Seminars

JANUARY 22, 2025 BASC Seminar

Dale Durran (University of Washington), A Deep Learning Earth System Model for Efficient Simulation of Seasonal Variability

JANUARY 29, 2025 BASC Seminar

Ron Cohen (UC Berkeley - EPS and Chemistry), Watching cities from space: Satellite observations of chemistry in urban plumes or "Hot urban summers: Temperature and the emissions that create ozone and aerosol

FEBRUARY 5, 2025 BASC Seminar

John Chiang (UC Berkeley - Geography), A role for orbital eccentricity in Earth’s seasonal climate

FEBRUARY 12, 2025 BASC Seminar

Yuan Wang (Stanford University), Dust Impacts on Hurricanes: From Machine-Learning Approach to Cloud-Resolving Simulations

FEBRUARY 19, 2025 BASC Seminar

Adrian Van Kan (UC Berkeley - Physics), Towards direct numerical simulations of geo (and astro) - physical turbulence at realistic parameter values

MARCH 12, 2025 BASC Seminar

Jessie Needham (LBNL), Demographic influences on forest carbon cycling

MARCH 19, 2025 BASC Seminar

Jeff Chambers (UCB/LBNL), Forest-atmosphere interactions under hot droughts in the Amazon

APRIL 2, 2025 BASC Seminar

Angela Rigden (UCI), Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Water Availability in Sub-Saharan Africa

APRIL 9, 2025 BASC Seminar

Shu-Hua Chen (UC Davis), The agricultural effects on planetary boundary layer height in California's Central Valley

APRIL 16, 2025 BASC Seminar

Held for Grad Students

APRIL 24, 2025 Seminar

Dennis Baldocchi (UCB - ESPM), Distinguished ESPM Faculty Lecture (in ESPM's seminar program)

APRIL 30, 2025 Seminar

Marianne Cowherd & Robert Shortt (UCB - ESPM), Finishing Talks

MAY 7, 2025 Seminar

Naiomi Asimow (UCB), Understanding Urban CO₂ Emissions with Inverse Modeling and Machine Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024 BASC Seminar

Christian Frankenberg (CalTech)

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024 BASC Seminar

Da Yang (U Chicago), The Incredible Lightness of Water Vapor

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024 BASC Seminar

Tiffany Shaw (U Chicago), Regional climate change: consensus, discrepancies and ways forward

OCTOBER 2, 2024 BASC Seminar

Dien Wu (CSU Ft. Collins), Seeing human imprints on local-scale carbon and water fluxes from space

OCTOBER 9, 2024 BASC Seminar

Lynn McMurdie (U Washington), Modification of Precipitation Processes by Complex Terrain: The Olympic Mountains Experiment (OLYMPEX)

OCTOBER 10, 2024 BASC Seminar

Margaret Duffy (UC Berkeley), Mechanisms of the relationship between the pattern of global warming and climate feedbacks

OCTOBER 16, 2024 BASC Seminar

Kaighin McColl, (Harvard) An analytic theory of near-surface relative humidity over land

OCTOBER 30, 2024 BASC Seminar

Dylan Millet (U Minnesota), Using infrared satellite-based measurements to understand the emissions and chemistry of atmospheric organic compounds

NOVEMBER 6, 2024 BASC Seminar

Matthew Coggon (NOAA Chemical Sciences Lab), Quantifying volatile organic compound emissions and chemistry in the modern urban atmosphere

NOVEMBER 13, 2024 BASC Seminar

Yue Dong (UCLA), Remote impacts of the Southern Ocean on tropical pattern effects

NOVEMBER 20, 2024 BASC Seminar

Rachel White (U British Columbia), From Atmospheric Waves to Heatwaves - Connecting Atmospheric ‘Waviness’ to Surface Heat Extremes

DECEMBER 4, 2024 BASC Seminar

AGU Practice Talks

JANUARY 24, 2024 BASC Seminar

Lucas Vargas Zepetello (UC Berkeley), Do stomata respond to variations in atmospheric relative humidity?

JANUARY 25, 2024 EPS Seminar

Nicole Shibley (Princeton), Fluid Dynamics for Polar Climate and Sustainability

JANUARY 31, 2024 BASC Seminar

Francesca Hopkins (UC Riverside), Developing an observational system to for methane mitigation in California

FEBRUARY 7, 2024 BASC Seminar

Geoffrey Vallis (University of Exeter), A Simple Model of the Madden–Julian Oscillation

FEBRUARY 8, 2024 EPS Seminar

Geoffrey Vallis (University of Exeter), Hothouse Climates and the Pole-Equator Temperature Gradient

FEBRUARY 14, 2024 BASC Seminar

Adam Wise/Chow Group (UC Berkeley), Impacts of thermally stratified turbulence and terrain on wind turbine performance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024 BASC Seminar

Arlene Fiore (MIT), Imprints of climate variability and global change on tropospheric oxidants

FEBRUARY 28, 2024 BASC Seminar

Anna Karion (NIST), The NIST Greenhouse Gas Urban Testbed System: Recent results and challenges in urban greenhouse gas emissions estimation

