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Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division

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    The Earth and Environmental Sciences Area relies on individual contributions, strong partnerships, and teamwork to build scientific and operational excellence.

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    Our Scientific Mission in the 21st Century

    EESA Scientists are developing new, innovative approaches and scientific understanding relevant to both energy and the future environment.

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Our Mission

To develop the foundational knowledge and capabilities needed to understand, predict, and advance stewardship of Earth’s Climate and Ecosystems.

Our Vision

A future where society can make informed decisions about the sustainable use of our planet’s resources based on advanced knowledge of the integrated Earth system.

 

Program Domains

Setting up a portable eddy-covariance system to measure carbon and water flux in the San Francisco Delta. Portable solar panels provide power.

Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions

To advance understanding of dynamic biosphere-atmosphere interactions involving greenhouse gases, water and energy, such as respiration, photosynthesis, and ecosystem carbon storage.

Climate & Atmosphere Processes

Climate and Atmosphere Processes scientists study the processes that drive variability and change in the atmosphere and broader climate system. They develop modeling tools to predict these changes at different time and space scales.

Earth Systems and Society

Our mission is to provide decision-relevant insight at the interface of human and natural systems to support resiliency of energy, water, agriculture, and built environments in the face of global and regional change.

Environmental & Biological Systems Science

Develop a predictive understanding of environmental processes and microbial metabolic diversity that mediate biogeochemical cycles, and develop robust environmental solutions.

Setting up a portable eddy-covariance system to measure carbon and water flux in the San Francisco Delta. Portable solar panels provide power.

Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions

To advance understanding of dynamic biosphere-atmosphere interactions involving greenhouse gases, water and energy, such as respiration, photosynthesis, and ecosystem carbon storage.

Climate & Atmosphere Processes

Climate and Atmosphere Processes scientists study the processes that drive variability and change in the atmosphere and broader climate system. They develop modeling tools to predict these changes at different time and space scales.

Earth Systems and Society

Our mission is to provide decision-relevant insight at the interface of human and natural systems to support resiliency of energy, water, agriculture, and built environments in the face of global and regional change.

Environmental & Biological Systems Science

Develop a predictive understanding of environmental processes and microbial metabolic diversity that mediate biogeochemical cycles, and develop robust environmental solutions.

David Ackerly

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-643-6341
[email protected]

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Mechanical Faculty Scientific Engineer

Phone: 510-643-5969
[email protected]

Jillian Banfield

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-642-9488
[email protected]

Emily Bercos-Hickey

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-5983
[email protected]

Markus Bill

Senior Scientific Engineering Associate

Phone: 510-486-5659
Fax: 510-486-5496
[email protected]

Sebastien Biraud - portrait

Sébastien Biraud

Staff Scientist

Climate Sciences Department Head

Phone: 510-486-6084
[email protected]

James K. Bishop

Senior Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-642-6110
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Barbara Bomfim

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 530-220-3291
[email protected]

William Ronald Boos

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-495-2407
[email protected]

Nicholas J. Bouskill

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7490
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Hanna Breunig

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-4046
[email protected]

Eoin Brodie

Microbiologist, Senior Scientist

Deputy Director, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division

Lead, Environmental & Biological Systems Sciences Program Domain

Phone: 510-486-6584
Fax: 510-486-7152
[email protected]

Carlotta Brunetti

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-4093
[email protected]

Christin Buechner

Program Operations Analyst

Phone: 510-495-2466
[email protected]

Cristina Castanha

Principal Research Associate

Phone: 510-486-7500
[email protected]

Stephany Chacon

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6899
Fax: 510-486-4773
[email protected]

Oriana Elizabeth Holtz Chafe

Research Associate

Phone: 510-505-4497
[email protected]

Romy Chakraborty

Ecology Department Head

Staff Scientist

Phone: 510-486-4091
Fax: 510-486-7152
[email protected]

Jeffrey Chambers

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-495-2932
[email protected]

Wai-Yin Stephen Chan

Senior Scientific Engineering Associate

Phone: 510-486-4194
[email protected]

