Achievement

A team of trainees from Geophysics, Environmental Science and Engineering, and Computer Science with their advisors are developing a near-real-time bioremediation system. Over the past period, trainees have developed a low communication CMA-ES parallel algorithm that has demonstrated vast improvement on multiple cores of a single node. They have also performed SIP experiments on field site water and water with various concentrations of acetate. Interdisciplinary research and testing is ongoing in the areas of detecting bioremediation, developing networking and algorithms for data acquisition and analysis, and developing better understanding in detection of biogeochemical bioremediation. Field testing is planned at a DOE Fund Integrated Field Research Challenge Site (IFRC) in Rifle CO where trainees are working closely with Kenneth Williams and his team from Laurence Berkeley National Lab.