News 2025

April
Education-Outreach

ddb lectured on the Land Grant Universities and Agricultural Experiment Stations to ESPM 201a

 The Biomet Lab led another field trip of 5th grade science students from Knightsen and Old River elementary schools to our Dutch Slough Ameriflux site. Thanks to scientists from DWR, Molly Ferrill, Tyler Anthony, USGS, Karen Thorne and her interns,  UCDavis Jason Riggio, and our team of Robert, Kyle and Joe for helping, plus Kuno from Estonia

 i encourage all environmental scientists to adopt a local school and do at least one day of out reach per year. Field trips are an experience so many students are missing out today. They learned how peat was formed, how we measure Co2 and methane fluxes, about the Delta, California rivers, salinity gradients in the SF bay estuary, the abundance of birds...plus otter poop. Knightsen has a special place in my heart. It is in east Contra Costa county and doesnt get the attention from faculty like Oakland and Berkeley schools. It is where i learned to swim and where i attended 4H meetings as a kid. The kids are so curious and attentive. Plus a wonderful spring day with a nice Delta breeze

The Fluxnet project was profiled in the College Breakthrough magazine

https://nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/sp25/world-climate-data

Meetings

Robert Shortt gave the Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center seminar as part of his require for an exit presentation for his PhD. Vy nice over view of the carbon dioxide and methane fluxes measured over our Delta network

ddb gave the ESPM Distinguished Faculty Spotlight lecture on Biometeorology@Berkeley 

https://berkeley.app.box.com/s/cuc29sup8y221zm9qtsy8ow2gc9jslhd

Staff News

ddb learned he is a 2024 Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS, ranked lifetime in the following subfields; thanks to the Biometlab team for working together to publish regularly and produce high quality and novel papers that are well received by our peers

Highly Ranked Scholar - Lifetime
#2,028 Overall (All Fields)
#441 Life Sciences
#5 Environmental Sciences
#3 Biosphere
#3 Global change
#4 Forest
#4 Meteorology
#8 Oak
#21 Ecosystem
#675 Energy

Submissions

Climate change has increased global evaporative demand, except in South Asia, PNAS Saeed Karimzadeh, Arman Ahmadi, Dennis Baldocchi, Joshua B. Fisher

 

Submissions

The Roads Traveled to Reach a Greenhouse Gas Flux Network, Dennis Baldocchi, Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/26376989

March
Meetings

ddb attended the workshop on Missing Links in Drought Research: Linking Plant Physiology, Soil Hydrology and Climate across Scales, Ascona, Switzerland and give a keynote presentation on How Ecosystem CO2 and H2O Fluxes Respond to Drought: Lessons Learned from a Semi-Arid, Oak Savanna in California

https://www.zhydro.ch/monteverita2025/

Publications

Jiang, P.,  Kidger, P.,  Bandai, T.,  Baldocchi, D.,  Liu, H.,  Xiao, Y., et al. (2025).  JAX-CanVeg: A differentiable land surface model. Water Resources Research,  61, e2024WR038116. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR038116

Visitors

Silvia Caldararu from Trinity University Dublin gave a lab seminar on her research on ecosystem response to phenology, drought and temperature with models and experiments 

February
Meetings

ddb attended CARB Public Workshop: Natural and Working Lands Carbon Inventory Methods

Kuno Kasak will attend the LICOR Connect 2025 meeting in Tucson, AZ. He will give a presentation on Methane flux dynamics in California oak savanna

 

Submissions

A global network of flux measurements revolutionizes terrestri, al carbon and water cycle research Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Jingfeng Xiao, D BaldocchiK. Ichii,  Fe Lei, D Papale

 JAX-CanVeg: A Differentiable Land Surface Model" [Paper #2024WR038116R] by Peishi Jian, Patrick Kidger, Toshiyuki Bandai, Dennis Baldocchi, Heping Liu, Yi Xiao, Qianyu Zhang, Carlos Tianxin Wang, Carl Steefel, Xingyuan Chen has been accepted for publication by Water Resources Research

THE ROLE OF HYDROPHYSICAL FACTORS AND SEDIMENT CARBON-NITROGEN COMPOUNDS IN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM RESTORED CALIFORNIA WETLANDS. Kuno Kasak, PhD Arman Ahmadi, PhD Daphne Szutu Robert Shortt Tianxin Wang, PhD Kyle Delwiche, PhD Eduardo Gamez Ariane Arias Ortiz, PhD Koong Yi, PhD Isaac Okiti Patty Oikawa, PhD Joseph Verfaillie Dennis Baldocchi, PhD. Water Research, submitted

January
Meetings

ddb attended the AMS annual meeting in New Orleans. He gave an invited talk on Beyond Carbon Fluxes: Extracting Meteorological, Eco-Hydrological, Soil and Plant Information from the Ameriflux/FLUXNET Databases and received the Verner E Suomi Technology Medal

 https://ams.confex.com/ams/105ANNUAL/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/454012

 

Publications

Wang, T., Mallick, Kanishka, Verfaille, Joseph, Szutu, Daphne, Baldocchi, Dennis et al. (2025). "Water scarcity in semi-arid California compromises perennial alfalfa’s high yield and carbon sinking potentials." Agricultural Water Management 308: 109284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2024.109284

 

 

Staff News

ddb received the Suomi Technology Medal at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society.

list of winners

https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/about-ams/ams-awards-honors/2025-award-and-honors-recipients/

Honors presentation on youtube, with ddb at minute 37..

https://youtu.be/odUXyvRF5Vw