News 2020

December
Meetings

ddb and Carlos Wang attended and participated in the NASA ECOSTRESS pi virtual meeting.  ddb presented on our work Towards assessing Evaporation across California.

Camilo Rey Sanchez gave a presentation on Atmospheric boundary layer height in the Sacramento San Joaquin Detla and its response to Seasonality of land cover, Subsidence and advection at the Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center.

he also interviewed at NC State for a faculty position and gave a similar seminar

 AGU was held virtually this year. The Biometlab contributed to several presenations and posters

Methane emissions from rice production: a synthesis of 24 eddy covariance sites Benjamin Runkle, Zutao Yang, Robert B Jackson, Sara Knox, Gavin McNicol, Dario Papale, Maricar CR Alberto, Dennis D Baldocchi, Alessandro Cescatti, Chi-Ling Chen, Bryant Fong, Haiqiang Guo, Hiroki Iwata, Qingyu Jia, Weimin Ju, Minseok Kang, Joon Kim, Hong Li, Hao Lu, Michele L Reba, Debora Regina Roberti, Youngryel Ryu, Ben-Jei Tsuang, Wenping Yuan, Yongguang Zhang

Scaling Up Rice Methane Fluxes in Monsoon Asia Through Data-Driven Model Zutao Yang, Robert B Jackson, Benjamin Runkle, Dario Papale, Gavin McNicol, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Sara Knox, Maricar CR Alberto, Dennis D Baldocchi, Alessandro Cescatti, Chi-Ling Chen, Jinwei Dong, Haiqiang Guo, Geli Zhang, Hiroki Iwata, Qingyu Jia, Weimin Ju, Minseok Kang, Hong Li, Joon Kim, Hao Lu, Michele L Reba, Debora Regina Roberti, Youngryel Ryu, Benjei Tsuang, Xiangming Xiao, Wenping Yuan, Yongguang Zhangh

The ECOSTRESS Science and Applications Team: Synergies Across Land, Air, and Sea

Joshua B Fisher, Christine M Lee, Kerry-Anne Cawse-Nicholson, Glynn C Hulley, Richard G Allen, Martha B Anderson, Dennis D Baldocchi, Nicholas DeFelice, Chris Doughty, Christian Frankenberg, Andrew N French, Christopher Hain, Christoph Hecker, Chuanmin Hu, Soe Win Myint, Daniel Brooks Otis, Helen Poulos, David S Wethey, Mary Whelan, Eric F Wood, Jingfeng Xiao, Simon J Hook

Publications

Dronova, Iryna, Sophie Taddeo, Kyle S. Hemes, Sara H. Knox, Alex Valach, Patricia Y. Oikawa, Kuno Kasak, and Dennis D. Baldocchi. 2021. 'Remotely sensed phenological heterogeneity of restored wetlands: linking vegetation structure and function', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 296.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108215

 

Submissions

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Title: Vertical heterogeneity in broadleaf forests: effects on light interception and canopy photosynthesis Dr. Martin BelandDennis D Baldocchi

November
Publications

Chadburn, Sarah E., Tuula Aalto, Mika Aurela, Dennis Baldocchi, Christina Biasi, Julia Boike, Eleanor J. Burke, Edward Comyn-Platt, A. Johannes Dolman, Carolina Duran-Rojas, Yuanchao Fan, Thomas Friborg, Yao Gao, Nicola Gedney, Mathias Göckede, Garry D. Hayman, David Holl, Gustaf Hugelius, Lars Kutzbach, Hanna Lee, Annalea Lohila, Frans-Jan W. Parmentier, Torsten Sachs, Narasinha J. Shurpali, and Sebastian Westermann. 'Modeled microbial dynamics explain the apparent temperature-sensitivity of wetland methane emissions', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, e2020GB006678. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006678

 Anderson, Martha C., Yang Yang, Jie Xue, Kyle R. Knipper, Yun Yang, Feng Gao, Chris R. Hain, William P. Kustas, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Glynn Hulley, Joshua B. Fisher, Joseph G. Alfieri, Tilden P. Meyers, John Prueger, Dennis D. Baldocchi, and Camilo Rey-Sanchez. 2020. 'Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales', Remote Sensing of Environment: 112189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112189

 

 

Staff News

Robert Short is a Carbon Neutrality Fellow for the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. congratulations

Alex Valach has moved on from the lab and has a postdoc at Agroscope in Zurich Switzerland in the Ammann lab. Congratulations on the new position and thanks for the wonderful service and productivity to the lab as a scientist and colleague

Camilo Rey Sanchez is invited to give a job seminar at North Carolina State

Submissions

Alex Valach, PhD; Kuno Kasak; Kyle S Hemes; Tyler L. Anthony; Iryna Dronova; Sophie Taddeo; Whendee L. Silver; Daphne Szutu; Joseph Verfaillie; Dennis D Baldocchi

Wetland restoration for natural climate solutions: Productive wetlands quickly become net CO2 sinks, but multiyear sink strength and stability vary with site-level factors related to restoration design and management

PONE-D-20-35610

Martha Anderson et al. "Interoperability of ECOSTRESS and Landsat for mapping evapotranspiration time series at sub-field scales," Remote Sensing Environment, Accepted

 

Identifying dominant environmental predictors of global freshwater wetland CH4 fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales. Global change Biology

Sara Helen Knox, Sheel Bansal, Gavin McNicol, Karina Schafer, Cove Sturtevant, Masahito Ueyama, Alex C. Valach, Dennis Baldocchi, Kyle Delwiche, Ankur R Desai, Eugenie Euskirchen, Jinxun Liu, Annalea Lohila, Avni Malhotra, Lulie Melling, William J. Riley, Benjamin R. K. Runkle, Jessica Turner, Rodrigo Vargas, Qing Zhu, Tuula Aalto, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Mathias Göckede, Joe R. Melton, Oliver Sonnentag, Timo Vesala, Eric J. Ward, Zhen Zhang, Sarah Feron3, 24, Zutao Ouyang3, Angela C. I. Tang13, Pavel Alekseychik5, Mika Aurela, Gil Bohrer, David I. Campbell27, Jiquan Chen, Housen Chu, Higo J Dalmagro, Jordan P. Goodrich, Pia Gottschalk, Takashi Hirano, Hiroki Iwata, Gerald Jurasinski, Minseok Kang35, Franziska Koebsch, Ivan Mammarella, Mats B. Nilsson36, Keisuke Ono, Matthias Peichl, Olli Peltola, Youngryel Ryu, Torsten Sachs31, Ayaka Sakabe, Jed Sparks, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, George L Vourlitis, Guan Xhuan Wong13, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Ben Poulter, Robert B. Jackson

Visitors

Zulia Sanchez gave a presentation on her research, air sea water exchange of coastal lagoon to the Biomet Lab.

