ESPM CE Specialist Bill Stewart is quoted in this KQED article on the massive wildfire that swept through the Fort McMurray oil sands region of Alberta. Stewart notes that there's "no stopping the advance of a fire such as the wind-driven flames in Alberta, which is spreading embers well beyond fire lines."
Lawrence Berkeley Lab | May 04, 2016
ESPM professor Dennis Baldocchi and former researcher Sebastian Wolf published a research article to PNAS on the sensitivity of carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems to large-scale extreme climate events. The research team gathered their findings through the Ameriflux network, a community of scientists and site that meausre ecosystem carbon, water, and energy fluxes in North and South America. ERG's Margaret Torn oversees the Ameriflux Management Project, which supports the Ameriflux network.
Berkeley Science Review | May 03, 2016
ESPM's Professors Ron Amundson and John Battles and alum Erik Oerter and ERG's Professor Margaret Torn and student Ian Bolliger were featured in the Berkeley Science Review on UC Berkeley climate change research.
KQED | May 03, 2016
ESPM graduate student Brian Whyte is quoted in this KQED Deep Look feature on Argentine ants and the resilience of native ant species in Jasper Ridge. Whyte also assisted with the filming and research of the ants in the video.
The Scientist | May 01, 2016
A spate of howler monkey deaths in Nicaragua, Panama, and Ecuador has researchers scrambling to identify the cause. ESPM Professor Katharin Milton says that there haven’t been reports of unusual deaths in other monkey species so far, but because howler monkeys are by far the most abundant monkey species at many sites in Central America, die-offs in their populations might be most obvious.
UC Berkeley News | April 26, 2016
ESPM undergrad Avery Hardy is part of the UC Berkeley "Unbound" team, which took 2nd place in the EPA's Campus Rainworks Challenge. Their project envisioned a new design for the Wickson Meadow area of Strawberry Creek.
TIME Magazine | April 21, 2016
Alum Hope Jahren ('Ph.D. '96) is on Time Magazine's 100 Most Important People list. Listed as one of 21 Pioneers, Jahren is noted as a scientist who is "both a leader in her field and a great writer," who uses her platform to talk about widespread sexual harassment and discrimination in science.