EESA Research Scientist Michelle Newcomer, Senior Scientist Margaret Torn, and Associate Laboratory Director for EESA Susan Hubbard participated in last week’s AAAS Annual Meeting, February 13-16. Hubbard moderated a panel on wildfire hosted by the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). Organized by Sarah Brady and Teresa Feo of CCST, the panel featured the following experts: Frank Lake, United States Forest Service, Orleans, CA; Jackson Webster, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA; and Dave Winnacker, Moraga-Orinda Fire District, Moraga, CA. Their expertise is Incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Forest Management Practices; Effects of Wildfire on Water Quality and Drinking Water Treatment; and Implementation of New Technologies for Improved Emergency Wildfire Response. Newcomer participated in a DOE podcast, “The Future of Water and Wildfire” on DOE research into wildfires, water, and more. Torn gave a talk, “The large, deep, slow contributions of soils to future climate-ecosystem feedbacks,” on Sunday.
Michelle Newcomer, EESA research scientist, participated in a live recording of a podcast produced by the Department of Energy at the 2020 AAAS annual meeting last week in Seattle.
The Associate Laboratory Director for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab, Susan Hubbard, moderated a panel of experts who discussed leveraging science and technology to improve wildfire resilience at the 2020 AAAS Meeting, held February 13-16 in Seattle. © CCST
EESA Senior Scientist Margaret Torn gave a talk Sunday at AAAS 2020 related to the track, The Global Carbon Cycle: Implications for Life Beyond the 21st Century. Her talk explored how over centuries climate change will impact the role of soils in ecosystem fertility and response of soils to landscape evolution in a warmer world. © Forest M. Hoffman