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How Wildfires Transform Soil Chemistry

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Peter Nico Appointed Director of Berkeley Lab’s Energy Geosciences Division

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Microbes Matter: A New Framework to Represent Microbial Function in Ecosystem Models

Closing Knowledge Gaps in the Carbon Cycle by Studying Coastal Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes

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BioEPIC: Crossing Scales and Disciplines to Accelerate our Understanding of How Microbes Impact Earth’s Ecosystems

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EESA Scientists Investigate How Tropical Soil Microbes Might Respond to Future Droughts

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EESA Scientists Develop New Model to Study Watershed Flow and Chemical Transport

A scientific figure depicting three two sections: a) Mountainous watershed response to changing rain and snow involves many processes that occur across scales and subsystems like hillslopes and bedrock. (Hubbard et al., 2018). b) Comparison between observed and simulated Concentration-Discharge responses at the watershed outlet.

EESA Scientists Model Watershed Response to Future Climate Extremes

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Small-scale Changes in Environment Can Have Large Effects on Microbial Communities

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Depending Upon Soil Depth, Warming Affects Microbes Differently

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Tiny Toxins: How Algal Blooms Affect Coastal Systems Through a Complex Web of Interactions

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Berkeley Lab Receives DOE Support for Building to Study Microbe-Ecosystem Interactions for Energy and Environmental Research

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