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Sebastien Biraud - portrait

Sébastien Biraud

Staff Scientist

Climate Sciences Department Head

Building 084, Room 0155

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-6084

scbiraud@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education
  • Experience
  • Awards
  • Current Grants (PI or Co-PI)
  • Special Skills
  • Collaborators and Other Affliliates

Biography

Dr. Biraud leads the Climate Sciences Department in the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division (CESD). He is the Principal Investigator of the DOE-supported Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Carbon Project, Airborne Carbon Measurement Experiments (ARM-ACME). He is also the Technical Lead for the AmeriFlux Management Project, and the Principal Investigator for the US-ARM AmeriFlux site located in the U.S. Southern Great Plains.

Dr. Biraud is an internationally recognized expert in the field of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG) observations to support research on carbon cycle, satellites validation, and source attribution. His work relies heavily on the development of measurement capabilities to estimate carbon exchange between the land and the atmosphere. These measurements and analysis activities include: (1) developing eddy covariance systems; (2) building and testing continuous high-accuracy and high precision GHG observations system; (3) integration of GHG observation systems on aircrafts, towers, and UAS platforms; (4) publishing his work on GHG emissions estimates at local and regional scales.

Education

  • Ph.D., CEA/LSCE (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement), 2000 (Summa Cum Laude), Towards the Regionalization of Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases: Analysis of the Synoptic Variability at Mace Head Observatory, Ireland
  • M.S., University of Paris 7, France, 1995, Physical Methods in Remote Sensing
  • B.S., Physics, University of Paris 7, France, 1994

Experience

  • Climate Sciences Department Head, LBNL—Earth & Environmental Sciences Area, 2015-present
  • Staff Scientist, LBNL—Earth & Environmental Sciences Area, 2018-Present
  • Research Scientist, LBNL—Earth & Environmental Sciences Area, 2013-2018
  • Research Associate, LBNL—Earth Sciences Division, 2003-2013
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 2001-2003
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Galway, Ireland, 2000-2001
  • Ph.D., Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, 1997-2000
  • Research Engineer, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique/Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, 1996-1997
  • Research Engineer, Ecole Nationale Du Génie Rural, Des Eaux Et Des Forêts, 1995

Awards

  • Irish Environmental Protection Agency Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2000-2001
  • Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique Doctoral Fellowship, 1996-2000

Current Grants (PI or Co-PI)

  • SUMMATION project, 2019-2023
  • AmeriFlux Management Project, 2021-2025
  • ARM infrastructure, 2020-2021
  • Rice ’N Grits Project, 2020-2023

Special Skills

  • Computer skills: proficiency in programming (SHELL, PERL, C, FORTRAN, IDL, HTML)
  • Native language: FRENCH
  • Other languages:
    • ENGLISH (full working knowledge)
    • SPANISH (minimal working knowledge)
  • Hobbies: Flying (French private license), Scuba diving (divemaster)

Collaborators and Other Affliliates

  • Student and staff: Noah Amme (U. of Washigton), Jennie Bahramian (CSU-EB), Dave Billesbach (UNL), Stephen Chan (LBNL), Housen Chu (LBNL), Laura Cunnigham (UCB), Brian Curtis (LBNL), Steven Demartini (UCB), Sigrid Dengel (LBNL), Salil Goyal (UCB), Chad Hanson (OSU), Don Herman (UCB), Andrew Moyes (LBNL), Pascal Polonik (UCB, LBNL), Naama Raz-Yaseef (LBNL), Ken Reichl (LBNL), Eric Rubin (UCB), Jovan Tadic (LBNL).
  • Collaborators and co-authors: J. Abshire (NASA/GSFC), A. Angert (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), A. Turner (Harvard University). S. Basu (SRON), C. Bonfils (LLNL), P. Ciais (LSCE), R. Derwent (U.K. Met Office), D. Feldman (LBNL), M. Fischer (LBNL), M. Helbig (University of Montreal), F. Hopkins (UCR), L. Hu (NOAA/ESRL), M. Inoue (NIES), R. Jackson (Stanford University) D. Jacob (Harvard University), L. Kuai (JPL), S. Kulawik (NASA/JPL), A. Milller (Harvard Univiersity), C. Miller (NASA/JPL), S. Miller (Harvard University), W. McMillan (University of Maryland), Y. Miyamoto (NIES), M. Ramonet (LSCE), W. Riley (LBNL), B. Schmidt (PNNL), B. Schmid (PNNL), C. Still (Oregon State University), C. Sweeney (NOAA/ESRL), J. Tadic (Carnegie Institute for Science), P. Tans (NOAA/ESRL), M. Toomey (Harvard University), A. Turner (Harvard University), I. Williams (LBNL), S. Wharton (LLNL), S. Wofsy (Harvard University), D. Wunch (CalTech), L. Yurganov (University of Maryland).
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