Kuang-Yu Chang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-8141
[email protected]

John Chun Hong Chiang

Faculty Scientist

[email protected]

Hee Jung Cho

Graduate Student Research Assistant

Phone: 510-859-6034
[email protected]

Chunwei Chou

Research Scientist

[email protected]

Housen Chu

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-6138
[email protected]

William D. (Bill) Collins

Director, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division,

Director, Environmental Resilience Accelerator (Era),

Senior Scientist

Phone: 510-495-2407
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Mark Conrad

Isotopic Geochemist & Geologist

Staff Scientist

Phone: 510-486-6141
Fax: 510-486-5496
[email protected]

Baptiste Dafflon

Staff Scientist

Phone: 510-486-4735
[email protected]

Yi Dai

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-495-8048
[email protected]

Sigrid Dengel

Scientific Engineering Associate

Phone: 510-486-4978
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Rebecca A. Dewhirst

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-495-8231
[email protected]

Alan V. Di Vittorio

Research Scientist

[email protected]

Junyan Ding

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6724
[email protected]

Ricardo Jorge Eloy Alves

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6180
[email protected]

Nicola Falco

Senior Scientific Engineering Associate

Phone: 510-486-4703
[email protected]

Daniel Feldman

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-495-2171
Fax: 510-486-7775
[email protected]

Yanlei Feng

Graduate Student Research Assistant

Phone: 510-495-2932
[email protected]

Mary Firestone

Mary Firestone

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-642-3677
[email protected]

Patricia M. Fox

Senior Scientific Engineering Associate

Phone: 510-495-2037
[email protected]

Inez Fung

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-643-9367
[email protected]

Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi

Project Scientist

Phone: 609-865-5428
[email protected]

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Sara Gushgari-Doyle

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 510-486-4091
[email protected]

Zhao Hao

Principal Scientific Engineering Associate

Phone: 510-486-7335
[email protected]

Sara Hefty

Administrator to the Division Director

Phone: 510-486-4271
[email protected]

Jennifer A. Holm

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-495-8083
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Huanping Huang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-5983
[email protected]

Hector Alejandro Inda Diaz

Graduate Student Research Assistant

Phone: 510-495-8047
[email protected]

Kripa Akila Jagannathan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 415-335-5834
[email protected]

Kolby Jeremiah Jardine

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-495-8231
[email protected]

Andrew D. Jones

Staff Scientist

Program Domain Lead for Earth Systems and Society

Phone: 510-486-5114
[email protected]

Ulas Karaoz

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-4118
[email protected]

Noel Keen

Software Developer

Phone: 510-486-5140
[email protected]

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Trevor Keenan

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5537
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Ryan G. Knox

Software Developer

Phone: 510-495-2153
[email protected]

Charles Dunbar Koven

Staff Scientist

Phone: 510-486-6724
[email protected]

Lara Kueppers

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5813
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Chaincy Kuo

Project Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7939
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Jack Lamb

Student Assistant

Phone: 925-951-7768
[email protected]

Gregory Lemieux

Software Developer

Phone: 510-486-5049
[email protected]

Philip E. Long

Guest Scientist
Deputy Lead, Sustainable Systems Science Focus Area

Affiliate

Phone: 509-531-2987
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Xiangzhong (Remi) Luo

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-384-6606
[email protected]

Gianna Marschmann

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6899
[email protected]

Portrait Zelalem Mekonnen

Zelalem A. Mekonnen

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7072
[email protected]

Lin Meng

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 510-495-2932
[email protected]

Midhun (Mikey) Mohan

Graduate Student Research Assistant

Phone: 510-345-7683
[email protected]

Andrew Moyes

Senior Scientific Engineering Associate

Phone: 510-486-6246
[email protected]

Niklas Mundhenk

Senior Research Associate

[email protected]

Hannah Naughton

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6584
[email protected]

Jessica Needham

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6724
[email protected]

Robinson I. Negron-Juarez

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7690
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Michelle Newcomer

