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Committees

Members of the Area Council for Earth & Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) are photographed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in Berkeley, California, 03/07/2023.

The Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) committees, Division Representatives, and Lab-wide committees enable EESA and Berkeley Lab to make decisions, take action on, or report on subject matter critical to operational and scientific activities. If you would like more information or are interested in participating on discussions regarding the subject areas identified below, please feel free to contact the representative or member.

EESA Organized Committees and Councils

Area and Division Councils

The Earth and Environmental Sciences Area Council is composed of the Division Directors, all program domain leads, department heads, and operations manager. Additional invitees include operations leads, human resources, and the safety coordinator plus ad-hoc members. The council is chaired by the Associate Lab Director and meets twice a month, typically on Mondays.

Division Councils, which are held once a month, are chaired by the Division Director and includes the department heads, Division program domain leads, operations managers, human resources, and the safety coordinator plus ad-hoc members.

Earth & Environmental Sciences Area

  • Bill Collins, Chair
  • Newsha Ajami
  • Sebastien Biraud
  • Eoin Brodie
  • Orlando Casiano
  • Romy Chakraborty
  • Bill Collins
  • Don DePaolo
  • Peter Fiske
  • Vivi Fissekidou
  • Ben Gilbert
  • Andy Jones
  • Peter Lau
  • Peter Nico
  • Bill Riley
  • Jonny Rutqvist
  • Carl Steefel
  • Haiyan Teng
  • Margaret Torn
  • Charu Varadharajan
  • Yuxin Wu
Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division

    • Bill Riley, Chair
    • Sebastien Biraud
    • Eoin Brodie
    • Romy Chakraborty
    • Andy Jones
    • Gianna Marschmann
    • Haiyan Teng
    • Margaret Torn
    • Charu Varadharajan
    • Ken Williams
Energy Geosciences Division

  • Jens Birkholzer, Chair
  • Peter Nico
  • Newsha Ajami
  • David Alumbaugh
  • Bhavna Arora
  • Sebastien Biraud
  • Orlando Casiano
  • Romy Chakraborty
  • Sandy Chin
  • Kate Coldwell
  • Bill Collins
  • Julia Correa
  • Don DePaolo
  • Pat Dobson
  • Vivi Fissekidou
  • Ben Gilbert
  • Tim Kneafsey
  • Peter Lau
  • Dave McCallen
  • Curt Oldenburg
  • Christina Procopiou
  • Bill Riley
  • Jonny Rutqvist
  • Carl Steefel
  • Charu Varadharajan
  • Michael Whittaker
  • Yuxin Wu
  • LianGe Zheng

Area Safety Committee

  • Vivi Fissekidou (Chair)
  • See all Committee Members

Area Staff Committee

  • Carl Steefel (Chair)
  • Eoin Brodie
  • Yves Guglielmi
  • Ken Williams
  • Jonny Rutqvist
  • Margaret Torn

Awards Committee

  • Ken Williams (Co-Chair, CESD Rep and CESD Representative to the Lab Director’s Recognition Committee)
  • Peter Nico (Co-Chair, EGD Rep and EGD Representative to the Lab Director’s Recognition Committee)
  • Newsha Ajami
  • Nick Bouskill
  • Charles Koven
  • Ben Gilbert
  • Baptiste Dafflon
  • Boris Faybishenko
  • Julia Correa
  • Orlando Casiano
  • Melanie Kincaid, Administrative Liaison

Distinguished Scientists Seminar Series Committee

The Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series Committee invites eminent individuals from various disciplines in the scientific community whose research is outstanding, interdisciplinary, and of broad interest to strategic initiatives in the earth sciences to present their research at Berkeley Lab.

