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William J. Riley

Director (Acting), Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division;

Senior Scientist

Building 084, Room 0334

M/S 74R316C

Phone: 510-486-5036

Fax: 510-486-7070

wjriley@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

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Biography

Bill Riley was appointed the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Director (Acting) effective December 1, 2022. 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.

Research Interests

Interactions between the soil, biosphere, and atmosphere that impact carbon and nutrient cycling, hydrological flows, leaching, and trace-gas fluxes important in climate change; environmental fluid mechanics and the interactions between fluid flows and biological processes that affect environmental quality; numerical modeling of coupled hydrological, biological, and atmospheric systems; use of carbon and oxygen isotopes in coupled hydrological and biological systems.

Education

  • Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
  • M.S. Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
  • M.S. Physics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hil, 1988
  • B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1984

Experience

  • Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division Director (Acting), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2022-Present
  • Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2016-Present
  • Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2012–2016
  • Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2000–2012
  • Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, 1998–2006
  • Postdoctoral Fellow with Pamela Matson, Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, 1996–1999
  • Graduate Research Assistant with William Nazaroff, University of California, Berkeley, and LBNL, 1993–1996
  • Physics Graduate Research Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986-1988

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
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