Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Heat Island Group
Livermore National Labs research group site. Contains information from a Heat Island informational pamphlet. The group studies the extent of the heat island phenomena and the effectiveness of different ways of combatting it.
http://eande.lbl.gov/HeatIsland/
Top/Science/Earth_Sciences/Meteorology/Climate/Urban

How Shiny Is L.A.?
Reports of surface albedo (reflectivity) of Los Angeles and California's South Coast Air Basin (SoCAB).
http://eetd.lbl.gov/EA/Buildings/RResearch/LA.html
Top/Science/Earth_Sciences/Meteorology/Climate/Urban

Astronomical Theory Offers New Explanation For Ice Age
Article about research suggesting that cyclical changes in the location of the Earth's orbit causing differing amounts of extraterrestrial debris to come into the atmosphere, and not the Milankovitch theory, explain cycles of glaciation in the last milli
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/ice-age-sediments.html
Top/Science/Earth_Sciences/Quaternary_Studies/Quaternary_Climate_Change

Did You Ever Wonder?
Each month a dozen questions are posed and answered by lab scientists on various topics on how things work in the natural world.
http://www.lbl.gov/wonder/
Top/Science/Educational_Resources

Commercial Building Ventilation and Indoor Environmental Quality
Explains about research that is being performed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Offers explanation of ventilation rates, volatile organic compounds (VOC's), sick building syndrome, and particle filtration. Page includes information about
http://eetd.lbl.gov/ied/viaq/viaq.html
Top/Science/Environment/Air_Quality/Indoor_Air_Quality

DOE Center for Research on Ocean Carbon Sequestration
United States Department of Energy (DOE) view of techniques for storing carbon in the ocean.
http://esd.lbl.gov/CLIMATE/OCEAN/
Top/Science/Environment/Carbon_Cycle/Carbon_Management

The GEO-SEQ Project
Describes U.S. public-private research and development on methods for capture and geologic sequestration of CO2.
http://esd.lbl.gov/co2geostorage/research/geoseq/geoseq.html
Top/Science/Environment/Carbon_Cycle/Carbon_Management

Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR) Program
Provides the scientific understanding needed to use natural processes and to develop methods to accelerate these processes for the bioremediation of contaminated soils, sediments, and groundwater at US Department of Energy (DOE) facilities.
http://www.lbl.gov/NABIR/
Top/Science/Environment/Hazardous_Waste/Remediation_Technology/Biological_Remediation

Bailey, David
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Experimental mathematics and scientific computing. Research papers, photos, and links.
http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/
Top/Science/Math/Number_Theory/People/B

Multiprecision Software Directory
Fortran multiprecision software by David H. Bailey of Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/mpdist.html
Top/Science/Math/Number_Theory/Software