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Global Methane Emissions Soaring, But How Much Was Due to Wetlands?

August 20, 2020

Last month, an international team of scientists, including Berkeley Lab’s William Riley and Qing Zhu, published an update on the global methane budget as part of the Global Carbon Project. They estimated annual global methane emissions at nearly 570 million tons for the 2008 to 2017 decade, which is 5% higher than emissions recorded for the early 2000s and the equivalent of 189 million more cars on the world’s roads.

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Global Flux Dataset Enhanced for Broader Access, Ease of Use

July 30, 2020

Scientists who work to address  challenges  ranging from vegetation productivity under increasing temperatures to the impact of future drought at continental scale need to rely on data that can connect the biology taking place on land with changes in atmospheric concentrations of water and trace gases like carbon dioxide. Climate and ecosystem modelers, soil microbiologists,…

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Subtropical Weather Pattern Estimated to Increase Long-Term Rainfall Variability in California by 50%

July 29, 2020

A research team led by Berkeley Lab has determined that a tropical weather phenomenon impacting the West Coast will dramatically alter California rainfall by century’s end, leaving the state to contend with a 50% increase in winter rainfall variability by the year 2100. The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a poorly understood rainfall pattern that covers…

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Reassessing the Global Dataset of Wave Climate Projections

June 29, 2020

This article was written by Jennifer Huber and originally appeared on the website of Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences.    Wind-generated ocean waves — “wind waves” — can be major disruptors of coastal communities, marine ecosystems, offshore industries, and shipping, causing considerable environmental, geophysical, and socioeconomic impacts across the globe. Large waves during past winter storms,…

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EESA Participates In A Discussion of “Equity Reset”

June 25, 2020

On Wednesday, June 24, more than 40 members of EESA attended a special brownbag presentation on racial equity by Aditi Chakravarty of Berkeley Lab’s Learning and Organizational Development group. The event presented an opportunity to move forward with discussions begun at the June 15 EESA Town Hall, during which EESA Associate Laboratory Director Susan Hubbard…

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EESA Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Awards

June 25, 2020

Three scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science to receive significant funding for research through its Early Career Research Program (ECRP). In addition, three faculty scientists with joint appointments at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley will receive ECRP funding through their UC…

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Post Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Energy Geosciences Division

Smart Farms of the Future: Making Bioenergy Crops More Environmentally Friendly

June 19, 2020

In a project led by Arva Intelligence, Berkeley Lab scientists will monitor carbon emissions and other indicators at five commercial farms in California and Arkansas. Here Berkeley Lab scientist Craig Ulrich collects geophysical measurements. (Credit: Jay McEntire/Arva Intelligence) Farmers have enough worries – between bad weather, rising costs, and shifting market demands – without having to…

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The World’s Forests Are Growing Younger

June 10, 2020

  Researchers from Berkeley Lab and 20 other institutions have found that land use and atmospheric changes are altering forest structure around the world, resulting in fewer of the mature trees that are better at storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The scientists evaluated data and observations from more than 160 previous studies designed to…

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EESA Welcomes Third Cohort of CSUEB Interns

May 28, 2020

A Berkeley Lab internship program involving master’s-level students from the nation’s fifth most diverse university will enter its third year in June. So far six students have completed the program, which brings talented students from Cal State University East Bay (CSUEB) in Hayward to work on research projects with scientists in Berkeley Lab’s EESA. A…

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