Dr. Zulia Mayari Sanchez Mejia is an Associate Professor in the Water Science and Environment Department at the Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora (ITSON) in Sonora, Mexico.

https://www.aguecohydrology.org/blog-adding-our-leaves/meet-a-leaf-zulia-mayari-sanchez-mejia

 

ddb participated in the Manuela Girotto lab meeting

October
Meetings

The BiometLab is attending the Virtual Ameriflux Conference. Nicole Keeney, Alex Valach and Camilo Rey Sanchez are presenting posters.  Many BiometLab alumni are on the organizing committee of the conference, Sara Knox, Josh Fisher and Ben Runkle

Nicole Keeney, Evaluation of a simple parameterization for the evaporative stress index 

Camilo Rey-Sanchez Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height and its Responses to Seasonality of Land Cover, Subsidence, and Advection

Alex Valach How do we evaluate climate benefits of ecosystems? A case study of long-term flux monitoring from restored wetlands



Publications

Ma, Siyan, Elke Eichelmann, Sebastian Wolf, Camilo Rey-Sanchez, and Dennis D. Baldocchi. 2020. 'Transpiration and evaporation in a Californian oak-grass savanna: Field measurements and partitioning model results', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 295: 108204.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108204

 

 Baldocchi, D., Ma, S. and Verfaillie, J. (2020), On the Inter‐ and Intra‐annual Variability of Ecosystem Evapotranspiration and Water Use Efficiency of an Oak Savanna and Annual Grassland Subjected to Booms and Busts in Rainfall. Glob Change Biol.. doi:10.1111/gcb.15414

 Bond-Lamberty, Ben, Danielle S. Christianson, Avni Malhotra, Stephanie C. Pennington, Debjani Sihi, Amir AghaKouchak, Hassan Anjileli, M. Altaf Arain, Juan J. Armesto, Samaneh Ashraf, Mioko Ataka, Dennis Baldocchi, Thomas Andrew Black, Nina Buchmann, Mariah S. Carbone, Shih-Chieh Chang, Patrick Crill, Peter S. Curtis, Eric A. Davidson, Ankur R. Desai, John E. Drake, Tarek S. El-Madany, Michael Gavazzi, Carolyn-Monika Görres, Christopher M. Gough, Michael Goulden, Jillian Gregg, Omar Gutiérrez del Arroyo, Jin-Sheng He, Takashi Hirano, Anya Hopple, Holly Hughes, Järvi Järveoja, Rachhpal Jassal, Jinshi Jian, Haiming Kan, Jason Kaye, Yuji Kominami, Naishen Liang, David Lipson, Catriona A. Macdonald, Kadmiel Maseyk, Kayla Mathes, Marguerite Mauritz, Melanie A. Mayes, Steve McNulty, Guofang Miao, Mirco Migliavacca, Scott Miller, Chelcy F. Miniat, Jennifer G. Nietz, Mats B. Nilsson, Asko Noormets, Hamidreza Norouzi, Christine S. O’Connell, Bruce Osborne, Cecilio Oyonarte, Zhuo Pang, Matthias Peichl, Elise Pendall, Jorge F. Perez-Quezada, Claire L. Phillips, Richard P. Phillips, James W. Raich, Alexandre A. Renchon, Nadine K. Ruehr, Enrique P. Sánchez-Cañete, Matthew Saunders, Kathleen E. Savage, Marion Schrumpf, Russell L. Scott, Ulli Seibt, Whendee L. Silver, Wu Sun, Daphne Szutu, Kentaro Takagi, Masahiro Takagi, Munemasa Teramoto, Mark G. Tjoelker, Susan Trumbore, Masahito Ueyama, Rodrigo Vargas, Ruth K. Varner, Joseph Verfaillie, Christoph Vogel, Jinsong Wang, Greg Winston, Tana E. Wood, Juying Wu, Thomas Wutzler, Jiye Zeng, Tianshan Zha, Quan Zhang, and Junliang Zou. 'COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data', Global Change Biology,

https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15353

 

Descals, Adrià, Aleixandre Verger, Iolanda Filella, Dennis Baldocchi, Ivan A. Janssens, Yongshuo H. Fu, Shilong Piao, Marc Peaucelle, Philippe Ciais, and Josep Peñuelas. 2020. 'Soil thawing regulates the spring growth onset in tundra and alpine biomes', Science of the Total Environment, 742: 140637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140637

 

 

 

 

Submissions

Baldocchi, D, Ma, Siyan, Verfaillie, J. On the Inter and Intra-annual Variability of Ecosystem Evaportranspiration, Transpiration and Water Use Efficiency of an Oak Savanna and Annual Grassland Subjected to Booms and Busts in Rainfall, Global Change Biology Accepted for Publication

 

Title: Footprint Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance Flux Measurements Across AmeriFlux Sites
Corresponding Author: Dr. Housen Chu
Co-Authors: Xiangzhong Luo; Zutao Ouyang; W. Stephen Chan; Sigrid Dengel; Sébastien C. Biraud; Margaret S. Torn; Stefan Metzger; Jitendra Kumar; M. Altaf Arain; Tim J. Arkebauer; Dennis Baldocchi; Carl Bernacchi; Dave Billesbach; T. Andrew Black; Peter D. Blanken; Gil Bohrer; Rosvel Bracho; Shannon Brown; Nathaniel A. Brunsell; Jiquan Chen; Xingyuan Chen; Kenneth Clark; Ankur R. Desai; Tomer Duman; David Durden; Silvano Fares; Inke Forbrich; John A. Gamon; Christopher M. Gough; Timothy Griffis; Manuel Helbig; David Hollinger; Elyn Humphreys; Hiroki Ikawa; Hiroki Iwata; Yang Ju; John F. Knowles; Sara H. Knox; Hideki Kobayashi; Thomas Kolb; Beverly Law; Xuhui Lee; Marcy Litvak; Heping Liu; J. William Munger; Asko Noormets; Kim Novick; Steven F. Oberbauer; Walter Oechel; Patty Oikawa; Shirley A. Papuga; Elise Pendall; Prajaya Prajapati; John Prueger; William L Quinton; Andrew D. Richardson; Eric S. Russell; Russell L. Scott; Gregory Starr; Ralf Staebler; Paul C. Stoy; EllenStuart-Haëntjens; Oliver Sonnentag; Ryan C. Sullivan; Andy Suyker; Masahito Ueyama; Rodrigo Vargas; Jeffrey D. Wood; Donatella Zona

