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Portrait Zelalem Mekonnen

Zelalem A. Mekonnen

Research Scientist

Building 074A, Room 0106

Phone: 510-486-7072

zmekonnen@lbl.gov

Curriculum Vitae

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Biography

My primary research interest is terrestrial ecosystem modeling at site, regional and global scales.

I am particularly interested in studying soil-plant-atmosphere interactions to understand ecosystem responses to changes in environmental conditions. My current project include examining the underlying ecosystem processes that control changes in plant functional types and associated feedbacks to the climate system, studying the effects of warming, plant and microbial water stress, and disturbance (e.g. fire) on nutrient cycling and land-atmosphere carbon and energy exchanges under past and future climates.

Research Interests

Process based ecosystem modeling, soil-plant-atmosphere interactions, examining changes in permafrost and landscape hydrology, understanding the impacts of changes in climates and disturbance on nutrient cycling and land-atmosphere carbon and energy exchanges, studying changes in ecosystem productivity using eddy covariance flux towers and remote sensing

Education

  • PhD, University of Alberta, 2015
  • MSc, Addis Ababa University, 2007
  • BSc, Hawassa University, 2004

Experience

  • Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2019-Present
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2016-2019
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta, 2015–2016
  • Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Alberta, 2011–2015
  • Geospatial Analyst, GIZ, 2009–2010

Awards

  • Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Doctoral Scholarship, 2014
  • ESRI Canada Young Scholar Award, 2012
  • ESRI Canada GIS Scholarship, 2011
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