Senior Scientist | Bioenergy 🌱 & circular plastics ♻️ LCA/TEA | Mom of 2 | Opinions=own (she/her)
Emeryville, CA
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Doing my best to connect energy researchers with opportunities today. I cannot promise super fast responses but feel free to fill this out: forms.gle/KDoKz3u1Pd41ruaf8 (usually I send this to PhD students and postdocs, but opening it up more broadly given the circumstances)
Popping back in here after months of dormancy (sorry, but this site just ain't what it used to be!) to share the video of our TEA workshop covering tools from @BerkeleyLab and @jbei. Enjoy 😀 youtu.be/aAiH228EViA?si=q8bs…
Nice UCB study on the human health impacts of deploying carbon capture and sequestration, now out in @naturesustainab! Check out the paper here: rdcu.be/fopCu
We ♥️ our collaborators at escience.washington.edu/! Thank you to @schmidtsciences for supporting the partnership. The calbioscape.org tool is now lightening fast and primed for impact 🙌 escience.washington.edu/ca-b…
Daughter, today at breakfast: "The only thing I know about Spongebob Squarepants is that he is a big piece of cheese"
A little 3.1 jolt to get us all in the mood for the Great ShakeOut earthquake drill later this morning!
🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M3.1 occurred 12 mi NE of San Francisco (#California) 3 min ago (local time 09:23:45). More info at:
📱m.emsc.eu/#app
🌐m.emsc.eu/?id=1882050
🖥emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_inf…
Thanks to @BerkeleyLab for the commitment to outreach. It is always one of my kids' favorite spots on the Solano Stroll. Educating the next generation of scientists 👩🔬🧑🔬
Corinne Scown retweeted
The Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) connects industry with world-class research at UC Berkeley, LBNL & UIUC. With 7,000+ faculty/postdocs & 100,000+ students, we help sponsors grow research portfolios through one contract, driving #impact in #energy & #sustainability.
Loving seeing these collaborations between @jbei @CABBIbio and @GLBioenergy -- the BRCs are on a ROLL.
In a cross-country collaboration, researchers from CABBI, @GLBioenergy and @jbei developed industrially feasible techniques for second-generation #biofuel production from oilcane, a variety of sugarcane, to help meet the growing demand for fuels.
News ➡️ cabbi.bio/pretreatment-metho…
ALT A photo of three researchers standing in front of bioprocessing equipment at the Integrated Bioprocessing Research Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Another @jbei publication hot off the presses! 7 herbaceous, 9 woody, 4 food processing residues, and 2 blends all decontructed using butylamine. We can hit $1.3 to 6.1/kg sugar now, process intensification needed to hit $0.45–0.79/kg. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Using lignocellulosic biomass for biomanufacturing has long been the dream. Low-input grasses, ag residues, you name it. One challenge remains: microbes consume xylose more slowly than glucose. Our @jbei team digs into what this means in our new paper doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2…
How much xylan vs. glucan is in your original feedstock REALLY matters. Capital-constrained biorefineries operating with shorter residence times can justify paying up to 1.5X to 2X the price for feedstocks with very high glucan to xylan ratios.
Corinne Scown retweeted
If you're submitting an #AGU2025 abstract on #enhancedrockweathering biogeochemistry, microbiology, hydrology, modeling, MRV, public policy or social science, consider session B037, Enhanced Weathering for Carbon Dioxide Removal & Improved Soil and Agronomic Properties -due 7/30!
Mike has been a really wonderful leader. Supportive, curious, and a true believer in the important mission of the national labs. I feel so lucky to have spent so much of my career at LBNL with him at the helm.
Lab Director Mike Witherell will retire in June 2026. Witherell has led the Lab through a historic period of scientific achievement and recognized operational excellence, with a deep commitment to developing the next generation of scientists.
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newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/07/2…
ALT Color, vertical portrait of Mike Witherell, with black background. Photo by Christopher Michel.
In light of news that they might get their budget cut, I just want to share how absolutely amazing the CSB’s investigations and videos for the public are. I used them for teaching. It always made me proud that our government supports stuff like this: youtube.com/@uscsb?si=lXTwYF…
We have a team of rising stars at @BerkeleyLab @BerkeleyLabETA who are doing incredible work in critical materials & supply chain research. Keep an eye out for more from this team. Here are just a few recent papers (including preprints):
U.S. battery material supply chains and recycling costs: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
The potential for cost-competitive lithium extraction from clay relative to brines and hard rock ores: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv…