 

Title: FLUXNET-CH4: A global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands


Author(s): Kyle B. Delwiche, Sara Helen Knox, Avni Malhotra, Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Gavin McNicol, Sarah Feron, Zutao Ouyang, Dario Papale, Carlo Trotta, Eleonora Canfora, You-Wei Cheah, Danielle Christianson, Ma. Carmelita R. Alberto, Pavel Alekseychik, Mika Aurela, Dennis Baldocchi, Sheel Bansal, David P. Billesbach, Gil Bohrer, Rosvel Bracho, Nina Buchmann, David I. Campbell, Gerardo Celis, Jiquan Chen, Weinan Chen, Housen Chu, Higo J Dalmagro, Sigrid Dengel, Ankur R Desai, Matteo Detto, Han Dolman, Elke Eichelmann, Eugenie Euskirchen, Daniela Famulari, Thomas Friborg, Kathrin Fuchs, Mathias Goeckede, Sébastien Gogo, Mangaliso J. Gondwe, Jordan P Goodrich, Pia Gottschalk, Scott L. Graham, Martin Heimann, Manuel Helbig, Carole Helfter, Kyle S. Hemes, Takashi Hirano, David Hollinger, Lukas Hörtnagl, Hiroki Iwata, Adrien Jacotot, Joachim Jansen, Gerald Jurasinski, Minseok Kang, Kuno Kasak, John King, Janina Klatt, Franziska Koebsch, Ken W Krauss, Derrick Y.F. Lai, Ivan Mammarella, Giovanni Manca, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Jaclyn Hatala Matthes, Trofim Maximon, Lutz Merbold, Bhaskar Mitra, Timothy H. Morin, Eiko Nemitz, Mats B. Nilsson, Shuli Niu, Walter C Oechel, Patricia Y. Oikawa, Keisuke Ono, Matthias Peichl, Olli Peltola, Michele L. Reba, Andrew D. Richardson, William Riley, Benjamin R. K. Runkle, Youngryel Ryu, Torsten Sachs, Ayaka Sakabe, Camilo Rey Sanchez, Edward A Schuur, Karina VR Schäfer, Oliver Sonnentag, Jed P. Sparks, Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens, Cove Sturtevant, Ryan C. Sullivan, Daphne J. Szutu, Jonathan E Thom, Margaret S. Torn, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, Jessica Turner, Masahito Ueyama, Alex C. Valach, Rodrigo Vargas, Andrej Varlagin, Alma Vazquez-Lule, Joseph G. Verfaillie, Timo Vesala, George L Vourlitis, Eric J. Ward, Christian Wille, Georg Wohlfahrt, Guan Xhuan Wong, Zhen Zhang, Donatella Zona, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Benjamin Poulter, and Robert B. Jackson
MS No.: essd-2020-307

 

happy to see 15 current and former Biomet Lab members on the paper

 

Dronova et al.  Ref. No.:  AGRFORMET-D-20-00412R2 Remotely sensed phenological heterogeneity of restored wetlands: linking vegetation structure and function
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Accepted for Publication

Rosa, L, Realmonte, G, Danchez, D, Baldocchi, D. D'Odorico, P. The water footprint of carbon capture and storage technologies

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Accepted for Publication

 

September
Meetings

Ariiane Arias Ortiz presented data from the Delta Wetland soil and flux measurements at a virtual Delta Council conference on Greenhouse Gas/Sediment Science Workshop

Daphne Szutu was a panel member of Ameriflux Best practices webinar

Other

Ddb was interviewed on Climate and Wildfires on the KGO Pat Thurston show

https://omny.fm/shows/the-pat-thurston-show/september-8-2020-california-wildfires-illustrate-t

Publications

Béland, Martin, and Dennis Baldocchi. 2020. 'Is foliage clumping an outcome of resource limitations within forests?', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 295: 108185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108185

 

Submissions

Bond-Lamberty et al. COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data" has been accepted for publication.Global Change Biology

Transpiration and Evaporation in a Californian Oak-Grass Savanna: Field Measurements and Partitioning-model Results, by Siyan Ma, Ph.D.; Elke Eichelmann, Ph.D.; Sebastian Wolf, Ph.D.; Camilo Rey-Sanchez, Ph.D.; Dennis D Baldocchi, PhD, has been accepted for publication in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Hemes, K, Runkle, Ben, Novick, Kim, Baldocchi, Dennis, Field, Chris. The role of ecosystem-scale flux measurements in assessing natural climate solutions. Enviromental Science and Technology

 

ECOSTRESS estimates gross primary production at fine spatial resolution and different times of day from the International Space Station. Xingfeng Xiao, Xing Li; Joshua B. Fisher; Dennis D. Baldocchi, Remote Sensing of the Environment

Visitors

Kosana Suvocarev, the Cooperative Extension Biometeorologist gave a seminar to the Biomet Lab meeting on her work studying evaporation and irrigation across California. She has over 20 surface renewal ET stations over many CA commodity crops.

August
Education-Outreach

Classes started at Cal and we are lecturing in the cloud.

Meetings

ddb gave the Ecoinformatics Seminar at Northern Arizona University on Handshaking between Eddy flux and Remote Sensing, lessons learned between 1982 and 2020

Other

Smoke shrouds northern California from fires that were ignited after a freak lightning storm during the middle of the month.

Oak trees are senescencing much sooner this year. We had an unprecedented heat spell this month, over 40 C at Tonzi. Plus NO rain during Feb.

