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Berkeley Lab leads a DOE-funded initiative to advance Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), promoting indoor farming to reduce land/water use, emissions, and enhance food security through innovation and community collaboration nationwide.

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Northern San Joaquin Valley: Berkeley Lab, UC Merced, and BEAM Circular are developing actionable and strategic plans to create an innovation campus and ecosystem in the Northern San Joaquin Valley centered on biomanufacturing.

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Southern San Joaquin Valley: Partnering with the surrounding communities to evaluate the feasibility of a sophisticated direct air capture hub.

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Salton Sea: Steering research and development in lithium recovery technologies through an environmental science perspective, leveraging unconventional resources, and collaborating closely with community stakeholders.

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Our lab is committed to increasing participation in science. Through our K-12 STEM education and outreach programs, we connect with students and encourage their interest in science and technology.

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Forrester broadly focuses on energy affordability, distributed energy resources, and new utility business models. More specifically, her work includes studying both the quantitative and policy-driven aspects of distributed energy resources and their impacts on the grid and ratepayers.

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Wei is a Staff Scientist in the Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems Department in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division. His expertise is in energy system modeling for deep decarbonization, residential building modeling, and more.

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Breunig is a Research Scientist in the Sustainable Energy Systems Group in the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division. She holds a secondary joint appointment in the Earth Systems and Society Domain in the Climate and Ecosystem Science Division. Hanna specializes in spatially- and temporally-resolved environmental, human health, and economic impact assessment of emerging energy and wastewater treatment technologies.

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