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Environmental and Earth Science

Argonne maintains a wide-ranging science and technology portfolio that seeks to address complex challenges in interdisciplinary and innovative ways. Below is a list of all articles, highlights, profiles, projects, and organizations related specifically to environmental and earth science.

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  • Heidi M. Hartmann

    The focus of Ms. Hartmann’s career has been the assessment of the impacts of environmental stressors on human health and ecosystems, with an emphasis on stressors introduced by various types of energy use.

  • Julie D. Jastrow

    Julie Jastrow is an ecologist and soil scientist who studies how plant-microbe-soil interactions and soil forming processes affect biogeochemical dynamics and responses to perturbation

  • Subsurface Biogeochemical Research

    The long-term goal of the Argonne Wetland Hydrobiogeochemistry Scientific Focus Area is to develop a mechanistic understanding and ability to model the coupled hydrological, geochemical, and biological processes controlling water quality in wetlands.

  • Renewable opportunities abundant in Illinois

    Huge amounts of organic waste are generated each year in the United States, according to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This creates a sizable market for technologies that can convert these wastes into usable products.
    Meltem Urgun Demirtas, an environmental engineer in Argonne’s Energy Systems Division

  • The inner secrets of planets and stars

    After a five-year, 1.74 billion-mile journey, NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter’s orbit in July 2016, to begin its mission to collect data on the structure, atmosphere, and magnetic and gravitational fields of the mysterious planet.
    A 3-D rendering shows simulated solar convection realized at different rotation rates.

  • After-school energy rush

    How can high school students help develop plans to clean the air in major U.S. cities? The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is finding out.
    Chicago high school students study different kinds of alternative energy.

  • Sensing their way to the future

    When Pete Beckman was an undergraduate in the 1980s, science and engineering majors typically sought summer jobs as lifeguards, golf caddies and other such positions filled by teenagers.
    Jordan Fleming examines a sensor from Argonne’s Array of Things project.

  • The outsized role of soil microbes

    Many complexities of the carbon sequestration process remain poorly understood, despite years of research and the significant impact of this process on global climate.
    The soil microbial carbon pump (MCP) moves carbon derived from microbial anabolism into soil where it can become stabilized by the entombing effect.