 

 

Submissions

Journal: JGR Atmospheres Evaluation of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height from Wind Profiling Radar and Slab Models and its Responses to Seasonality of Land Cover, Subsidence, and Advection Corresponding Author: Dr. Camilo Rey-Sanchez; co authors  Sonia Wharton, Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, Kyaw Tha Paw U, Kyle S. Hemes, Jose D. Fuentes, Jessica Osuna, J. Vinicius Ribeiro Joseph Verfaillie

 Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Title: Measuring surface temperatures in a woodland savanna: Opportunities and challenges of thermal imaging in an open-canopy ecosystem Ms. Miriam Johnston Co-Authors: Ana Andreu; Joseph Verfaillie; Dennis Baldocchi; Maria Gonzalez-Dugo; Paul Moorcroft

Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Title: Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements  to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions Corresponding Author: Dr. Manuel Helbig Co-Authors: Tobias Gerken; Eric Beamesderfer; Dennis D Baldocchi; Tirtha Banerjee; Sebastien C Biraud; William O J Brown; Nathaniel A Brunsell; Elizabeth A Burakowski; Sean P Burns; Brian J Butterworth; W Stephen Chan; Kenneth J Davis; Ankur R Desai; Jose D Fuentes; David Y Hollinger; Natascha Kljun; Matthias Mauder; Kimberly A Novick; John M Perkins; David A Rahn; Camilo Rey-Sanchez; Joseph A Santanello; Russell L Scott; Bijan Seyednasrollah; Paul C Stoy; Ryan C Sullivan; Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano; Sonia Wharton; Chuixiang Yi; Andrew D Richardson

July
Meetings

ddb participated on the Science Advisory Board meeting of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Earth and Environment Program.

ddb gave plenary talk How Long Term Flux Measurements have Contributed to our Understanding of Global Change Biology. OzFlux 20th Anniversary Virtual Meeting.

Publications

Pastorello, G., et al. (2020), The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, Scientific Data, 7(1), 225, doi:10.1038/s41597-020-0534-3. https://rdcu.be/b5vyt

 Baldocchi, D. D., et al. (2020), Outgoing Near Infrared Radiation from Vegetation Scales with Canopy Photosynthesis Across a Spectrum of Function, Structure, Physiological Capacity and Weather, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, e2019JG005534, doi:10.1029/2019jg005534.

 Ueyama, Masahito, Kazuhito Ichii, Hideki Kobayashi, Tomo’omi Kumagai, Jason Beringer, Lutz Merbold, Eugénie S. Euskirchen, Takashi Hirano, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Dennis Baldocchi, Taku M. Saitoh, Yasuko Mizoguchi, Keisuke Ono, Joon Kim, Andrej Varlagin, Minseok Kang, Takanori Shimizu, Yoshiko Kosugi, M. Syndonia Bret-Harte, Takashi Machimura, Yojiro Matsuura, Takeshi Ohta, Kentaro Takagi, Satoru Takanashi, and Yukio Yasuda. 2020. 'Inferring CO2 fertilization effect based on global monitoring land-atmosphere exchange with a theoretical model', Environmental Research Letters, 15: 084009. 10.1088/1748-9326/ab79e5

Diffenbaugh, N.S., Field, C.B., Appel, E.AThe COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System. Nat Rev Earth Environ<;(2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0079-1

Staff News

Tianxin 'Carlos' Wang joins the Biomet lab as a new graduate student.  Carlos received his BS from Cal State Monterey and is very interested in evaporation and upscaling with Ecostress.  He is currently mentored by Forrest Melton and making evaporation measurements over celery and grapes.

Submissions

After almost 2 years in production we finally finished and submitted a draft on 

Baldocchi, D.D., Ma.S, Verfaillie, J. On the Inter and Intra-annual Variability of Ecosystem Evaporation, Transpiration and Water Use Efficiency of an Oak Savanna and Annual Grassland Subjected to Booms and Busts in Rainfall, Global Change Biology

 The COVID-19 Lockdowns: A Window into the Earth System Noah Diffenbaugh, Christopher Field, Eric Appel, Ines Azevedo, Dennis Baldocchi, Marshall Burke, Jennifer Burney, Philippe Ciais, Steven Davis, Arlene Fiore, Sarah Fletcher, Thomas Hertel, Daniel Horton, Solomon Hsiang, Robert Jackson, Xiaomeng Jin, Margaret Levi, David Lobell, Galen McKinley, Frances Moore, Anastasia Montgomery, Kari C. Nadeau, Diane Pataki, James Randerson, Markus Reichstein, Jordan Schnell, Sonia Seneviratne, Deepti Singh, Allison Steiner, and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi. accepted for publication NATREVEARTHENVIRON-20-175B

 
 Impacts of vegetation phenology 1 on aerodynamic resistance and sensible heat flux: continental-scale synthesis using data from AmeriFlux and PhenoCam. Adam M. Young, Mark A. Friedl, Bijan Seyednasrollah, Eric Beamesderfer, Carlos M. Carrillo, Xiaolu Li, Minkyu Moon, M. Altaf Arain, Dennis D. Baldocchi, Peter D. Blanken Gil Bohrer, Sean P. Burns, Housen Chu, Ankur R. Desai, Timothy J. Griffis, David Y.Hollinger, Marcy E. Litvak, Kim Novick, Russell L. Scott, Andrew E. Suyker, Joseph Verfaillie, Jeffrey D. Wood, and Andrew D. Richardson Agricultural Forest Meteorology 
 
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Title: Moving beyond the incorrect but useful paradigm: reevaluating big-leaf and multilayer plant canopies to model biosphere-atmosphere fluxes – a review
Corresponding Author: Dr. Gordon Bonan
Co-Authors: Edward Patton; John Finnigan; Dennis Baldocchi; Ian Harman

June
Meetings

ddb gave the Fluxnet-Early Career Seminar on
The Trials and Tribulations of Measuring and Interpreting Carbon, Water and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes since 1978

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgBbxprMSbw&feature=youtu.be

Proposals

Ameriflux management project will be funded another 5 years. This is led by Margaret Torn et al at LBL

Publications

Liu, J., Zhou, Y., Valach, A., Shortt, R., Kasak, K., Rey‐Sanchez, C., Hemes, K.S., Baldocchi, D. and Lai, D.Y. (2020), Methane Emissions Reduce the Radiative Cooling Effect of a Subtropical Estuarine Mangrove Wetland by Half. Glob Change Biol. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1111/gcb.15247

Renato K. Braghiere, Tristan Quaife, Emily Black, Youngryel Ryu, Qi Chen, Martin G. De Kauwe, Dennis Baldocchi, Influence of sun zenith angle on canopy clumping and the resulting impacts on photosynthesis, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Volume 291, 2020, 108065, ISSN 0168-1923, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108065.

