Berkeley Lab’s LDRD program exists because the United States Congress has allowed federal Laboratory Directors a limited amount of overhead funding for the purpose of seeding research and development projects. This rests on the belief that some of the most innovative and useful ideas might otherwise be unable to get the initial support, which is prerequisite to more standard funding sources.

Dan Feldman, Systematic Studies to Characterize Errors in Atmospheric Forcing on Mountainous Watersheds

Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, Understanding the effects of variation in water availability on vegetation photosynthetic activity

Charlie Koven, Exploring Wildfire Effects on Mountain Hydrology Using the FATES-SPITFIRE-Hillslope Model

Matthias Sprenger, LateSt-Iso: Linking atmosphere to ecohydrology via high-frequency stable isotope measurements during

Jinyun Tang, EcoSIM for BioEPIC

Hang Deng, Enhanced Weathering for Negative Emissions for negative C emissions

Nori Nakata, Direct measurements of subsurface 4D permeability with Earth tide

Sebastien Uhlemann, 5G-enabled real-time, distributed sensing for critical infrastructure management

Mike Whittaker, Subsurface Critical Element Extraction with Electrokinetic Feedback (EKF)

Yingqi Zhang, Geo-Heating and Cooling with Novel Subsurface Porous Medium Ice Storage