The Climate Sciences Department has core competency in operating field observatories and undertaking observations and ecosystem manipulation experiments to study soil biogeochemistry, vegetation dynamics, and tropical, boreal, and sub-Arctic ecology. Department members are experienced in the collection and interpretation of eddy covariance measurements, tower and aircraft observations, and isotopic measurements of CO2, CH4, CO, 13C,…
Climate Sciences
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Read MoreMeasuring and Modeling the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
Scientists operate field observatories and undertake observations and ecosystem manipulation experiments.
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Read MoreModeling Climate Change and Climate Change Solutions
Scientists develop predictive models that reveal the complex processes shaping and controlling the planet.
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Read MoreSimulating Clouds, Rain, and the Water Cycle
Knowledge in cloud and convective dynamics are incorporated into DOE’s Earth System Models.
Overview
The Climate Sciences Department is the newest Earth and Environmental Sciences Area’s Department, founded in April 2007, and now has more than 100 scientific staff members. Through the Department’s ongoing contributions toward DOE’s strategic mission, and its success in attracting top talent pursuing tightly focused research goals, Berkeley Lab is recognized as one of the U.S. DOE’s National Laboratories (see FY2015 DOE Strategic Plan) with core competency in Climate Change Science.
The Department’s research capabilities lie in three primary areas:
- Modeling climate change and climate change solutions
- Simulating clouds, rain, and the water cycle
- Measuring and modeling the terrestrial carbon cycle.
Core Capabilities
Modeling Climate Change and Climate Change Solutions
Scientists in the Climate Sciences Department are experts in developing predictive models that reveal the complex processes shaping and controlling the planet. Their scientific modeling expertise includes the ability to perform multiscale simulations of abrupt and extreme climate change through development, deployment, and diagnosis of new model frameworks. The Department is actively developing the first…
Simulating Clouds, Rain, and the Water Cycle
Departmental scientists have expertise in cloud and convective dynamics and the ability to incorporate that knowledge into DOE’s Earth System Models. Work includes studies of the energy available for triggering convection, the coupling between convection and its large-scale environment, and the transport of mass, momentum, aerosols, water vapor, and other chemical species in convection.
David Ackerly
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Sarahi Arriaga Ramirez
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Emily Bercos-Hickey
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Sébastien Biraud
Staff Scientist
Climate Sciences Department Head
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James K. Bishop
Senior Faculty Scientist
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Barbara Bomfim
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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William Ronald Boos
Faculty Scientist
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Smitha Buddhavarapu
Graduate Student Assistant
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Xitian Cai
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Cristina Castanha
Principal Research Associate
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Oriana Elizabeth Holtz Chafe
Research Associate
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Jeffrey Chambers
Faculty Scientist
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Wai-Yin Stephen Chan
Senior Scientific Engineering Associate
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Kuang-Yu Chang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Alexander Charn
Graduate Student Research Assistant
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John Chun Hong Chiang
Faculty Scientist
Housen Chu
Research Scientist
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William D. (Bill) Collins
Director, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division,
Director, Environmental Resilience Accelerator (Era),
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Yi Dai
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Sigrid Dengel
Scientific Engineering Associate
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Rebecca A. Dewhirst
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Alan V. Di Vittorio
Research Scientist
Junyan Ding
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Nicola Falco
Scientific Engineering Associate
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Daniel Feldman
Research Scientist
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Yanlei Feng
Graduate Student Research Assistant
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Inez Fung
Faculty Scientist
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Salil Goyal
Student Assistant
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Jennifer A. Holm
Research Scientist
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Huanping Huang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Hector Alejandro Inda Diaz
Graduate Student Research Assistant
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Kripa Akila Jagannathan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Andrew D. Jones
Research Scientist
Program Domain Lead for Earth Systems and Society
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Noel Keen
Software Developer
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Trevor Keenan
Faculty Scientist
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Ryan G. Knox
Software Developer
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Charles Dunbar Koven
Staff Scientist
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Lara Kueppers
Faculty Scientist
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Chaincy Kuo
Project Scientist
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Gregory Lemieux
Software Developer
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Xiangzhong (Remi) Luo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Zhou Lyu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Zelalem A. Mekonnen
Research Scientist
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Midhun (Mikey) Mohan
Graduate Student Research Assistant
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Andrew Moyes
Senior Scientific Engineering Associate
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Jessica Needham
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Robinson I. Negron-Juarez
Research Scientist
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Travis A. O’Brien
Visiting Faculty
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John Patrick O’Brien
Graduate Student Research Assistant
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Christina Marie Patricola
Research Scientist
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Rachel C. Porras
Senior Research Associate
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Thomas Lorin Powell
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Shaoyue (Emily) Qiu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Naama Raz-Yaseef
Project Scientist
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Ken Reichl
Affiliate
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Robert Rhew
Guest Faculty Scientist
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Alan Rhoades
Hydroclimate Uncertainty Postdoctoral Fellow
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William J. Riley
Senior Scientist
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Mark Risser
Research Scientist
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David Romps
Faculty Scientist
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Jennifer L. Soong
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Julia Szinai
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Jinyun Tang
Research Scientist
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Margaret S. Torn
Ecologist & Biogeochemist
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Pouya Vahmani
Research Scientist
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Ian N. Williams
Research Scientist
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Dong Kook Woo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Zexuan Xu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Da Yang
Faculty Scientist
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Yao Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Yang Zhou
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Qing Zhu
Research Scientist
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