News 2023
DecemberEducation-Outreach
Gave an interview on climate change and solutions to two high school students from Long Beach Polytechnic High School. They asked very pertinent questions. Told me rhey were 9th graders
Meetings
AGU
B54A-06Carbon Biogeochemical Cycling in Tidal Wetlands: Exploring Lateral Carbon Exchange and Sequestration Potential
Ariane Arias Ortiz1, Daphne J. Szutu2, Joseph G Verfaillie2, Tianxin Wang3, Robert Shortt2, Adina Paytan4 and Dennis D Baldocchi5,
GC51L-0762Dynamic Methane Emission Responses to Wetland Restoration
Kyle B Delwiche, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Maoya Bassiouni, SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, Dennis D Baldocchi, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States and Trevor F Keenan, L
A13M-2350Evaluating Urban VOC Emission Sources Using Eddy Covariance Flux Measurements in Berkeley, California
Erin Katz1, Caleb Arata1, Eva Y. Pfannerstill2, Robin J Weber3, Daphne J. Szutu1, Joseph G Verfaillie4, Dennis D Baldocchi5 and Allen H Goldstein1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of California, Berkeley, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States
B41D-03Leveraging ground lidar to measure forest canopy structure, and model its effects on canopy reflectance
Martin Beland, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Hideki Kobayashi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, RIGC, Kanagawa, Japan and Dennis D Baldocchi,
B42B-02Detection and Attribution of Dryland Respiration Pulses in Eddy Covariance Measurements
Ngoc Bao Nguyen1, Mirco Migliavacca2, Julia K. Green3, Maoya Bassiouni1, Laureano Gherardi1, Dennis D Baldocchi1, Trevor F Keenan1,4, Dario Papale5 and Alessandro Cescatti6, (1)
B43H-2657Quantifying the variation between site-specific soil water retention curves and the importance of soil water potential for predicting ecosystem flux
Daniel Patrick Beverly1, Alex Crookshanks1, Sebastien Biraud2, Dennis D Baldocchi3, Gil Bohrer4, Steven Kannenberg5, Marcy E Litvak6, Russell Scott7, Jeffrey D Wood8, Christopher J Still9, Beverly Elizabeth Law10, Chad V Hanson10, Linnia R Hawkins11, Richard P Phillips12 and Kimberly A Novick
B44C-05Don't be a drag, just be a queen: the reign of surface energy balance under advection
Tianxin Wang1, Joe Alfieri2, Kaniska Mallick Sr.3, Ariane Arias Ortiz4, Martha Anderson5, Joshua B. Fisher6, Manuela Girotto7, Daphne J. Szutu8, Joseph G Verfaillie7 and Dennis D Baldocchi9
IN41C-0599Data attribution: Use cases and challenges from the AmeriFlux perspective
You-Wei Cheah1, Danielle S Christianson1, Gilberto Pastorello2, Housen Chu1, Fianna O'Brien2, Sy Toan Ngo1, Stephen Chan2, Sigrid Dengel1, André Santos1, Christin Buechner1, Dario Papale3, Dennis D Baldocchi4, Sebastien Biraud2, Deb Agarwal1 and Margaret S Torn2,
B34C-07Summer aridity decouples growth from carbon assimilation in temperate oaks
Mukund Palat Rao1, Arturo Pacheco-Solana2, Johanna Jensen3, Rong Li4, Kevin Lee Griffin5, Neil Pederson6, M. Luke McCormack7, Joseph G Verfaillie8, Xi Yang9, Dennis D Baldocchi10, Laia Andreu-Hayles11, Bar Oryan12, Jeremy Hise13, Troy Nixon14, Milagros Rodriguez-Caton15, Alexander J Turner16, Jan Eitel17, Atefeh Hosseini18, Zoe Pierrat19, Josep Penuelas1 and Troy Magney20, (1)B44C-07: Pixel-Wise Footprint Analysis of GPP Using High-Resolution NDVI/NIRv Data Robert Shortt, University of California Berkeley (First Author, Presenting Author), Joe Verfaillie, Ariane Arias Ortiz, Kyle Delwiche, Dennis Baldocchi
Publications
Jessica L. Richardson, Ankur R. Desai, Jonathan Thom, Kim Lindgren, Hjalmar Laudon, Matthias Peichl, Mats Nilsson, Audrey Campeau, Järvi Järveoja, Peter Hawman, Deepak R. Mishra, Dontrece Smith, Brenda D’Acunha, Sara H. Knox, Darian Ng, Mark S. Johnson, Joshua Blackstock, Sparkle L. Malone, Steve F. Oberbauer, Matteo Detto, Kimberly P. Wickland, Inke Forbrich, Nathaniel Weston, Jacqueline K. Y. Hung, Colin Edgar, Eugenie S. Euskirchen, Syndonia Bret-Harte, Jason Dobkowski, George Kling, Evan S. Kane, Pascal Badiou, Matthew Bogard, Gil Bohrer, Thomas O’Halloran, Jonny Ritson, Ariane Arias-Ortiz, Dennis Baldocchi, Patty Oikawa, Julie Shahan & Maiyah Matsumura 2023: On the Relationship Between Aquatic CO2 Concentration and Ecosystem Fluxes in Some of the World’s Key Wetland Types. Wetlands, 44, 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01751-x
Nice collaboration with 5 Biometters as co authors
Research
Former Postdocs, Kuno Kasak and Ariane Arias-Ortiz, are in town and are leading field soil sampling surveys at the Delta sites to get new infomoration on links between soil chemistry,methane and N2O emissions and the genomics of the soils
VisitorsNovember
Dr Yun Yang from Mississippi State visited and discussed her work on remote sensing of evaporation.
