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Biometric calcification for carbon sequestration from seawater 
News Article, June 7, 2023 • Numerous objectives are involved in helping researchers work on biomimetic calcification for carbon sequestration from seawater. An integrated data science and experimental approach is being taken to the challenges of direct capture of CO2 from the ocean. A large group of marine microalgae, coccolithophores, produce calcium carbonate (calcite) plates referred...
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Exascale Earth System Model will harness the next level of supercomputer
News Article, October 12, 2022 • Sandia visualization experts are working with climate scientists to visualize complex simulation results from the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) as part of a DOE project sponsored by the Office of Science. The Sandia team has developed visualization workflows that incorporate DOE open-source visualization tools like ParaView with commercial...
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Microbiome editing to improve economic viability of algae growth as a feedstock
News Article, June 27, 2023 • The major challenge with using algae as a feedstock is growing it economically, which hinges strongly on the ability to prevent pond crashes due to biotic factors, like bacteria. Phages, the viruses of bacteria, offer an unexplored solution to this problem. In contrast to antibiotics, phages are typically species-specific and...
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Releasing, detecting, and modeling trace aerosols and gases in Earth’s stratosphere
News Article, May 1, 2023 • Proposed actions to reduce ever-increasing global temperatures include geoengineering the Earth’s climate by injecting matter into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight. This proposition, known as Solar Radiation Management, is based on global climate model studies averaged in space and time and Plinian-style volcanic eruptions observations from near-single points. By increasing...
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Soil carbon working group: Collaborative science to enhance predictive understanding.
News Article, April 30, 2024 • Project Description Current Energy Earth System Models (ESM) representation of soil organic matter (SOM) and its response to future environmental changes are not certain. The objective of SOM working group is to enhance our predictive understanding of the response of SOM under future environmental changes. The team hopes to achieve...
Algae is shown growing from underneath the water.