Amerflux White Paper: Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions through tower-based flux and continuous atmospheric boundary layer measurements. Manuel Helbig, Tobias Gerken, Eric Beamesderfer, Dennis D Baldocchi, Tirtha Banerjee, Sebastien C. Biraud, Nathaniel A. Brunsell, Sean P. Burns, Brian Butterworth, W. Stephen Chan, Ankur R. Desai, Jose D. Fuentes, David Y. Hollinger, Natascha Kljun, Matthias Mauder, Kimberley A. Novick, John M. Perkins, Camilo Rey-Sanchez, Russel L. Scott, Bijan Seyednasrollah, Paul C Stoy, Ryan C. Sullivan, Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, Sonia Wharton, Chuixiang Yi, Andrew D. Richardson

Submissions

Descals et al
Ms. Ref. No.: STOTEN-D-20-09119R1
Title: Soil thawing regulates the spring growth onset in tundra and alpine biomes  Journal: Science of the Total Environment. accepted for publication

May
Education-Outreach

Uploaded 2020 version of ecosystem ecology lectures, ESPM 111

Meetings

Kuno Kasak Tyler Anthony, Kyle Hemes, Alex Valach, Kit Kill, Ulo Maunder,Whendee Silver, Daphne Szutu, Joe Verfaillie, Dennis Baldocchi Variability of nitrogen-cycle microbial communities determined by the age of restored wetlands European Geophysical Union. Vienna, on line https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/EGU2020-12965.html

The spectrum of ecosystem functional properties 
Mirco Migliavacca, Talie Musavi, Miguel D. Mahecha, Jacob A. Nelson, Juergen Knauer, Dennis D. Baldocchi, Oscar Perez-Priego, and Markus Reichstein and the Ecosystem Functional Properties group
Mon, 04 May, 08:30–10:15 | D68
 
EGU2020-11925 On the relation between tree foliage clumping at the branch scale and light and water limitations 
Martin Beland and Dennis Baldocchi
Tue, 05 May, 16:15–18:00 | D649
 

EGU2020-5193 Disentangling ecosystem transpiration from evapotranspiration observations employing simplified vegetation-substrate energy balance model  Kaniska Mallick, Dennis Baldocchi, Andrew Jarvis, Ivonne Trebs, Mauro Sulis, and Joseph Berry Wed, 06 May, 08:30–10:15 | D627

Other

letter of the editor co signer


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/10/after-coronavirus-focus-on-the-climate-emergency?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Staff News

Former visiting student Jiangong Liu, of Honk Kong Univ amd his partner Amelie announced their marriage. Congratulations

Robert Shortt passed his Orals Qualifications. He is now a PhD Candidate.  Congratulations.

Submissions

Alex C. Valach, Kuno Kasak,  Kyle S Hemes,  Tyler Anthony; Iryna Dronova,; Sophie Taddeo, ; Whendee Silver, Daphne Szutu; Joseph Verfaillie; Dennis D Baldocchi  Linking Vegetation Cover and Structure to Net Ecosystem Exchange in heterogeneous Wetlands restored for Carbon Sequestration Agricultural Forest Meteorology AGRFORMET-D-20-00581

Synthesis of Carbon Flux Trajectories and Site Conditions from the Restoration of Impounded Marshes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Valach, Alex;Kasak, Kuno;  Hemes, Kyle;  Szutu, Daphne; Verfaillie, Joseph; Baldocchi, Dennis Wetland Carbon and Environmental Management AGU Book; K Kraus editor. Accepted for publication

 Bruce B. Hicks; Dennis D. Baldocchi. Measurement of fluxes over land – capabilities, origins, and remaining challenges. Boundary Layer Meteorology BOUN-D-20-00026 Accepted for publication  DOI: 10.1007/s10546-020-00531-y

