Watershed Function – Scientific Focus Area
Fadji Zaouna Maina (Berkeley Lab) is among Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list of “revolutionaries changing the course—and the face—of business and society.” Maina, included in the science category, uses computational models to better understand how climate change and pollution affect water availability. Read more »
To learn more about some of Fadji Maina’s research, watch and read Fadji’s pitch on “Sustainable Water for an Uncertain Future” (from the Berkeley Lab “Research SLAM”).
Researchers from the Watershed Function SFA will have a strong presence at the upcoming AGU Fall meeting, December 9 – 13, 2019.
The SFA will also host a session at Booth #1622 in the North Hall, Wednesday December 11, 10:00 – 11:30 AM at the Berkeley Lab Earth and Environmental Sciences AGU booth.
A complete listing of the SFA’s AGU activities is available here.
The AGU Fall Meeting “is the largest international Earth and space science meeting in the world” and will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. 2019 marks the 100th year of AGU.
Heidi Steltzer drew upon experience working in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado near the headwaters of the Colorado River in co-authoring the report’s chapter on high mountains. This marks the first time since 1996 that the IPCC has featured a chapter on mountains within one of its reports. Read more »
USGS researchers working at East River and the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory have partnered with EMusic to create music using subsurface ElectroMagnetic (EM) data collected by USGS from Crested Butte.
The sound installation, titled “Colorado Sketches: A musical day trip into the Mountains” will take place on September 29 from 1 pm to 7 pm Mountain Daylight Time (UTC -0600) via live stream. More info is provided in the teaser video below:
Carl Steefel, a senior scientist in the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab and a component lead of the Watershed Function SFA, has been named by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as a 2019 AGU Fellow.
Every year, the AGU Fellows program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to the Earth and Space sciences. Vetted by a committee of AGU Fellows, honorees represent no more than 0.1 percent of AGU’s 60,000 members. Read more »
Reed Maxwell, Rowlinson Professor of Hydrology at Colorado School of Mines and a component lead of the Watershed Function SFA, has been named by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as a 2019 AGU Fellow.
Every year, the AGU Fellows program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to the Earth and Space sciences. Vetted by a committee of AGU Fellows, honorees represent no more than 0.1 percent of AGU’s 60,000 members. Read more »