Susan Hubbard Named 2017 American Geophysical Union Fellow
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has named Susan Hubbard, Associate Laboratory Director for the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as a 2017 AGU Fellow.
Margaret Torn Named 2017 American Geophysical Union Fellow
Margaret Torn, a senior scientist in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)’s Earth & Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), has been named by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as a 2017 AGU Fellow.
Novel Monitoring Strategy Uncovers New Insights to Arctic Ecosystems
Scientists studying Arctic ecosystems have long relied on established—yet limited—methods to help them understand how elements within an ecosystem interact with each other.
Defrosting the World’s Freezer: Thawing Permafrost
Snowy peaks rise up in one direction; boggy tundra spreads across the other. Fuzzy heads of long-stemmed plants sway in the wind, interspersed with bog blueberries.
Director's Early Scientific Career Achievement Award: Haruko Wainwright
For pioneering zonation-based estimation methodologies, with a focus on novel approaches that use geophysical data and their application to DOE challenges in environmental remediation, carbon cycle, and water resources.
Aquatic Plants May Accelerate Arctic Methane Emissions
About two thirds of the gas produced by a study area near Barrow, Alaska, came from increasingly abundant greenery covering only 5% of the landscape, researchers estimate.