Getting to Net Zero Speaker: Margaret Torn, EESA Senior Scientist CESD Senior Scientist Margaret Torn co-authored the first detailed, peer-reviewed study of how to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 – by rebuilding U.S. energy infrastructure to run primarily on renewable energy, at a net cost of about $1 per person per day. Margaret will discuss the…
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Congratulations to Sébastien Biraud, who is the new Climate Department Head for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), effective November 1, 2015. Sebastien will do a terrific job of leading the Department, and contributing to the strategic evolution of both EESA and the Climate Department. Sébastien has been at LBNL since 2003. His research focuses…
Read MoreScientists don’t know what will happen to soil carbon in response to climate change. It could enter the atmosphere as CO2, a greenhouse gas, and further accelerate climate change. But how much — and when — remains a mystery.
Read MoreAutonomous Carbon Explorers, robotic floats devised by ESD's Jim Bishop descend a kilometer beneath the surface and then return to report their findings via satellite.
Read MoreLauren Sommer of KQED's QUEST program sat down with ESD's Bill Collins to learn about how faster supercomputers will help scientists run climate simulations.
Read MoreSource: LBNL TABL Members of the Ocean Biogeochemical Processes Group in the Earth Sciences Division, including Chief Scientist Jim Bishop, Todd Wood, and Alex Morales, plus guest students Gabrielle Weiss, Ralph Till, and Nolan Wong, set sail from San Diego last Saturday aboard the R/V New Horizon to deploy a second generation of Carbon Flux…
Read MoreSource: LBNL TABL Jeff Chambers of the Earth Sciences Division is leading an effort to develop computer models that show how the destruction of forest trees and ecosystems by hurricanes can be a source of carbon emissions with a significant adverse impact on the carbon cycle. Hurricane Katrina, for example, detroyed roughly 320 million trees,…
Read MoreSource: LBNL TABL Launched for the first time at Ocean Station PAPA in the North Pacific on April 10, 2001, two Carbon Explorer floats designed by Jim Bishop of the Earth Sciences Division sampled the fate of carbon in the ocean depths, then returned to the surface to report by satellite, soon making the very…
Read MorePeter Nico The amount of carbon residing in world soils at any moment is greater than all the carbon in the atmosphere and biosphere (living things) combined. In fact, among the fast cycling global carbon reservoirs, soil is exceeded in quantitative importance only by the oceans. The large amount of carbon in soils makes understanding…
Read MoreSource: UC Newsroom Stacy Jackson is one of 3 UC students awarded the 2010 Switzer Fellowship, given to outstanding environmental scholars who are pursuing a graduate degree in a variety of ecological disciplines. Stacy works in our Climate Sciences Department. Read More »
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