  • Nick Bouskill (Chair)
  • Bhavna Arora
  • Jennifer Holm
  • Matthias Sprenger
  • Bridgette Hall (Administrative Liaison)

 


Early Career Development Grants (ECDG) Committee

The Earth and Environmental Sciences Early Career Development Grants (ECDG) Committee is composed of a representative from each of the five departments. The committee is charged with managing the ECDG program. The intent of the ECDG is to provide an opportunity for early career, scientific staff to develop new concepts, tools, and approaches with the potential to complement and/or enhance existing EESA research programs, lead to or make progress on new EESA research directions, or to lay the foundation for future proposals. These projects are envisioned to be ‘seed’ projects that can be completed within 1-2 years. The ECDG committee will evaluate the projects and may request short presentations by candidates whose proposals are under consideration for funding. The committee meets annually.

  • Jens Birkholzer (Chair)
  • Sebastien Biraud
  • Romy Chakraborty
  • Jonny Rutqvist
  • Carl Steefel
  • Yuxin Wu

EESA Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accountability (IDEA) Executive Committee

  • Kate Coldwell
  • Jens Birkholzer
  • Sharon Borglin
  • Christin Buechner
  • Vivi Fissekidou
  • Nieves (Yingying) Kooyman
  • Mohammed Ombadi
  • Christina Procopiou
  • Mark Risser
  • Jing Tao
  • Helen Weirbach

 


EESA K-12 STEM Outreach Liaisons

Berkeley Lab offers a dynamic range of K-12 STEM outreach and educational programs. These programs exist to excite young people about the expansive world of STEM, engage students in activities that will strengthen their STEM identity, and increase the number of students from underrepresented groups that pursue a STEM major/career. If you are interested to volunteer, please contact one of our EESA K-12 STEM Outreach Liaisons who can help coordinate your volunteer efforts with Berkeley Lab’s K-12 program office.

  • TBD
  • Harrison Lisabeth

Get to Know Your Postdoc Seminar Series Committee

The Earth & Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) Get to Know Your Postdoc Seminar Series (GTKYPD) is a monthly seminar series that provides EESA postdocs opportunities to showcase their research to the broader EESA community, to enable networking with researchers across EESA disciplines, and to foster stronger postdoc ties. The seminar series was originally started by the Energy Geosciences Division in 2018, and through its success, expanded to the larger area in 2019.

  • Michelle Newcomer, (Chair)
  • Sandy Chin (Operations liaison)

GMF Committee

Within the Department of Energy national laboratory system, the Geosciences Measurement Facility (GMF) is singularly capable of designing, building, testing, and deploying customized Earth and environmental science instrumentation. GMF engineers, scientists, and machinists work alongside their scientific research partners within GMF’s specialized fabrication and testing facilities at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at field observatory sites worldwide. Through this partnering, GMF brings to life custom solutions that push the frontier of Earth science discovery.

  • Yves Guglielmi (Chair)
  • David Alumbaugh
  • Sébastien Biraud
  • Eoin Brodie
  • Michelle Newcomer
  • Michelle Robertson
  • Charuleka Varadharajan
  • Yuxin Wu

Lab-wide Committee and Council Representatives

Area Deputy Working Group (ADWG) – Orlando Casiano

Communications Council – Christina Procopiou

Conflict of Interest (COI) Advisory Committee – Boris Faybishenko

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accountability (IDEA) Chairs Council – Nieves (Yingying) Kooyman & Vassiliki (Vivi) Fissekidou (Area Representatives)

Division Business Council (DBC) – Peter Lau and Orlando Casiano

Lab Staff Committee (LSC) – Carl Steefel (EGD) & Ken Williams (CESD)

Laboratory Awards Committee – Peter Nico (EGD) & Ken Williams (CESD)

Library Committee – John Christensen

Property Management – Bridgette Hall

Safety Advisory Committee (SAC) – Neslihan Tas

Scientific IT Advisory Committee – Charuleka Varadharajan

Strategic Partnerships and Intellectual Property Advisory Committee (SPIPAC) – Peter Fiske

Travel Liaison Committee (TLC) – Bridgette Hall

Women Scientists and Engineers Council (WSEC) – Sharon Borglin (EGD) & Shi Wang (CESD)


Berkeley Lab Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

Asian Pacific Islander – Carol Chien (Co-Chair)

Early Career Research Group – Mengsu Hu (EESA Representative)

Lambda Alliance – TBD


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