MARCH 4, 2024 Faculty Research Lecture

Inez Fung (UC Berkeley), On the CO2 Trail

MARCH 7, 2024 BASC Symposium

Pierre Gentine (Columbia University), Machine learning in climate science, from emulation to discoveries

MARCH 13, 2024 BASC Seminar

Allison Wing (FSU), Convective Aggregation and Tropical Climate in RCEMIP

MARCH 20, 2024 BASC Seminar

Amanda Frossard (U of Georgia), Organic signatures of surfactants in atmospheric aerosol particles and the influence of surfactants on particle hygroscopic growth

APRIL 3, 2024 BASC Seminar

Lee Murray (U of Rochester), Global simulation of isotopologues to constrain atmospheric chemistry in the deep past and present

APRIL 10, 2024 BASC Seminar

Timothy Bertram (University of Wisconsin), When and how do aerosol particles grow in the marine boundary layer: Insights from recent field measurements in the Eastern North Atlantic

APRIL 17, 2024 BASC Seminar

Tianxin Carlos Wang/Baldocchi Group (UC Berkeley), Don't be a drag, just be a queen: the reign of surface energy balance under advection at an irrigated alfalfa site

APRIL 24, 2024 BASC Seminar

Quentin Nicolas/Boos Group (UC Berkeley), Understanding changes in tropical orographic rainfall with global warming

AUGUST 30, 2023 Chemical Engineering Seminar

Nadine Borduas-Dedekind (University of British Columbia), Selenium in the atmosphere: Sources, sinks, seasonality and even synthesis and mechanisms!

AUGUST 30, 2023 BASC Seminar

Stephan Borrmann (Max-Planck Institute for Chemistry), Aerosol physical properties and chemical composition of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL): Results from aircraft using in-situ particle mass spectrometry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023 BASC Seminar

Alexander Knohl (U of Goettingen), Impacts of forest to oil palm transformation on greenhouse gas fluxes and surface energy balance: A case study from Sumatra/Indonesia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 BASC Seminar

Nick Siler (Oregon State University), A unified framework for interpreting variability in precipitation isotope ratios

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 BASC Seminar

Jose Fuentes (Penn State), Air chemistry and climate change in the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 BASC Seminar

Jose Fuentes (Penn State), Air chemistry and climate change in the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023 BASC Seminar

Mark Campmier/Apte Group (UC Berkeley), Scaling a Low-cost Regional PM2.5 Sensor Network in North India: Insights in Data-Poor Extremely Polluted Environments

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023 EPS Seminar

Bill Boos (UC Berkeley), Mechanisms and Trends of Monsoon Depressions: High-Impact Storms at the Edge of Earth’s Tropics

OCTOBER 4, 2023 BASC Seminar

Tyler Anthony (UC Berkeley), Hot moments of nitrous oxide and methane fluxes drive the majority of annual emissions from soil ecosystems

OCTOBER 5, 2023 ESPM Seminar

Compton Tucker (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), Semi-arid carbon stocks of 9.9 billion trees from 326,000 commercial satellite images

OCTOBER 11, 2023 BASC Seminar

Pallavi Pant (Health Effects Institute), Clearing the Air: Advancing Research and Engagement on Air Pollution in Resource-Constrained Settings

OCTOBER 18, 2023 BASC Seminar

Coty Jen (Carnegie Mellon University), Nucleation Potential Model for Atmospheric New Particle Formation

OCTOBER 25, 2023 BASC Seminar

Karen Mckinnon (UCLA), Land surface controls on climate variability and extremes

OCTOBER 31, 2023 Physical Chemistry Seminar

Eleanor Browne (University of Colorado, Boulder), Impact of Sulfur on Planetary Haze: Implications for Habitability

NOVEMBER 9, 2023 EPS/BASC Seminar

Riley Duren (U of Arizona), Remote sensing: tackling humanity’s methane crisis from above

NOVEMBER 15, 2023 BASC Seminar

Michael Kleeman (UC Davis), Understanding Sources of Exposure Disparities for Photochemical Air Pollutants

JANUARY 25, 2023 BASC seminar

John Chiang (UC Berkeley), A tale of two annual cycles: the remarkable change in Pacific cold tongue seasonality under orbital precession

FEBRUARY 1, 2023 BASC seminar

Susanne Hering (Aerosol Dynamics Inc.), Enumerating airborne particles in both urban environments and space habitats

FEBRUARY 13, 2023 Physics Colloquium

Alan Robock (Rutgers University), Global famine after nuclear war

FEBRUARY 16, 2023 EPS Colloquium

Alan Robock (Rutgers University), Benefits and risks of stratospheric geoengineering

FEBRUARY 22, 2023 Geog Colloquium

Tripti Bhattacharya (Syracuse U), Understanding future regional hydroclimate through the lens of paleoclimate

FEBRUARY 23, 2023 BASC SYMPOSIUM

Sally Pusede (U of Virginia), Observing air pollution inequality in U.S. cities from space

FEBRUARY 28, 2023 Johnston Lecture

Jonathan Reid (Bristol University), The physicochemical dynamics of exhaled aerosols and airborne disease transmission

MARCH 3, 2023 Env Eng Seminar

Newsha Ajami (LBNL), The role of engineering in addressing climate and social priorities

