Jeffrey Chambers - Earth and Environmental Sciences Area

Biography

Jeffrey Q. Chambers is a Faculty Scientist in the Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab, and a Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley. His research is focused on terrestrial ecosystem ecology, forests and climate change, disturbance and recovery processes, and land-atmosphere interactions. Methods employed to address research questions include ecological and physiological field measurements, remote sensing analyses, and simulation modeling to codify knowledge and develop regional projections. He has more than 25 years of forest research experience, including current activities in the Puerto Rico, Panama, the Brazilian Amazon, and California.

Experience

Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Geography Department, 2013-Present
Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) - Earth Sciences Division (ESD), 2010-Present
Associate Professor, Tulane University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2009-2010
Co-Director, National Institute for Climatic Change Research (NICCR) Coastal Center, 2006-Present
Assistant Professor, Tulane University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2003-2009
Assistant Researcher II, University of California, Irvine, Earth System Science, 2002-2003
Research Faculty, National Institute of Amazon Research (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas na Amazônia – INPA), 1999-Present
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Irvine, Earth System Science, 1998-2003
Graduate Internship, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, 1997-1998
Research Assistant, University of California, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, CA, 1992-1998
Research Assistant, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Biogeochemical Cycles Group, Global Climate Research Division, 1992-1995

Collaborations & Affiliations

Collaborators: Sassan Saatchi (Caltech/JPL), Paul Moorcroft (Harvard), Dar Roberts (UC Santa Barbara), George Hurtt (Univ. of Maryland), Alon Angert (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Steve Frolking (Univ. of New Hampshire), Mark Powell (NOAA), Ashley Ballantyne (University of Colorado) Lee Dyer (Univ. of Nevada, Reno), Niro Higuchi (INPA, Manaus, Brazil), Bruce Nelson (INPA, Manaus,Brazil).
Thesis, Grad, and Post-Grad Advisors: John Melack (UC Santa Barbara) Josh Schimel (UC Santa Barbara), Jeff Amthor (DOE-LLNL), Susan Trumbore (UC Irvine).
Previous Advisees: RobinsonNegrón-Juárez (postdoc), Hongcheng Zeng (postdoc), Jeremy Fisher (postdoc), Thomas Shannon (postdoc), Angela Smilanich (Ph.D.), Tara Massad (Ph.D.), Theryn Henkel (Ph.D.), Sami Rifai (Ph.D.), Rebecca Hazen (Ph.D.), Elise Chapman (Masters).