This news release appeared first at newscenter.lbl.gov A new study finds that plants are photosynthesizing more in response to more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but nowhere near enough to remove all emissions. (Credit: baona/iStock) Because plants take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into food, forests and other similar ecosystems are considered…
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In recognition of her outstanding research during her PhD at the Iowa State University, Lin Meng, now a postdoctoral scholar with the NGEE-Tropics project in Berkeley Lab’s Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, has been awarded this year’s Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For her…
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EESA research scientist Michelle Newcomer co-chaired a November 15-16 workshop to help inform and catalyze the DOE Earth and Environmental System Sciences Division’s (EESSD) growing interests and approaches to addressing the scientific and societal challenge of enhancing predictive understanding of integrated mountain hydro-climate. For the purposes of this workshop, integrated mountain hydroclimate is defined as…
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This article appeared originally at newscenter.lbl.gov A model of the North American Regionally Refined Model grid showing the grid refinement that includes a 100-kilometer grid globally and 25 kilometers over North America. DOE’s Earth system model has been improved to create more realistic simulations of different ecosystem factors that are influenced by environmental changes. (Credit:…
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When a plant is beleaguered by drought, contaminated soils, or any other stressor, the earliest and best indicators are often not obvious in its leaves, or stems, flowers or fruit. For crops or houseplants, shrubs or grasses, the early-warning signs of stress are out of sight, out of mind in the last place anyone ever…
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This article has been adapted from its original publication at the University of Arizona website. It was authored by Daniel Stolte. The National Science Foundation has awarded $3.5 million to a team led by University of Arizona researchers to study how life prevails in barren landscapes, such as those disturbed by wildfires, volcanic eruptions or…
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EESA Research Scientist Erica Woodburn has initiated a new effort to investigate the impact of the Caldor Fire on the Cosumnes River Basin. The team, which involves EESA research scientist Michelle Newcomer and faculty scientist Jackie Peña, has already begun working to measure water quality and ash/sediment in collaboration with a local citizen science field…
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Saul Perlmutter and Inez Fung Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter and climate scientist Inez Fung, both scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have been appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the White House announced in September. Perlmutter, who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of the accelerating…
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EESA Staff Scientist Charlie Koven has been selected to receive the 2021 Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the world’s largest Earth and space science society. He will receive the award at a ceremony during the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting in December. Koven, who studies interactions between…
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Earth’s critical zone spans from the top of the tree canopy to the depths of the subsurface. Researchers across the world study instrumented critical zone observatories and equivalent watershed sites to examine hydrological fluxes, energy matter, and biogeochemical cycles for insights into how factors like land use and climate change are affecting Earth systems. Now…
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