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7057
[email protected]

Noele Norris

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 510-486-6584
[email protected]

Travis A. O’Brien

Visiting Faculty

Phone: 812-269-2051
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Ulysse Pasquier

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 510-486-5128
[email protected]

Elaine Pegoraro

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 407-412-8881
[email protected]

John E. Peterson

Principal Scientific Engineering Associate

Phone: 510-486-4267
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Rachel C. Porras

Senior Research Associate

Phone: 510-495-2226
[email protected]

Thomas Lorin Powell

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-5532
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Shaoyue (Emily) Qiu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 701-740-8816
[email protected]

Nigel William Trevelyan Quinn

HydroEcological Engineering Advanced Decision Support (HEADS)

Group Leader, Staff Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7056
Fax: 510-486-7152
[email protected]

Naama Raz-Yaseef

Project Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5937
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Ken Reichl

Affiliate

Phone: 805-813-1488
[email protected]

Robert Rhew

Guest Faculty Scientist

Affiliate

Phone: 510-643-6984
[email protected]

Alan Rhoades

Hydroclimate Research Scientist

Phone: 530-210-8344
[email protected]

William J. Riley

Senior Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5036
Fax: 510-486-7070
[email protected]

Mark Risser

Mark Risser

Research Scientist

Phone: 330-201-1857
[email protected]

David Romps

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7175
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Savannah Sturla

Student Assistant

Phone: 510-495-2038
[email protected]

Whendee L. Silver

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-486-6223
[email protected]

Guillem Sole-Mari

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 510-631-7090
[email protected]

Florian A. Soom

Scientific Engineering Associate

Phone: 510-486-4788
[email protected]

Jennifer L. Soong

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 415-652-4085
[email protected]

Patrick Oliver Sorensen

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-4390
[email protected]

Matthias Sprenger

Earth Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5266
[email protected]

Julia Szinai

Graduate Student Research Assistant

[email protected]

Jinyun Tang

Staff Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5792
Fax: 510-486-7070
[email protected]

Neslihan Tas

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5538
Fax: 510-486-7152
[email protected]

Margaret Torn

Margaret S. Torn

Ecologist & Biogeochemist

Senior Scientist

Phone: 510-495-2223
Fax: 510-486-7775
[email protected]

Sebastian Uhlemann

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5631
[email protected]

Evan S. Um

Project Scientist

Phone: 510-495-2172
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Pouya Vahmani

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5128
[email protected]

Haruko Murakami Wainwright

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-495-2038
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Shi Wang

Principal Research Associate

Phone: 510-495-2657
[email protected]bl.gov

Stijn Wielandt

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-4274
[email protected]

Kenneth H. Williams

Staff Geological Scientist

Environmental Remediation and Water Resources Program Lead

Phone: 510-701-1089
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Ian N. Williams

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-495-8048
[email protected]

Dong Kook Woo

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-5036
[email protected]

Todd J. Wood

Principal Scientific Engineering Associate

Phone: 510-332-9473
[email protected]

Yuxin Wu

Geophysics Department Head,

Staff Scientist

Phone: 510-486-4793
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Xiaoqin Wu

Project Scientist

Phone: 510-486-7515
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Zexuan Xu

Zexuan Xu

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5128
[email protected]

Qina Yan

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 779-456-0985
[email protected]

Da Yang

Faculty Scientist

Phone: 510-486-5618
[email protected]

Mon Oo Yee

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 510-486-4091
[email protected]

Yao Zhang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

[email protected]

Likun Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Phone: 814-880-8824
[email protected]

Jizhong Zhou

Visiting Faculty

Phone: 510-486-6223
[email protected]

Yang Zhou

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Phone: 631-317-9566
[email protected]

Qing Zhu

Research Scientist

Phone: 510-486-6546
Fax: 510-486-5686
[email protected]

Division Contacts

William D. (Bill) Collins
Director, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division,
Director, Environmental Resilience Accelerator (Era),
Senior Scientist

Kim Sopher
Program Manager for the Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division

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