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21 posts categorized "Climate Sciences Department"

02/13/2012

ESD Climate Scientists and the Press

Clearly informing the general public about the scientific work related to climate change is a necessity. Addressing this need, ESD climate scientists recently spoke to media representatives on key climate issues.

12/06/2011

Climate Change to Wind to Wildfires

ESD’s Norm Miller and other scientists have recently conducted research on how climate change could increase the danger of wind-driven wildfires—and extend the season of greatest risk for such fires.

12/01/2011

ESD at the AGU Fall Meeting, Mon–Fri, Dec. 5–9, 2011

At this year’s AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, ESD will man a booth, have scientists available to talk about their work, and have an HR representative on hand to meet with people pursuing work in Earth sciences.

11/28/2011

Torn Finds Emissions Goals Achievable

In a recently published article in Science, ESD’s Margaret Torn and others find that California’s 2050 carbon-emission-reduction goals are achievable using available technologies— assuming the widespread electrification of transportation and other sectors.

11/17/2011

LBNL and Wuhan University Collaborate

This past Monday, Nov. 14, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Wuhan University of China agreed (in a memorandum of understanding—MOU) to collectively explore their mutual interests in scientific education and research

11/09/2011

CC2.0 Special Event: Don DePaolo Talk

ESD Director Donald J. DePaolo talks about the link between climate change and the “carbon cycle change”: the fact that Earth’s carbon cycles have undergone revolutionary change, entirely due to human burning of fossil fuels and removal of forests

10/12/2011

Next Science at the Theater to Focus on the World Beneath Our Feet

Four ESD scientists will unveil the “Secrets of the Soil” at the next Science at the Theater on Monday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. at the Berkeley Rep.

10/05/2011

Soil Carbon's Fate as Climate Changes

Scientists 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.

09/06/2011

NGEE: Quantifying Climate Change

The NGEE project will involve experiments at two different Alaskan sites to study the impact of rapid ecosystem changes caused by permafrost thaw, and how these changes influence greenhouse-gas release to the atmosphere.

08/23/2011

Thawing Permafrost Could Release Vast Amounts of Carbon and Accelerate Climate Change

Billions of tons of carbon trapped in permafrost may be released into the atmosphere by the end of this century as the Earth’s climate changes, according to a new computer modeling study led by ESD's Charles Koven.