Los Alamos National Laboratory
Delivering science and technology to protect our nation and promote world stability
Earth and Environmental Sciences
We provide solutions to complex problems in climate and environmental change, sustainable energy, and national security.
Climate Science
Monitoring and studying dynamics between Earth, ecosystems, the atmosphere and climate 
Sustainable Energy
Capturing carbon and researching cleaner, more efficient energy sources 
Global Security
Detecting and predicting threats such as wildfires, earthquakes, and nuclear detonations 
Repository Science
Geoscience, chemistry to understand radionuclide behavior, support legacy site cleanup
Studying ecological, climate, and atmospheric impacts; sustainable and carbon-neutral energy; detection of nuclear threats
In Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES), we combine our capabilities in field and laboratory measurements with analysis and modeling on high-performance computers to:
- Reveal climate change drivers and ecosystem impacts
- Perfect geological greenhouse gas sequestration
- Model and predict subsurface movement
- Improve geothermal and unconventional oil/gas extraction
- Develop wind energy
- Predict wildland and urban fires
- Provide advanced seismic imaging
- Monitor, detect and predict underground explosions, improvised weapons.
Research Directions
- Advanced computational Earth sciences
- Atmospheric, climate and ecosystem science
- Geology and geophysics
- Hydrology
- Study and modeling of Earth’s processes and materials
Primary Expertise
- Atmospheric Science
- Computational Science
- Ecology
- Engineering
- Geochemistry
- Geology
- Geomaterials
- Geophysics
- Hydrology
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