George Pau Wins Early Career Research Award

ESD Website Teaser: ESD’s George Pau wins a DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program award for his work on “A Multiscale Reduced Order Method for Integrated Earth System Modeling.”

A Little Climate Change Means a Lot

ESD’s Charles Koven introduces us to his predictive climate maps, asking us to visualize what will happen by calculating climate analogs (how similar climates are to each other) and how these analogs will shift with global warming.

Soil-Moisture Effects on Soil Temperature Responses to Climate Change in Cold Regions

Permafrost-zone soils contain about 1700 Pg C, and recent research has focused on investigating the potential vulnerability of this carbon to mineralization under climate warming At high latitudes, changes in soil moisture could alter soil temperatures independently of air temperature changes.

LBNL-UCD Predictive Agriculture Workshop

The First Partnership Workshop of the LBNL/UC-Davis Predictive Agricultural Initiative focused on how to sustainably manage agricultural systems for a growing world population under changing environmental conditions.

ESD’s Ice-Breaking Science

ESD’s Susan Hubbard and her colleagues have trekked to Alaska throughout the past year to follow changes to the permafrost, seeking to understand how climate change will influence the trajectory of the permafrost system.

A Wealth of Earth Day-Week Activities

LBNL Deputy Director Horst Simon, in a message to the Lab, announces a wealth of Lab activities related to Earth Day and Earth Week, and invites all Lab employees to learn how they can make a positive impact.

Collins, Earth Day, and the Planet To Be

At noon on Earth Day, Monday, April 22, Bldng 50 Auditorium, ESD’s Bill Collins will explore the latest evidence from across the scientific community documenting the warming and thawing taking place around the globe.

LBNL Earth Week Activities

April 22-26, Earth Week at LBNL, will include LBNL’s Science at the Theater event entitled “How Hot Will It Get.” As part of this event, ESD’s Margaret Torn, Jeff Chambers, and Bill Collins will discuss the Earth’s changing climate.

ESD Stars in Science at the Theater

On April 22, 7 p.m. at Berkeley Rep, as part of the LBNL’s Science at the Theater event entitled “How Hot Will It Get,” ESD’s Margaret Torn, Jeff Chambers, and Bill Collins will discuss the Earth’s changing climate.

Self-Aggregation, Cold Pools, and Domain Size

Convective self-aggregation refers to a phenomenon in cloud-resolving simulations wherein the atmosphere spontaneously develops a circulation with a convecting moist patch and a nonconvecting dry patch.