Watershed Function – Scientific Focus Area
Jill Banfield has been awarded the 2023 van Leeuwenhoek Medal for her contributions to the understanding of microbial communities and interactions between microbes and the environment. Her work at Old Rifle, East River, and many places beyond has been both groundbreaking and instrumental to understanding environmental processes catalyzed and controlled by microbial activity. Read more »
In its inaugural year, the 2022 LBNL Director’s Stewardship Award has been awarded to Ken Williams, the Watershed Function SFA Deputy Lead for Operations. The award was given in recognition of Ken’s efforts in establishing the East River study site as a community observatory that serves a vast network of collaborators. Read more »
Award citation: For his creation of world-class, first-of-their-kind field experimental community observatories that have yielded unprecedented insights into microbial, geochemical, and hydrologic processes benefitting DOE’s Offices of Science and Legacy Management, and for his advocacy of stewardship.
EESA Research Scientist Sebastian Uhlemann has been named the recipient of the Near-Surface Geophysics Early Career Achievement Award from AGU, the American Geophysical Union.
Each year, AGU sections such as the Near-Surface Geophysics Section, recognize outstanding work by professionals within their fields by granting awards and hosting numerous lectures. More information about all the awardees can be found here.
(Reposted from EESA website, author credit: Christina Procopiou, LBNL)
The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) will make its debut at the East River, CO Watershed in September 2021.
Science Magazine highlighted the upcoming deployment in a story included in their August 27 issue (first online Aug 24).
Read more about SAIL in this latest storyboard.
SFA researcher Dr. Rosemary Carroll (Desert Research Institute) was featured on NPR’s morning edition in a story titled “Rain During Monsoon Season Is Becoming Less Reliable, Less Effective“. Carroll references results from Watershed Function SFA research showing how low snowpack results in conditions that lessen the amount of lower streamflow generated monsoon rains. Listen here »
SFA Field Deputy Ken Williams was interviewed for the Sopris Sun, a newspaper based out of Carbondale, CO. Williams discussed how the Grizzly Creek fire can be a useful test case for understanding how wildfire affects water quality and nutrient cycling as well as different forest types. Read more »