Carl Steefel
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Carl Steefel is currently a Senior Scientist at Berkeley Laboratory in the Energy Geosciences Division, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area. He has over 40 years of experience in developing models for multicomponent reactive transport in porous media and applying them to topics related to coupled subsurface processes, terrestrial geochemical fluxes, water-rock interaction, chemical and enhanced weathering, and reactive contaminant transport. Recent work has focused on modeling of geologic hydrogen and geochemical transport through clay-rich rocks. He is the principal developer of the CrunchFlow software, which won an R&D100 Award in 2017. He was named an AGU Fellow in 2019 and received the Berkeley Lab Director’s Award for LIfetime Achievement in 2026 and Exceptional Scientific Achievement in 2020. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Area of Interest
- Geochemistry
- Geology
- Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
- Civil Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Reactive transport
- Geologic hydrogen
- Enhanced weathering
- Chemical weathering
- Contaminant transport
- Geological disposal of waste
- High-performance computing
- Pore-scale reactive transport
- Chemo-mechanical processes
Education
- PhD|Yale University, New Haven, United States|1991
- MS|University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States|1981
- BA|Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, United States|1974
