April 29, 2014
ESD’s Inez Fung was recently elected to membership in the highly prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The AAAS is made up of leaders in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, business, and public affairs.
Read MoreApril 16, 2014
Join ESD scientists Craig Ulrich, Tim Kneafsey, Yuxin Wu, Romy Chakraborty, and Neslihan Tas on April 24 for the Berkeley Lab “Hangout on Air.”
Read MoreApril 14, 2014
ESD’s Alan DiVittorio and others used an empirical tree-growth model to show that a power law distribution of event size is required to generate spatial clustering of mortality that is consistent with forest gap observations.
Read MoreApril 9, 2014
ESD’s Jeff Chambers work with the GOAmazon project is specifically designed to study the influence of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on plant physiology, and how they affect the forest ecosystem.
Read MoreMarch 5, 2014
Inez Fung led a U.S. team that partnered with the U.K. Royal Society in issuing a publication that distills climate change science, helping policymakers and the public make decisions toward mitigating climate change’s damaging effects.
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2014
Jeff Chambers is part of an international scientific team (from U.S.A., Brazil, and Germany) working on Green Ocean Amazon (GOAmazon), to study the intricacies of the natural state of the Amazon rainforest atmosphere and land systems.
Read MoreFebruary 24, 2014
At the annual NERSC User Group meeting, Bill Collins spoke on “Modeling the Changing Earth System: Prospects and Challenges,”--attracting one of the largest audiences at the event.
Read MoreDecember 16, 2013
ESD was well represented among Fiscal Year 2014 Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) award winners, as announced this week (12/16/2013) by the Berkeley Lab Directorate.
Read MoreDecember 11, 2013
At the AGU meeting this week in San Francisco, ESD participants in the AmeriFlux Project (including co-PI Margaret Torn) will be giving talks, sharing posters, and staffing ESD’s “Meet a Scientist”booth.
Read MoreNovember 27, 2013
ESD’s Daniel Coleman and Daniel Feldman explored acceleration of a radiation code used in creating simulated satellite observations of predicted climate-change scenarios, achieving a speedup of 25 times over present speeds.
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