For over 50 years, EES has worked in nearly every corner of the world to understand the causes, stressors and solutions to domestic and international threats. From cutting-edge facilities to mobile labs deployed worldwide, we have the infrastructure to advance innovative research across a wide array of specialties. Our work seeks to investigate Earth system impacts and emerging threats to advance the national security mission of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) Division is the intellectual home of geosciences, atmospheric studies, hydrology and ecology at the Laboratory.
EES provides field, experimental, and theoretical expertise to solve complex problems in national security.
The EES division is comprised of four groups, each with a distinct set of focus areas and capabilities.
Ways we secure a better world
Our researchers tackle problems relating to everything from nuclear threat detection to energy.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning methods and analytics
- High performance computing
- Seismic imaging
- Nonlinear acoustics and signal modeling
- Subsurface fluid flow
- Earth system modeling
- Smoke and atmospheric species transport modeling
- Wildland and urban fire modeling
- Critical mineral extraction, processing, and usage
- Underground nuclear explosion detection
- Geothermal energy prospecting and production
Contact
- EES Division Office