Berkeley Lab Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA)

🌡️ 👨🔬 "Climate change isn’t our children’s and grandchildren’s problem. Significant things are happening now." - Michael Wehner of Berkeley Lab's Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Division in a recent National Geographic article. Learn more about the clear link between extreme weather and climate change: https://lnkd.in/gRXtMzuz

👩🔬🚰🔥 “We’re destabilizing water systems, and we don’t even know in what way and how.” - Newsha Ajami, EESA's Chief Strategy and Development Officer for Research in a recent The Washington Post article about wildfire's effect on drinking water. The #ParkFire has quickly become the fifth-largest wildfire in California history and is now 12 times the size of San Francisco. Learn more about how these fires contaminate drinking water and professionals can work together to better respond to this public health risk. https://wapo.st/4fsKKGY Berkeley Lab

🥾🌲 🌍 One thing about our scientists - they aren't afraid to get their hands dirty. At the Blodgett Forest Research Station, a University of California, Berkeley-owned forest dedicated to science, Berkeley Lab scientists are heating up plots of soil to study the complex relationship between climate change, soil CO2 emissions, and soil carbon storage. Their findings can help us better predict and understand changes in Earth's carbon cycle and its role in climate change. #soilcarbon #climatechange #soilscience

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! Join us at #AGU24 to learn about terrestrial ecosystems during a solar eclipse! ☀ 🌑 🌎 ☘ 💧 B091 - Shaded by the Moon: A Solar Eclipse Perspective on Ecosystems https://lnkd.in/gCu-f4UY This unique and innovative session invites researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to explore the implications of solar eclipses on ecosystems. We welcome contributions from multiple disciplines, including but not limited to geosciences, animal and plant ecology, atmospheric science, hydrology, and environmental sciences. The deadline for abstract submission is Wednesday, July 31st, 2024. Looking forward to your submissions! Conveners: Leila Hernandez Rodriguez, Berkeley Lab Manuel Helbig, Ph.D., Dalhousie University Jeffrey D Wood, University of Missouri Daniel Beverly, Indiana University Bloomington American Geophysical Union #AGU24 #eclipse #ecosystems #AmeriFlux #MexFlux #STEM #NASA #eesalbnl #Berkeleylab Berkeley Lab Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

🙌 Happy National Intern Day! We are forever grateful for the meaningful contributions of all our interns who have found their way to EESA, and we recognize the importance of giving students of all levels and backgrounds the chance to grow and learn with us at Berkeley Lab. Together, we can build the next generation of environmental problem-solvers working to make the world a better place! 🌍 🌿 ✨

🌟 Exciting Opportunity at Berkeley Lab! 🌟 Berkeley Lab’s Climate & Ecosystem Science Division in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) is seeking a passionate Postdoctoral Researcher for the Watershed Function Science Focus Area (SFA) project. This DOE-funded initiative delves into the snow-dominated, high-elevation watersheds of the Upper Colorado River Basin, crucial for providing water to 1 in 10 Americans. Our research is at the forefront of understanding how mountainous watersheds respond to warming and drought, significantly impacting their function. We focus on forest ecosystems and invite a motivated researcher to join us in investigating these critical issues. The role involves using cutting-edge techniques such as remote sensing, field observations, data analysis, modeling, and machine learning to explore how these conditions affect ecosystem functions. If you're passionate about making a difference and contributing to essential environmental research, we encourage you to apply. 🔗 Learn more and apply today: https://lnkd.in/e8QRf9pz #ResearchOpportunity #PostdocPosition #EnvironmentalScience #ClimateResearch #BerkeleyLab #EESA #UpperColoradoRiverBasin #MachineLearning #EcosystemFunction #ForestEcosystems

🌍👩🔬 Our experts are developing new ways to study soil carbon, from advanced models to novel tools that take x-rays of soil. These methods can help closely monitor soil carbon, informing how this significant carbon reservoir can affect the carbon cycle under climate change - from entire ecosystems to agricultural fields. Learn more about these efforts: https://bit.ly/4cRdWFR Berkeley Lab

🌍 🏔 ✨ Come join us here at EESA as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area project! If you're passionate about understanding and protecting our environment in a changing climate with different methods, from field observations to machine learning, this could be the role for you.

To understand changes in atmospheric CO2, we also have to understand changes in soil carbon dynamics. 🌎 Berkeley Lab scientists are exploring the biogeochemistry of soil by measuring soil electron activity, which tells us about the structure and stability of soil carbon under different environmental conditions 🌱🔬. This technology sheds light on how soil responds to rising temperatures and how soil carbon dynamics impact the global carbon cycle. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

🌎 Previous research has demonstrated that soil warming could increase carbon emissions from soil. That's why Berkeley Lab scientists are studying climate change from the ground up (literally) to see how soil carbon responds to and could further amplify rising temperatures. Postdoc Steve Kwatcho Kengdo, PhD is heating up soil samples collected from the field and analyzing the air around them to quantify #CO2 released from #soil, helping to inform how climate change can impact soil carbon emissions and vice versa. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)