EPS Colloquium – Dennis Baldocchi, UC Berkeley
Lessons Learned about the Breathing of the Biosphere, from a Californian Network of Greenhouse Gas Flux Measurement Towers
This talk will revolve around lessons learned by collecting quasi-continuous and long term trace gas fluxes from a network of managed and natural fields sites across California. We will investigate if and how fluxes are changing in a warmer world, with more CO2 and booms and busts in rain. We will also explore how ecosystems, like wetlands, can help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and at what cost?
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Prof. Baldocchi earned his BS degree from the University of California, Davis in Atmospheric Science and his Ph.D degree in Bioenvironmental Engineering from the University of Nebraska. Between 1982 and 1999, he worked as a postdoc, biometeorologist and physical scientist at the NOAA Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division in Oak Ridge, TN. In 1999, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley. Prof. Baldocchi’s research focuses on the biological, physical, chemical and ecological processes that govern trace gas exchange between ecosystems and the atmosphere. To conduct this research he and his team use regional and global networks of eddy covariance flux measurements systems, leaf to canopy models and satellite remote sensing. Prof. Baldocchi is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society, recipient of the AMS award for Outstanding Achievement in Biometeorology, the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Water Prize for Surface Water and a Doctor Honoris Causa from Wageningen University.