 2019August 20, 2022

EESA’s Bill Collins was interviewed as part of the first episode of a new Marketplace Tech series on using tech to adapt to climate change. The radio program airs on NPR stations nationwide.

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/climate-change-technology-adaptation-how-we-survive/

May 7, 2019August 20, 2022

In a recent Nature article, EESA researcher Charles Koven co-authored a commentary on how the Arctic permafrost is thawing much more quickly than models have predicted. The researchers warn this might double the warming from greenhouse gases released from tundra.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01313-4

April 5, 2019August 20, 2022

EESA Associate Laboratory Director Susan Hubbard moderated a panel in Sacramento Thursday about the impact California wildfires are having on the environment, with research scientist Michelle Newcomer as a panelist. It was hosted by the California Council on Science & Technology. Watch the video.

April 4, 2019August 20, 2022

Researchers in the Lab’s Computational Research Division are applying deep learning and analytics to electronic health record data to help the Veterans Administration address a host of medical and psychological challenges affecting many of the nation’s 700,000 military veterans.

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/04/03/deep-learning-to-help-veterans/

April 3, 2019August 20, 2022

Dark Energy Instrument’s Lenses See Sky for the First Time

The dome of the Mayall Telescope opened to the night sky Monday and starlight poured through the assembly of six large lenses. The first focused images with these precision lenses marked an important “first light” milestone for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI. https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/04/03/dark-energy-instruments-lenses-see-night-sky-first-time/

April 3, 2019August 20, 2022

The dome of the Mayall Telescope opened to the night sky Monday and starlight poured through the assembly of six large lenses. The first focused images with these precision lenses marked an important “first light” milestone for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, or DESI.

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/04/03/dark-energy-instruments-lenses-see-night-sky-first-time/