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.
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Area Safety Committee
- Vivi Fissekidou (Chair)
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Area Staff Committee
Awards Committee
- Bill Riley (Co-Chair and Representative to the Lab Director’s Recognition Committee)
- Lisa Kelly (Co-Chair)
- Tim Kneafsey (Representative to the Lab Director’s Recognition Committee)
- Bhavna Arora
- Nick Bouskill
- Charles Koven
- Nigel Quinn
- Don Vasco
- LianGe Zheng
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.
- Bhavna Arora
- Nick Bouskill (Chair)
- Hang Deng
- Jennifer Holm
- 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.
EESA IDEA Committee
- Susan Hubbard (Chair)
- Tracy Bigelow
- Jens Birkholzer
- Romy Chakraborty
- Sandy Chin
- Bill Collins
- Hang Deng
- Ali Douraghy
- Vivi Fissekidou
- Preston Jordan
- Lisa Kelly
- Chaincy Kuo
- Neslihan Tas
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.
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.
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.
Virtual Social Committee (Liaisons)
A google group to assist in facilitating virtual social events within the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area.
Do you want to socialize with the other great people involved in Earth and Environmental Sciences at LBNL? This list is the place for you. It includes posts about social events currently taking place virtually, but once we open back up, we will hold great outdoor activities, food-centric events, happy hours, and other social events of interest; if an event is posted, please feel welcome to attend! Also feel free to post an event to the list ([email protected]), or ask a liaison if they might coordinate with you. The liaisons are here to help ensure that we have a successful and rich social calendar for the Area.
Want to join this group? Opt-in at this LINK
Lab-wide Committee and Council Representatives
Conflict of Interest (COI) Advisory Committee – Boris Faybishenko
Communications Council – Ali Douraghy
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Advisory Board – Romy Chakraborty & Preston Jordan
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Council – Vivi Fissekidou & Neslihan Tas (Area Representatives)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Leadership Council – William Collins
Division Business Council (DBC) – Peter Lau and Lisa Kelly
Early Career Programs – Peter Fiske
Lab Staff Committee (LSC) – Curt Oldenburg (EGD) & William Riley (CESD)
Laboratory Support Advisory Committee (LSAC) – Lisa Kelly (Area and EGD) & Eoin Brodie (CESD)
Laboratory Awards Committee – Tim Kneafsey (EGD) & William Riley (CESD)
Library Committee – John Christensen
Property Management – Bridgette Hall
Safety Advisory Committee (SAC) – John Christensen
Scientific IT Advisory Committee – Charuleka Varadharajan
Travel Liaison Committee (TLC) – Bridgette Hall
Women Scientists and Engineers Council (WSEC) – Hang Deng (EGD) & Chaincy Kuo (CESD)
Berkeley Lab Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
Women Scientists & Engineers Council – Susan Hubbard (Executive Co-Sponsor) & Hang Deng (Subcommittee Chair)
Asian Pacific Islander – Carol Chien (Co-Chair)
Early Career Research Group – Mengsu Hu (EESA Representative)