The Tree of Life, which depicts how life has evolved and diversified on the planet, is getting a lot more complicated. UC Berkeley researchers, who have discovered more than a thousand new types of bacteria and Archaea over the past 15 years lurking in Earth’s nooks and crannies, have rejiggered the tree to account for…
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Last week on March 22, the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) announced the winners of the 2016 High Performance Computing (HPC) Achievement Awards during the annual NERSC Users Group meeting at Berkeley Lab. Congratulations go to Charles Koven and William Riley of the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division as well…
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Women Scientists and Engineers Council (WSEC) at Berkeley Lab advocates for career development and work-life balance for women. Anyone (including men) who advocates for women in the sciences can become a member. Ongoing throughout the year, WSEC holds events and contributes to lab-wide efforts. Each division sends an official representative. EGD’s WSEC representative is Romy…
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Meet the three students who were selected for UC sponsored Global Food Initiative! This year’s UC GFI Fellows – Class of 2016 are mentored by 3 of our EESA scientists. Kripa Akila Jagannathan is a graduate student in UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group and is a second year UC GFI Fellow. She will be…
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LBNL’s News Center, October 30, 2016: Science published the call for a national effort to understand and harness Earth’s microbes: a Unified Microbiome Initiative. Co-authors include Berkeley Lab researchers, Paul Alivisatos (LBNL Director), Eoin Brodie (Deputy Director of the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division), Mary Maxon (Biosciences Area Principal Deputy), Eddy Rubin (Director of the Joint Genome Institute) and Peidong…
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The Precision Urban Agriculture Initiative (Urban Ag), led by Romy Chakraborty (an ecology scientist in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division), brings a team of scientists together from the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area and the Energy Technologies Area to look at addressing the intersection of two problems—the environmental damage caused by conventional agriculture and…
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Robinson Negrón-Juárez, Charles Koven, William Riley, Ryan Knox, and Jeff Chambers, researchers in EESA and CESD, published a letter in Environmental Research Letters showing that most earth system models (ESM) overpredict tropical forest biomass in response to increased forest productivity. In contrast, observations show that as tropical forest productivity increases, trees do not continue to store CO2 at…
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ESMs (Earth system models) are crucial in estimating climate sensitivity, but show large uncertainty in carbon cycle feedbacks. A key step of reducing this uncertainty is to identify the processes that govern carbon-climate and carbon-concentration feedbacks driven by changes in terrestrial carbon stocks. Are these changing carbon stocks driven by changes to inputs, or changes…
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In the News: Sébastien Biraud led an ARM-ACME V team through a 16-week airborne campaign to collect data over the tundra of Alaska’s North Slope. The team flew 38 flights, just 500 feet above ground, from June 1 to September 15, using a Gulfstream-159 (G-1) research aircraft from the ARM Aerial Facility. Most flights went over…
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Charlie Koven, scientist in Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, discusses newly published research results in LBNL’s News Center today. As global warming causes soil temperatures to increase, some of the billions of tons of carbon frozen in Arctic permafrost will will be released into the atmosphere, and accelerate climate change. This is a big unknown. Now there’s a…
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