(AGENPARL) – ven 01 settembre 2023 A weekly compendium of media reports on science and technology achievements
at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Though the Laboratory reviews
items for overall accuracy, the reporting organizations are responsible for
the content in the links below.
….. LLNL Report, Sept. 1, 2023
The IGI intend to develop and apply precision microbiome editing to address
two key areas of need that are linked by a root cause, problem-causing
microbes; these are childhood asthma and agricultural methane emissions.
… CRISPR for Cows
https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/articles/precision-microbiome-editing-to-tackle-methane-emissions-375914
In 2006, two University of California (UC) Berkeley scientists
– Professors Jillian Banfield
https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/jill-banfield and Jennifer Doudna
https://innovativegenomics.org/people/jennifer-doudna/ – met for coffee at
the Free Speech Café, located on campus. In the years since, their
individual research contributions have shaped the fields of genomics and
microbiology, transforming our understanding of how life functions on our
planet.
As a collective, they’re now embarking on an adventurous $70 million
project at the Innovative Genomics Institute
https://innovativegenomics.org/ (IGI), part of UC Berkeley. The
collaborative project combines two cutting-edge technologies, developed in
Doudna and Banfield’s respective labs, to address our world’s
greatest* *challenges using its smallest inhabitants.
The IGI is a joint research effort comprising institutions such as UC
Berkeley and UC San Francisco, with affiliates at UC Davis, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Gladstone
Institutes and other institutions. It was founded by Doudna in 2014 on the UC
Berkeley campus.
Read More
https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/articles/precision-microbiome-editing-to-tackle-methane-emissions-375914
A school building damaged from shelling in the city of Chernihiv, Ukraine.
Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images
… Seismometers detect bombs in real-time
Existing seismometers in Ukraine – normally used to monitor nuclear weapons
tests or detect earthquakes – have been repurposed to detect the times and
locations of more than 1200 explosions in provinces near Kyiv. The explosive
power registered by the seismometers also provides clues about the ammunition
or weapons behind each blast.
“We’re automatically processing data and seeing explosions almost as they
happen,” says Ben Dando
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=j6YyycoAAAAJ&hl=en at NORSAR, a
seismic research foundation in Norway. “That has never been done in an
active conflict in real-time before.”
Dando and his colleagues started out by looking for unusual explosions near
Ukraine’s nuclear power plants in February 2022. They soon realized that
they were picking up a wide variety of explosions as battles raged and
Russian airstrikes targeted Ukrainian cities.
Read More
Daniel McCoy, a UW assistant professor of atmospheric science, received a
two-year $998,587 DOE grant to study Earth system models as the foundation of
how to predict what the global environment on Earth will look like in future
decades. Credit: UW.
… Modeling future Earth

University of Wyoming’s McCoy Leads Earth System Model Project with $1M DOE Grant

Understanding and predicting the global environment are critical to inform
decisions across infrastructure, energy and agriculture. To understand and
predict the global environment, global models are needed.
To better tackle this issue, Daniel McCoy, a University of Wyoming assistant
professor of atmospheric science, is looking at Earth system models (ESMs) as
the foundation of how to predict what Earth will look like in future decades.
McCoy received a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant worth $998,587 over
two years for his project titled “Creating the Framework for the
Next-Generation Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) at PROCEED
(Perturbed Physics Ensemble Regression Optimization Center for ESM Evaluation
and Development).” The grant starts Sept. 1 and ends Aug. 31, 2025.
The group will work with scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Additionally, the grant will have
an external advisory panel, including scientists at the U.K. Meteorological
Office, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of
California-San Diego, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Delft
University of Technology.
Read More

University of Wyoming’s McCoy Leads Earth System Model Project with $1M DOE Grant

NASA Astronaut and former LLNL engineer Jose Hernandez is the subject of a
new biopic coming out in September.
… LLNL Astronaut José Hernández on silver screen
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/stockton-jose-hernandez-movie-astronaut/103-db944ad8-6be2-4baf-a52c-0c7f7c35d53
From the fields to space and now to the silver screen, a new movie
chronicling the life of Stockton  https://www.abc10.com/stocktonastronaut
José Hernández
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/you-feel-like-superman-former-nasa-astronaut-jose-hernandez-still-sees-stars/103-5b698614-6d6b-4ca7-a262-638de2deadf3
is set for a September release date.
In an announcement Tuesday, Amazon Prime Video said that its new film, “A
Million Miles Away
https://press.amazonstudios.com/us/en/original-movies/a-million-miles-away”
will be available on the streaming platform starting Sept. 15. It will also
be available in select theaters on Sept. 8.
Hernández, who celebrated his 61st birthday in early August, was born in
French Camp but calls Stockton home. As a kid, he worked in fields with his
family, eventually graduating from Franklin High School, the University of
the Pacific and UC Santa Barbara.
After years of work at the Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory in
Livermore, Hernández joined NASA’s Johnson Space Center in 2001. In 2009
Hernández joined six other astronauts on the Space Shuttle Discovery for a
15-day trip to the International Space Station.
Read More
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/stockton-jose-hernandez-movie-astronaut/103-db944ad8-6be2-4baf-a52c-0c7f7c35d53
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