Biography
Associate Laboratory Director & Sr. Scientist, Berkeley Lab
Adjunct Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
As the Associate Lab Director for Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Laboratory, Dr. Susan Hubbard leads a premier group of ~500 staff and affiliates that has a significant research portfolio in climate science, terrestrial ecosystem science, environmental and biological system science, fundamental geoscience, and subsurface energy geosciences. Research within this Area of Berkeley Lab is tackling some of the most pressing environmental and subsurface energy challenges of the 21st Century. Dr. Hubbard is also an Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Dr. Hubbard earned her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, and prior to joining Berkeley Lab, she was a geologist at the US Geological Survey and a geophysicist in industry.
As a Senior Scientist at Berkeley Laboratory, Dr. Hubbard’s research focuses on quantifying how terrestrial environments function, with a particular emphasis on the development of geophysical approaches to provide new insights about processes relevant to contaminant remediation, carbon cycling, water resources, and subsurface energy systems. She is particularly recognized for her contributions to hydrogeophysics. She leads the DOE Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area project and is a co-PI of the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE-Arctic).
Susan Hubbard has been honored by the scientific community with several awards, including: as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), as a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S), Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Fellow of Geological Society of America (GSA), the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Frank Frischknecht Award for leadership and innovation in near-surface geophysics, the GSA Birdsall Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer Award, Distinguished Alumni of UC Berkeley, and the SEG Harold Mooney Award for Near Surface Geophysics. She has also served widely on many scientific committees, advisory boards and editorial boards, including her current role on the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). She has recently led or contributed to several initiatives, including Berkeley Lab’s Water-Energy and Microbes-to-Biomes initiatives, as well as national initiatives, such as the DOE Subsurface Crosscut (SubTER).
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