Last week on March 22, the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) announced the winners of the 2016 High Performance Computing (HPC) Achievement Awards during the annual NERSC Users Group meeting at Berkeley Lab.

Charles D. Koven

William Riley
Highlights of the scientists work are featured in the NERSC Science News, with reported research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015).

Zonal-mean C fluxes for transient, fully‐forced, coupled C-N run with decomposable deep C. Net high latitude fluxes associated with permafrost thaw persist long after the thaw has occurred and are on same order as tropical C uptake due to CO₂ fertilization and changing land‐use; this represents an important aspect of the global terrestrial carbon cycle response to CO₂ emissions.
Related Publication Citation:
Koven, C. D., Lawrence, D. M., & Riley, W. J. (2015). Permafrost carbon-climate feedback is sensitive to deep soil carbon decomposability but not deep soil nitrogen dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(12), 3752-3757. doi:10.1073/pnas.1415123112