MARCH 8, 2023 GEOG Colloquium

Alan Rhoades (UC Berkeley/LBNL), Hydroclimatic change in the midlatitudes of the American Cordillera

APRIL 7, 2023 Env Eng Seminar

Alissa Park (Columbia U), CO2 utilization and storage via carbon mineralization and enhanced extraction of alkaline metals and rare earth elements from unconventional resources

APRIL 12, 2023 BASC Seminar

Jeff Anderson (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Improved Estimates of Atmospheric Tracer Concentrations and Sources: Fusing Observations and Models with Nonlinear, Non-Gaussian Data Assimilation

APRIL 14, 2023 Env Eng Seminar

Priyanka de Souza (University of Colorado, Denver), Making air quality count: Low-cost sensors, public health and urban planning

APRIL 19, 2023 BASC Seminar

Brian Mapes (University of Miami), Conversation starter about two phenomena I study: vapor lakes off East Africa and stratocumulus-deck gravity waves

APRIL 26, 2023 BASC Seminar

Haiyan Teng (LBNL), Boreal summer warming in the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes: Can we disentangle the forced response from the internal variability?

MAY 3, 2023 BASC Seminar

Sonia Seneviratne (ETH Zurich), Drought-vegetation-climate interactions in the climate crisis: New insights and future perspectives

AUGUST 24, 2022 BASC Seminar

Manvendra Dubey (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Climate Forcing

AUGUST 30, 2022 CIPS Seminar

Huazhi Ge (UC Santa Cruz), Water controls heat transport in Jupiter's weather layer: Implication to the evolution and interior of gas giants

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022 Hal Johnston Lecture

Kimberly Prather (UC San Diego), Tiny critters, huge impacts: Ocean microbes, climate, and health

OCTOBER 14, 2022 ENV Eng Seminar

Vishal Verma (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Oxidative and Toxicological Properties of Ambient Fine Particulate Matter: A Perspective on the Relative Contribution of Different Emission Sources

OCTOBER 20, 2022 EPS Seminar

Pierre Maffre (UC Berkeley), Building mountainous islands in South-East Asia: A multi-faceted climate cooling process

OCTOBER 27, 2022 EPS Seminar

Cynthia Gerlein (UC Berkeley), The CYGNSS small-sat mission: a new window into the hydrology of wetlands and its consequence for methane emissions modeling

NOVEMBER 2, 2022 BASC Seminar

Ji Nie (Peking University), Atmospheric circulation shaped by continental drift in paleoclimates

FEBRUARY 1, 2022 PChem seminar

Astrid Kiendler-Scharr (MPI-Julich/UCB), Secondary organic aerosol: current understanding of main formation pathways and knowledge gaps

FEBRUARY 3, 2022 BASC Symposium Keynote

Clara Deser (NCAR), The Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Natural Climate Variability

FEBRUARY 9, 2022 BASC Symposium Keynote

Dennis Baldocchi (UCB, ESPM), BASC Symposium Keynote: Lessons Learned about the Breathing of the Biosphere, from a Network of Greenhouse Gas Flux Measurement Towers

FEBRUARY 16, 2022 BASC Seminar

David Breshears (Arizona), Drought- and Heat-Related Tree Mortality: Drivers and Consequences

FEBRUARY 23, 2022 BASC Meeting

BASC Students and Postdocs (UCB), Discussion over lunch

MARCH 2, 2022 BASC Meeting

BASC Students and Postdocs (UCB), Discussion over lunch

MARCH 9, 2022 BASC Symposium Keynote

Kristie Boering (UCB, Chemistry/ EPS), BASC Symposium Keynote: Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate on a Changing Earth

MARCH 16, 2022 BASC Symposium Keynote

Eric Saltzman (UC Irvine, Earth System Science), BASC Symposium Keynote: A look at H2 in the rear-view mirror

MARCH 18, 2022 CEE Seminar

Cristina Archer (U Delaware), The Complex Story of How Wind Turbines Affect Near-Ground Properties

MARCH 31, 2022 ESPM Seminar

Marysa Laguë (U Saskatchewan), From plants to planets: land surface effects on global climate

APRIL 4, 2022 ESPM Seminar

Lucas Vargas Zeppetello (Harvard), How are temperautre and soil moisture connected at Earth's land surface?

APRIL 7, 2022 ESPM Seminar

Alia Khan (Western Washington U), From field sites to satellites: investigating biogeochemical drivers of snow and ice melt in the global cryosphere

APRIL 11, 2022 ESPM Seminar

James Bradley (Queen Mary U (UK)), Energy limits and life: the deep biosphere, Earth's cryosphere, and global change

APRIL 13, 2022 BASC Seminar

Charlie Koven (LBL), Are there limits, in either direction, to the proportionality of global warming to cumulative carbon dioxide emissions?

APRIL 20, 2022 BASC Seminar

Alexis Kaminski (UCB, Mechanical Engineering), Lagrangian float observations of the North Pacific transition layer

APRIL 27, 2022 BASC Seminar

BASC Grads and Postdocs (UCB), Short talks by post-docs and graduate students