"The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data" by Gilberto Pastorello, carlo trotta, Eleonora Canfora, Housen Chu, Danielle Christianson, YOU-WEI CHEAH, Cristina Poindexter, Jiquan Chen, Abdelrahman Elbashandy, Marty Humphrey, Peter Isaac, Diego Polidori, Alessio Ribeca, Catharine van Ingen, Leiming Zhang, Brian Amiro, Christof Ammann, Altaf Arain, Jonas Ardo, Timothy Arkebauer, Stefan Arndt, Nicola Arriga, Marc Aubinet, Mika Aurela, Dennis Baldocchi, Alan Barr, Eric Beamesderfer, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Onil Bergeron, Jason Beringer, Christian Bernhofer, Daniel Berveiller, Dave Billesbach, T. Andrew Black, Peter Blanken, Gil Bohrer, Julia Boike, Paul V. Bolstad, Damien Bonal, Jean-Marc Bonnefond, Dave Bowling, Rosvel Bracho, Jason Brodeur, Christian Brümmer, Nina Buchmann, Benoit Burban, Sean Burns, Pauline Buysse, Peter Cale, mauro cavagna, Pierre Cellier, Shiping Chen, Isaac Chini, Torben Christensen, James Cleverly, Alessio Collalti, Claudia Consalvo, Bruce Cook, David Cook, Carole Coursolle, Edoardo Cremonese, Peter Curtis, Ettore D'ANDREA, Humberto Rocha, Xiaoqin Dai, Kenneth Davis, bruno de cinti, Agnes de Grandcourt, Anne De Ligne, Raimundo Oliveira Junior, Nicolas Delpierre, Ankur Desai, Carlos Di Bella, Paul Di Tommasi, Albertus J. Dolman, Francisco Domingo, Gang Dong, Sabina Dore, Pierpaolo Duce, Eric Dufrêne, Allison Dunn, Jiří Dušek, Derek Eamus, Uwe Eichelmann, Hatim ElKhidir, Werner Eugster, Cacilia Ewenz, Brent E. Ewers, Daniela Famulari, Silvano Fares, Iris Feigenwinter, Andrew Feitz, Rasmus Fensholt, Gianluca Filippa, Marc Fischer, John Frank, Marta Galvagno, Mana Gharun, Damiano Gianelle, Bert Gielen, Beniamino Gioli, Anatoly Gitelson, Ignacio Goded, Mathias Gockede, Allen Goldstein, Christopher Gough, Michael Goulden, Alexander Graf, Anne Griebel, Carsten Gruening, Thomas Grünwald, Albin Hammerle,Shijie Han, Xingguo Han, Birger Hansen, Chad Hanson, Juha Hatakka, Yongtao He, Markus Hehn, Bernard Heinesch, Nina Hinko-Najera, Lukas Hörtnagl, Lindsay Hutley, Andreas Ibrom, Hiroki Ikawa, and Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski, Dalibor Janouš​, Wilma Jans​​, Rachhpal Jassal​, Shicheng Jiang​, Tomomichi Kato​, Myroslava Khomik​​, Janina Klatt​​, Alexander Knohl​​, Sara Knox​, Hideki Kobayashi​​, Georgia Koerber​​, Olaf Kolle​, Yoshiko Kosugi​, Ayumi Kotani​​, Andrew Kowalski​, Bart Kruijt​​, Julia Kurbatova​​, Werner L. Kutsch​, Hyojung Kwon​​, Samuli Launiainen​114​, Tuomas Laurila​​, Bev Law​​, Ray Leuning​​, Yingnian Li​, Michael Liddell​, Jean-Marc Limousin​​, Marryanna Lion​119​, Adam Liska​​, Annalea Lohila​​, Ana López-Ballesteros​​, Efrén López-Blanco​48​, Benjamin Loubet​, Denis Loustau​​, Antje Lucas-Moffat​​, Johannes Lüers​, Siyan Ma​, Craig Macfarlane​​, Vincenzo Magliulo​​, Regine Maier​​, Ivan Mammarella​​, Giovanni Manca​, Barbara Marcolla​​, Hank A. Margolis​​, Serena Marras​​, William Massman​, Mikhail Mastepanov​​, Roser Matamala​, Jaclyn Hatala Matthes​​, Francesco Mazzenga​​, Harry McCaughey​, Ian McHugh​​, Andrew M. S. McMillan​​, Lutz Merbold​​, Wayne Meyer​, Tilden Meyers​, Scott D. Miller​​, Stefano Minerbi​​, Uta Moderow​​, Russell K. Monson​​, Leonardo Montagnani​​, Caitlin E. Moore​​, Eddy Moors​​, Virginie Moreaux​​, Christine Moureaux​​, J. William Munger​, Taro Nakai​, Johan Neirynck​​, Zoran Nesic​, Giacomo Nicolini​​, Asko Noormets​​, Matthew Northwood​​, Marcelo Nosetto​​, Yann Nouvellon​, Kimberly Novick​​, Walter Oechel​​, Jørgen Eivind Olesen​, Jean-Marc Ourcival​, Shirley A. Papuga​​, Frans-Jan Parmentier​, Eugenie Paul-Limoges​​, Marian Pavelka​​, Matthias Peichl​, Elise Pendall​​, Richard P. Phillips​​, Kim Pilegaard​, Norbert Pirk​​, Gabriela Posse​, Thomas Powell​, Heiko Prasse​​, Suzanne M. Prober​​, Serge Rambal​, Üllar Rannik​​, Naama Raz-Yaseef​, David Reed​​, Victor Resco de Dios​, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe​, Borja R. Reverter, Marilyn Roland​​, Simone Sabbatini​​, Torsten Sachs​, Scott R. Saleska​​, Enrique P. Sánchez-Cañete​​, Zulia M. Sanchez-Mejia​, Hans Peter Schmid​​, Marius Schmidt​​, Karl Schneider​​, Frederik Schrader​​, Ivan Schroder, Russell L. Scott​​, Pavel Sedlák​, Penélope Serrano-Ortíz​, Changliang Shao​​, Peili Shi​​, Ivan Shironya​​, Lukas Siebicke​​, Ladislav Šigut​, Richard Silberstein​​, Costantino Sirca​, Donatella Spano​​, Rainer Steinbrecher​​, Robert M. Stevens​, Cove Sturtevant​, Andy Suyker​​, Torbern Tagesson​​, Satoru Takanashi​, Yanhong Tang​​, Nigel Tapper​, Jonathan Thom​, Frank Tiedemann​, Michele Tomassucci​, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen​, Shawn Urbanski​​, Riccardo Valentini​, Michiel van der Molen​​, Eva van Gorsel​​, Ko van Huissteden​​, Andrej Varlagin​​, Joseph Verfaillie​​, Timo Vesala​​, Caroline Vincke​​, Domenico Vitale​, Natalia Vygodskaya​​, Jeffrey P. Walker​, Elizabeth Walter-Shea​​, Huimin Wang​​, Robin Weber​​, Sebastian Westermann​​, Christian Wille​, Steven Wofsy​​, Georg Wohlfahrt​​, Sebastian Wolf​​, William Woodgate​​, Yuelin Li​​, Roberto Zampedri​​, Junhui Zhang​​, Guoyi Zhou​​, Donatella Zona​​, Deb Agarwal​, Sebastien Biraud​, Margaret Torn​, Dario Papale​ (Paper #SDATA-20-00216A), Scientific Data: Decision letter for SDATA-20-00216A Accepted for publication

2020GB006678, Modeled microbial dynamics explain the apparent temperature-sensitivity of wetland methane emissions, which has been submitted for possible publication in Global Biogeochemical Cycles.Sarah E. Chadburn, Tuula Aalto, Mika Aurela, Dennis Baldocchi, Christina Biasi, Julia Boike Eleanor J. Burke, Edward Comyn-Platt, A. Johannes Dolman, Carolina Duran-Rojas, Yuanchao Fan, Thomas Friborg, Yao Gao, Nicola Gedney, Mathias G ̈ockede, Garry D. Hayman, David Holl, Gustaf Hugelius, Lars Kutzbach, Hanna Lee, Annalea Lohila, Frans-Jan W. Parmentier,Torsten Sachs, Narasinha J. Shurpali, and Sebastian Westermann


 Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions" (reference number: NCLIM-20051240),to Nature Climate Change.Kuang-Yu Chang, William J. Riley, Sara H. Knox, Robert B. Jackson, Gavin McNicol, Benjamin Poulter, Mika Aurela, Dennis Baldocchi, Sheel Bansal, Gil Bohrer, David I. Campbell, Alessandro Cescatti, Housen Chu, Kyle B. Delwiche, Ankur Desai, Eugenie Euskirchen13, Thomas Friborg, Mathias Goeckede15, Manuel Helbig, Kyle S. Hemes, Takashi Hirano, Hiroki Iwata, Minseok Kang, Trevor Keenan, Ken W. Krauss, Annalea Lohila, Ivan Mammarella, Bhaskar Mitra Akira Miyata, Mats B. Nilsson, Asko Noormets, Walter C. Oechel, Dario Papale,Matthias Peichl, Michele L. Reba,  Janne Rinne, Benjamin R. K. Runkle,Youngryel Ryu, Torsten Sachs, Karina V. R. Schäfer, Hans Peter Schmid, Narasinha Shurpali, Oliver Sonnentag, Angela C. I. Tang, Margaret S. Torn, Carlo Trotta, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, Masahito Ueyama, Rodrigo Vargas, Timo Vesala, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Zhen Zhang, and Donatella Zona

(italics Biomet Alumni)

 The COVID-19 Lockdowns: A Window into the Earth System Noah S. Diffenbaugh , Christopher B. Field , Eric Appel , Ines Azevedo , Dennis Baldocchi , Marshall Burke , Jennifer Burney , Philippe Ciais , Steven J. Davis , Arlene M. Fiore , Sarah Fletcher , Thomas Hertel , Daniel E. Horton , Solomon Hsiang , Robert B.Jackson , Xiaomeng Jin , Margaret Levi , David Lobell , Galen A. McKinley , Frances C. Moore, Anastasia Montgomery , Kari C. Nadeau , Diane Pataki , James T. Randerson ,Markus Reichstei Jordan Schnell , Sonia I. Seneviratne , Deepti Singh , Allison Steiner ,ParodiJOURNAL: Nature MANUSCRIPT TYPE: Perspective

 

The global spectrum of ecosystem function 1 Mirco Migliavacca, Talie Musavi, Miguel D. Mahecha, Jacob A. Nelson, Jürgen  Knauer, Dennis D. Baldocchi, Oscar Perez-Priego, Karen Anderson, Michael Bahn, Andrew T. Black, Peter D. Blanken, Damien Bonal, Nina Buchmann, Silvia Caldararu, Arnaud Carrara, Alessandro Cescatti, Jiquan Chen, James Cleverly, Edoardo Cremonese, Ankur R. Desai, Tarek S. El- Madany, Gianluca Filippa, Matthias Forkel, Marta Galvagno, Christopher M. Gough, Mathias Göckede1, Andreas Ibrom, Hiroki Ikawa, Ivan Janssens, Martin Jung, Jens Kattge, Trevor F. Keenan, Alexander Knohl, Hideki Kobayashi, Guido  Kraemer, Beverly E. Law, Michael J. Liddell, Xuanlong Ma, Ivan Mammarella, David Martini, Craig MacFarlaine, Giorgio Matteucci, Leonardo Montagnani, Daniel E. Pabon-Moreno, Cinzia Panigada, Dario Papale, Elise Pendall, Josep Penuelas, Richard P. Phillips, Peter B. Reich, Micol Rossini, Russell L. Scott, Martha M. Gebhardt, Clement Stahl, Georg  Wohlfahrt, Sebastian Wolf, Ian J. Wright, Dan Yakir, Sönke Zaehle, and Markus Reichstein Nature Revision. 2019-10-16422A

 AGRFORMET-D-19-01135R2, Influence of sun zenith angle on canopy clumping and the resulting impacts on photosynthesis, by Renato Braghiere,; Tristan Quaife,; Emily Black,; Youngryel Ryu,; Qi Chen,; Martin De Kauwe,  Dennis Baldocchi,., has been accepted for publication in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 



April
Education-Outreach

ddb lectured on the Physics and Ecology of Mining Carbon from the Atmosphere by Ecosystems in Peter Raymond's Yale School of Forestry and Environment graduate Climate Change Seminar

Publications

Baldocchi, D. D.,  Ryu, Y.,  Dechant, B.,  Eichelmann, E.,  Hemes, K.,  Ma, S., et al ( 2020).  Outgoing Near Infrared Radiation from Vegetation Scales with Canopy Photosynthesis Across a Spectrum of Function, Structure, Physiological Capacity and Weather. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences,  125 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005534

Fisher, J. B., et al. (2020), ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station, Water Resources Research, 56(4), e2019WR026058, doi:10.1029/2019wr026058.

 Arias-Ortiz, A., Masqué, P., Glass, L. et al. Losses of Soil Organic Carbon with Deforestation in Mangroves of Madagascar. Ecosystems (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00500-z

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-020-00500-z

 Our research, published in Water Resources Research, is among the top 10% most downloaded papers!

 

Staff News

Tianxin 'Carlos' Wang from Cal State Monterey was admitted to the 2020 class of ESPM graduate students.  He will join the Biomet lab.  Carlos has interests in measuring and modeling evaporation of crops. We envision him working on the ECOSTRESS project

Kanishka Malick learned that his Mobility grant has been approved by the Luxembourg Research foundation.

Model-based evaluatiON of ecosystem trAnSpiration and canopy-stomatal conducTance by integratIng eddy Covariance and ECOSTRESS data - MONASTIC 

Kanishsk will visit the Biomet lab a number of times over the next few years and ddb will spend a 3 month sabbatical at his institute in Luxembourg during spring 2022.

Submissions

Iryna Dronova; Sophie Taddeo; Kyle S Hemes; Alex Valach; Sara H Knox; Patricia Y Oikawa; Kuno Kasak; Dennis D Baldocchi Phenological heterogeneity of restored wetlands: linking vegetation structure and function AGRFORMET-D-20-00412

Linking Vegetation Cover and Structure to Net Ecosystem Exchange in 1 heterogeneous Wetlands restored for Carbon Sequestration A.C. Valach K. Kasak K.S. Hemes, T. L. Anthony, I. Dronova S. Taddeo, W. L. Silver, D. Szutu J. Verfaillie and D. Baldocchi

Lorenzo Rosa Daniel Sanchez; Giulia Realmonte; Dennis Baldocchi; Paolo D'Odorico The global water footprint of large-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage technologies under stringent climate policy Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews

March
Staff News

Ddb was at an ERC meeting in Brussels during the first of the month. During his last day there he got to join a Climate March with Greta Thornberg.

ddb was interviewed by SFGATE for on article on  SF air pollution is 38% lower than normal, but will it last?

