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Committees

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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

  • Susan Hubbard, Chair
  • Sebastien Biraud
  • Jens Birkholzer
  • Eoin Brodie
  • Romy Chakraborty
  • Bill Collins
  • Don DePaolo
  • Ben Gilbert
  • Andy Jones
  • Lisa Kelly
  • Peter Nico
  • Jonny Rutqvist
  • Carl Steefel
  • Margaret Torn
  • Yuxin Wu
Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division

  • Bill Collins, Chair
  • Tracy Bigelow
  • Sebastien Biraud
  • Eoin Brodie
  • Romy Chakraborty
  • Vivi Fissekidou
  • Andy Jones
  • Michelle Newcomer
  • Jonny Rutqvist
  • Carl Steefel
  • Neslihan Tas
  • Margaret Torn
  • Ken Williams
  • Yuxin Wu
Energy Geosciences Division

  • Jens Birkholzer, Chair
  • Sebastien Biraud
  • Romy Chakraborty
  • Hang Deng
  • Don DePaolo
  • Pat Dobson
  • Ben Gilbert
  • Dave McCallen
  • Peter Nico
  • Curt Oldenburg
  • Jonny Rutqvist
  • Carl Steefel
  • Haruko Wainwright
  • Yuxin Wu
  • LianGe Zheng

Area Safety Committee

  • Vivi Fissekidou (Chair)
  • See all Committee Members

Area Staff Committee

  • Curtis Oldenburg (Chair)
  • Eoin Brodie
  • Yves Guglielmi
  • Bill Riley
  • Jonny Rutqvist
  • Carl Steefel
  • Margaret Torn

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.

  • Susan Hubbard (Chair)
  • Sebastien Biraud
  • Romy Chakraborty
  • Jonny Rutqvist
  • Carl Steefel
  • Yuxin Wu

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.

  • Chaincy Kuo
  • 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)
  • James Dennedy-Frank
  • Pei Li
  • Qina Yan
  • 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.

  • David Alumbaugh
  • Sébastien Biraud
  • Eoin Brodie
  • Yves Guglielmi
  • Michelle Newcomer
  • Veronica Rodriguez Tribaldos
  • Charuleka Varadharajan
  • Yuxin Wu

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

  • Emily Bercos-Hickey
  • Rebecca Dewhirst
  • Huanping Huang
  • Melanie Kincaid
  • Harry Lisabeth
  • Craig Ulrich

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)


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