Yearly archive for 2014

Caroline Delaire conducts household survey in arsenic-affected villages of West Bengal, India

Caroline Delaire is conducting a household survey in arsenic-affected Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India, in order to quantify and better understand the adoption of alternatives […]

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ECAR team at Indo-US Science and Technology Form (IUSSTF) Tech Expo meeting at Greater Noida in India

L-R: Professor Ashok Gadgil, Dr Susan Amrose, Professor Joyashree Roy, Mr Raja Mohanty ( 18th Nov 2014)    

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Ashok Gadgil’s “Lessons Learned” talk at CITRIS — Sept 10, 2014

Ashok Gadgil gave a talk on UC Berkeley campus at the CITRIS Research Exchange, on Sept 10, 2014, titled: “Lessons Learned from Drinking Water Treatment, […]

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Hanna Breunig awarded an EPA STAR Fellowship

Hanna Breunig, Environmental Engineering PhD student, received an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) STAR fellowship for the coming year. The competitive STAR Fellowship attracts, supports and […]

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Kathleen Lask presents at the 35th International Symposium on Combustion

Kathleen presented at the 35th International Symposium on Combustion on August 8 in San Francisco. Her poster presentation entitled “Understanding the Reduction of Particulate Emissions […]

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Hanna Breunig spent a week in England with the MacArthur Foundation

Hanna spent a week in June at Cranfield University, UK with 17 other 2014 Schmidt-MacArthur Fellows and their mentors, and with the MacArthur Foundation for a […]

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Kathleen Lask awarded NSF GROW grant to Australia

The NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) grant is “a collaboration between NSF, international partners and USAID to provide NSF Fellows with expanded opportunities to […]

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Ashok Gadgil inducted in the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame

Of the >8 million total patents issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), inventors of only 10 to 12 patents are annually elected […]

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I-House at UC Berkeley honors Wendy Schmidt and Ashok Gadgil as Alumni of the Year

I-House at UC Berkeley honors Wendy Schmidt and Ashok Gadgil as Alumni of the Year

  International House (“I-House”) at UC Berkeley—one of the largest multi-national residential and programming cultural centers in the world— honored philanthropist Wendy Schmidt and inventor […]

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Caroline Delaire at Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Caroline Delaire at Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Caroline is spending a couple of weeks in Kolkata to work with Joyashree Roy and Abhijit Das from the Global Change Program at Jadavpur University […]

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“Emissions and Climate-Relevant Optical Properties of Pollutants Emitted from a Three-Stone Fire and the Berkeley-Darfur Stove Tested under Laboratory Conditions”. Preble et al., 2014. Environ. Sci. Technol.

"Emissions and Climate-Relevant Optical Properties of Pollutants Emitted from a Three-Stone Fire and the Berkeley-Darfur Stove Tested under Laboratory Conditions". Preble et al., 2014. Environ. Sci. Technol.

Cooking in the developing world generates pollutants that endanger the health of billions of people and contribute to climate change. This study quantified pollutants emitted […]

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Daniel Wilson arrives in Delhi for Fulbright

Daniel Wilson arrives in Delhi for Fulbright

Daniel Wilson arrived in India on March 31st, 2014 to begin his Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. During his time in India, […]

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Caroline Delaire wins an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

Caroline received the 2013-2014 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, sponsored by the GSI Teaching and Resource Center, in recognition for her achievements as a teacher […]

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“How many replicate tests are needed to test cookstove performance and emissions? – Three is not always adequate”. Wang et al., 2014. Energy for Sustainable Development

"How many replicate tests are needed to test cookstove performance and emissions? – Three is not always adequate". Wang et al., 2014. Energy for Sustainable Development

Almost half of the world’s population still cooks on biomass cookstoves of poor efficiency and primitive design, such as three stone fires (TSF). Emissions from […]

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Hanna Breunig has been named a 2014 Schmidt-MacArthur Fellow

Hanna Breunig will be representing UC Berkeley as a 2014 Schmidt-MacArthur Fellow. “The Schmidt-MacArthur Fellowship is an international postgraduate fellowship on the circular economy for […]

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“Structure of Fe(III) precipitates generated by the electrolytic dissolution of Fe(0) in the presence of groundwater ions”. van Genuchten et al., 2014. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

A recent publication (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2013.11.044) from the Gadgil Lab uncovers how bivalent cations and oxyanions control the structure of Fe(III) precipitates generated from Fe(II) oxidation. The […]

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ECAR licensed by Luminous Water Technologies

ECAR has been licensed exclusively for India and Bangladesh by Luminuous Water Technologies. Please read more in the LBNL press release here.

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