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Carl Steefel Named 2019 American Geophysical Union Fellow

August 14, 2019

Carl Steefel, a senior scientist in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab, has been named by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as a 2019 AGU Fellow. Every year, the AGU Fellows program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to the Earth and Space sciences. Vetted by a committee of AGU Fellows, honorees…

EESA IDEA Working Groups Underway

January 28, 2020

To achieve identified scientific and workforce goals needed to propel the Area into an exciting future, EESA recognizes that inclusion, diversity, equity and accountability (IDEA) must be integrated into our conscience, culture, practices and processes. An EESA IDEA framework has been developed to meet this objective.Annual goals will be accomplished through six rotating, topic-based, action-oriented…

Chaincy Kuo and Hang Deng Represent EESA To Women Scientists and Engineers Council

January 27, 2020

The Women Scientists and Engineers Council (WSEC) at Berkeley Lab was founded in 2008. The council advocates for career development and work-life balance for women. Anyone (including men) who advocates for women in the sciences can become a member. Ongoing throughout the year, WSEC holds events and contributes to lab-wide efforts. Each division sends an official…

EESA Celebrates Strong Showing at AGU 2019 Fall Meeting

For earth scientists, the most wonderful time of the year is made even better with the American Geophysical Union’s annual fall meeting dominating the first week of every December. EESA scientists turned out in force for the 2019 conference, which was held in San Francisco for the first time since 2016 from Monday, December 9…

Climate Change Expected to Shift Location of East Asian Monsoons

November 25, 2019

Berkeley Lab climate scientists studied how the Hadley cell, a tropical air flow closely linked to monsoons, will change as the climate warms. (Credit: iStockphoto) More than a billion people in Asia depend on seasonal monsoons for their water needs. The Asian monsoon is closely linked to a planetary-scale tropical air flow which, according to a…