William J. Riley - Earth and Environmental Sciences Area

Biography

Bill focuses on modeling terrestrial ecosystems and their interactions with climate and climate change. He has a varied educational background, including degrees in mechanical and aerospace engineering, physics, and civil and environmental engineering. His published work includes development, testing, and application of numerical models that represent soil microbial dynamics, effects of abiotic processes such as mineral surface interactions, nutrient competition between microbes and plants, watershed-scale hydrological and biogeochemical processes, and climate-scale carbon and nutrient cycle processes.

Awards

National Energy Research Super Computer (NERSC) Achievement Award for High Impact Science, 2016
American Western Universities Graduate Student Fellowship, 1996
Air and Waste Management Association Academic Scholarship, 1995
Air and Waste Management Association Academic Scholarship, 1987
Graduated Cum Laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1984
Tau Beta Pi - National Engineering Honor Society, 1981
Sigma Gamma Tau - National Aerospace Engineering Honor Society, 1981

Lecturer

Lecturer for the upper division class Climate Change Mitigation (CEE107), University of California, Berkeley, 2006
Lecturer for the upper division class Introduction to Environmental Engineering (CEE111), University of California, Berkeley, 2003
Lecturer for the graduate level class Air Quality Engineering (ENGR 866), San Francisco State University, 2001
Lecturer for the upper division class Elementary Fluid Mechanics (CEE100), University of California, Berkeley, 2000
Lecturer for the lower division class Introduction to Computer Programming for Scientists and Engineers (E77N), University of California, Berkeley, 1999
Lecturer for the upper division class Elementary Fluid Mechanics (CEE100), University of California, Berkeley, 1999
Lecturer for the upper division class Elementary Fluid Mechanics (CEE100), University of California, Berkeley, 1998

Professional Activities

External co-chair, NCAR Community Land Model Working Group, 2013–present
Co-Lead Land Modeling Group, DOE Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME), 2014–present
Senior Science co-Lead and Co-PI, BGC-Climate Interactions SFA, 2014–present
Co-PI and Land Modeling co-Lead, NGEE-Arctic, 2012–present
Co-PI, Climate Feedback Uncertainties, 2009–2014
Technical lead, Atmospheric Systems Research SFA, 2010 – 2014
Co-convener and Co-chair, AGU sessions: Advances in understanding how fine-scale spatial hydrological heterogeneity influences climate-scale biogeochemical dynamics and fluxes, Fall Meeting 2015. ILAMB Town Hall, Fall Meeting 2015. Advances in spatial scaling of hydrological and biogeochemical processes, Fall Meeting 2013. Mechanistic representations of the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition, Fall Meeting 2013. Integrating microbial processes into ecosystem models of carbon and nitrogen cycling, Fall Meeting 2012
Modeling Session Lead, SOM6, The Sixth International Workshop on Soil Organic Matter Stabilization and Destabilization, Kiawa Resort, SC, October 2014
Session Lead, Biogeochemical Feedbacks, DOE RGCM and CESM PI meeting, May 2014
Contributor, DOE workshop on designing “Climate Change Experiments in High-Latitude Ecosystems”
Organizing Committee, Complex Soil Systems Meeting, September 2014, Berkeley, CA