On a recent spring morning drilling equipment clattered away on the University of California at Berkeley campus where scientists and engineers are looking for a way to improve the efficiency of a new, planned campus heating and cooling system.

The boring project started March 28 on the campus’s north side and by the end of the week, an 8-inch drill bit had burrowed 400 feet into the ground.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.