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/air-pollution-lower-coronavirus-impact-sf-15144196.php#

 Corona Virus is plaguing the world, nation and state. March 9. Campus is closed, lectures are proceeding by zoom and the biometlab is working in isolation at their homes.  Unsure how long this will last.

Submissions

Methane Emissions Reduce the Radiative Cooling Effect of a Subtropical Estuarine Mangrove Wetland by Half" by Liu, Jiangong; Zhou, Yulun; Valach, Alex; Shortt, Robert; Kasak, Kuno; Rey-Sanchez, Camilo; Hemes, Kyle; Baldocchi, Dennis; Lai, Derrick. Global Change Biology

"Phenological heterogeneity of restored wetlands: linking vegetation structure and function" Iryna Dronova; Sophie Taddeo; Kyle S Hemes; Alex Valach; Sara H Knox; Patricia Y Oikawa; Kuno Kasak; Dennis D Baldocchi AGRFORMET-D-20-00412.

Synthesis of Carbon Flux Trajectories and Site Conditions from the Restoration of Impounded Marshes in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Valach, Alex;Kasak, Kuno;  Hemes, Kyle;  Szutu, Daphne; Verfaillie, Joseph; Baldocchi, Dennis Wetland Carbon and Environmental Management AGU Books K Kraus editor

February
Meetings

ddb and Camilo Rey-Sanchez attended the NASA Ecostress PI meeting in Ventura. ddb gave a presentation on the biomet lab proposal. Camilo gave a hot talk on his footprint analysis of Ecostress 70 m ET products vs what we are measuring in our flux footprints

Carbon Sequestration in Wetlands: a cross Comparison of Intact and Restored, Tidal and Non-tidal Freshwater Wetlands. Ariane Arias Ortiz, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States; University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Adina Paytan, UCSC-Inst Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Pere Masqué, Edith Cowan University, School of Science, Joondalup, WA, Australia and Dennis D Baldocchi, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States. AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting. San Diego, Ca Feb 2020.

Proposals

Submitted proposal to DOE FOA-0002184, Environmental System Science:  Measuring Methane Fluxes from Wetlands: Using a Meso-Network of Sites to Explore Hot Spots and Hot Moments. 

Staff News

Our new Hemes et al JGR Biogeoscience paper is an EOS Research Highlight 

Submissions

Bruce B. Hicks; Dennis D. Baldocchi. Measurement of fluxes over land – capabilities, origins, and remaining challenges. Boundary Layer Meteorology BOUN-D-20-00026

Inferring CO2 fertilization effect based on global monitoring land-atmosphere exchange with a theoretical model" by Ueyama, Masahito; Ichii, Kazuhito; Kobayashi, Hideki; Kumagai, Tomo’omi; Beringer, Jason; Merbold, Lutz; Euskirchen, Eugenie; Hirano, Takashi; Belelli Marchesini, Luca; Baldocchi, Dennis; Saitoh, Taku; Mizoguchi, Yasuko; Ono, Keisuke; Kim, Joon; Varlagin, Andrej; Kang, Minseok; Shimizu, Takanori; Kosugi, Yoshiko ; Bret-Harte, Marion; Machimura, Takashi; Matsuura, Yojiro; Ohta, Takeshi; Takagi, Kentaro; Takanashi, Satoru; Yasuda, Yukio. Environmental Research Letters, ERL-107935.R3 Accepted for publication

January
Education-Outreach

Ddb gave 7 lectures at a short course on Biosphere Atmosphere Interactions, organized by the University of Chile. Topics covered include energy balance, radiation, wind and turbulence, boundary layers and eddy covariance.  The short course was held in Frutillar, Chile.  12 post graduate students from Chile, Mozambique, Peru and Costa Rica were in attendance.

https://www.uchile.cl/portal/facultades-e-institutos/cs-agronomicas/147347/postgraduate-summer-school

Meetings

ddb gave a seminar on Lessons Learned from Fluxnet at the University of Chile.  He met a group of scientists interested in setting up a flux tower near the southern tip of the continent, near Cape Horn, Puerto William. They are associated with the Sub Antarctic Bicultural Conservation Program, University of Magallanes.  This was a great opportunity to outreach with potential and future Ameriflux partners and extend the range of AmeriFlux towers across the Americas.

Publications

Kattge, J.,...Baldocchi, D..Ma, S..,  et al. TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access, Global Change Biology, doi:10.1111/gcb.14904.

Hemes, K, Verfaillie, J, Baldocchi, D. Wildfire-smoke aerosols lead to increased light use efficiency among agricultural and restored wetland land uses in California's Central Valley. Journal Geophysical Research, Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005380

Keno Kasak, Valach C Alex,  Camilo Rey-Sanchez, ; Keit Kill,  Robert Shortt,  Jiangong Liu, Iryna Dronova,Ülo Mander, Daphne Szutu, Joseph Verfaillie, Dennis D Baldocchi,  Experimental harvesting of wetland plants to evaluate trade-offs between reducing methane emissions and removing nutrients accumulated to the biomass in constructed wetlands Science of the Total Environment  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136960

Research

Biomet lab moved one of the flux towers from East Pond on Twitchell Island to upwind of the Sherman Island restored wetland. Our goal is to study a more developed patch of tules and cattails

Staff News

Ana Andreu Mendez is ending her 2 year sojourn in the BiometLab as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow from Cordoba, Spain. We thank her for her contributions to the lab and wish her success in her next stage of life.

Submissions

Alex Valach Daphne Szutu; Dennis D Baldocchi; Iryna Dronova; Joseph Verfaillie; Kuno Kasak; Kyle S Hemes; Sophie Taddeo; Tyler Anthony; Whendee Silver. How Ecosystem Dynamics of Restoration Influence Carbon Fluxes of Freshwater Wetlands  Science of the Total Environment.