BER Highlights

Ground water microbes living outside a contaminated area contain mobile genetic elements that provide them resistance to heavy metals.

Scientists use supercomputers to determine how reliably a popular Earth system model represents precipitation regionally and globally.

A first-of-its-kind computer simulation reveals self-healing cement for geothermal and oil and gas wells performs better than originally thought.

Researchers set out to discover the mechanisms that control the accumulation of PCA under dryland conditions. Led by Melissa LeTourneau, an Office

While previous studies used hunter-killed animals, this study sampled live free-ranging Alaska moose grazing in the wild. By equipping these moose

The team re-created a shale microbial community in the laboratory. This allowed them to measure microbial activity and fluid chemistry under

While scientists have been studying the binding of uranium to iron-bearing minerals for some time using X-ray spectroscopy, different researchers

To know how microbial activity varied in response to flooding, the team studied three types of organic matter that are commonly found in three

Previous studies led scientists to believe the distribution of bacterially derived metabolic by-products within the nodules was uniform. Scientists

Working with simulated and observed surface ozone data within the United States covering a 25-year period, the researchers analyzed how the

Information on human water use is often available only on large space and time scales. To better inform Earth system models and global hydrologic

Knowledge of plant root function under stress is largely based on indirect measurements of bulk soil water or nutrient extraction, which limits

While atmospheric methane concentrations plateaued between 1995 and 2006, they have since increased and are expected to impact the surface energy

The team analyzed twelve disdrometer data sets (including four from the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user

In this study, the team used anoxic microcosms with sediments from nearshore areas of Lake Superior’s St. Louis River Estuary. The sediments

Earth system models struggle to represent some aspects of tropical circulations, leading to offsets from observations in tropical rainfall. In

The primary pathway for nutrient-rich, deep ocean waters to return to the surface is in the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, at the Antarctic

In the Arctic, the amount of nitrogen available strongly influences plant productivity and distribution. In permafrost systems with patterned

The research community increasingly recognizes that rivers, despite their relatively small imprints on the landscape, play big roles in watershed

The soils you find underfoot are typically 5 to 10 percent organic carbon. However, 3 feet and more below the surface, the organic carbon levels

The rapid change now underway on Thwaites Glacier, located in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, raises concern that a threshold for unstoppable

Building on previous research, scientists from The Ohio State University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Environmental Molecular

The researchers observed mutualistic interactions between heterotrophic bacteria and two species of biofuels-relevant microalgae,

Large amounts of soil carbon sequestered in permafrost are becoming available for microbial degradation as permafrost thaws. Its fate is unclear;

Over the last two decades, scientists have learned a great deal about the impacts of ocean viruses on microbial mortality, carbon and nutrient