Prof. Paul Moorcroft from Harvard is stopping by pre AGU.
Kuno Kasak is in town from Tartuu, Estonia
Ariane Arias Ortiz in in town from Barcelona
Welcome all
Education-Outreach
Lectured on the Physics and Ecology of mining CO2 from the atmosphere by plants to Andy van Looke's Agronomy 180 class at Iowa State
https://catalog.iastate.edu/search/?P=AGRON%20180
Robert Shortt,Daphne Szutu and ddb visited a science class at Antioch High School and gave a lecture on the Delta and our work there. The program is sponsored by https://www.biotechpartners.org/
ddb gave a presentation on the Delta and our wetland carbon flux measurements to the Rossmoor Rotary club
Meetings
Robert Shortt is attending the https://conference.cerf.science/ in Portland. He will give a talk on Evaluating indices at various spatial scales: An exploration of canopy phenology using flux footprints
ddb gave a presentation at the Legislative Delta Tour. Organized by the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Watermaster, Delta Conservancy and Delta Protection Commission November 15, 2023
Publications
Bansal, S., Creed, I.F., Tangen, B.A., Bridgham, S.D., Desai, A.R., Krauss, K.W., Neubauer, S.C., Noe, G.B., Rosenberry, D.O., Trettin, C., Wickland, K.P., Allen, S.T., Arias-Ortiz, A., Armitage, A.R., Baldocchi, D., Banerjee, K., Bastviken, D., Berg, P., Bogard, M., Chow, A.T., Conner, W.H., Craft, C., Creamer, C., DelSontro, T., Duberstein, J.A., Eagle, M., Fennessy, M.S., Finkelstein, S.A., Göckede, M., Grunwald, S., Halabisky, M., Herbert, E., Jahangir, M.M.R., Johnson, O.F., Jones, M.C., Kelleway, J.J., Knox, S., Kroeger, K.D., Kuehn, K.A., Lobb, D., Loder, A.L., Ma, S., Maher, D.T., McNicol, G., Meier, J., Middleton, B.A., Mills, C., Mistry, P., Mitra, A., Mobilian, C., Nahlik, A.M., Newman, S., O’Connell, J.L., Oikawa, P., Post van der Burg, M., Schutte, C.A., Song, C., Stagg, C.L., Turner, J., Vargas, R., Waldrop, M.P., Wallin, M.B., Wang, Z.A., Ward, E.J., Willard, D.A., Yarwood, S., and Zhu, X. 2023. Practical guide to measuring wetland carbon pools and fluxes. Wetlands (Mark Brinson Review). 43:105 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01722-2
Staff News
Ddb is among Clarivarates highly cited scientists in 2023
More important is that two of our alumni, Youngryel Ryu and Josh Fisher, joined this list too.. congratulations. Great to see Biometlab members producing highly impactful papers, which are among the top 1% of their field for the year published going back a decade
Submissions
Submitted a Nature Water News and Views article on 'Towards Sharing Water Better, With Near-Real Time Maps on Evaporative Water Use by Crops and Natural Vegetation' with Kanishka Mallick. It was for a review of a pending paper on the OpenET project
Submitted AmeriFlux: Its Impact on our Understanding of the ‘Breathing of the Biosphere’, circa 2023" has been received by Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. AGRFORMET-D-23-01759. With Kim Novick, Trevor Keenan and Margaret Torn. It is an invited review for the 60th anniversary of AgForMet
Arias Ortiz et al Methane Fluxes in Tidal Marshes of the Contiguous United States: A Synthesis of Fluxes and Analysis of Predictor Variables. Global Change Biology GCB 23-2857
Multiple microbial guilds mediate soil methane cycling along a wetland salinity gradient" by Wyatt Hartman, Clifton Bueno de Mesquita, Susanna Theroux, Connor Morgan-Lang, Dennis Baldocchi, and Susannah Tringe [Paper #mSystems00936-23R2] Accepted!!!!
VisitorsOctober
Jo Owens a graduate student from the Centre for Applied Climate Sciences, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. She is involved with the Australian TERN program and OZflux. We took her on a tour to Tonzi and Vaira ranches and she gave a lab seminar on her work in the savanna of Australia.
Einara Zahn from Princeton stopped to visit. She is a recent Phd Eli Bou-Zeid's environmental fluid mechanics lab
http://efm.princeton.edu/
She focuses on LES, ET flux partitioning, variance method etc. She is based in Palo Alto
https://engineering.princeton.edu/princeton-engineer/einara-zahn
Meetings
The Ameriflux annual meeting is being held at Harvard Forest. Robert Shortt is in attendance and Daphne and ddb are joining virtually. Great to see many alumni at the meeting and giving presentations or leading sessions (Jackie Hatala Mathes, Sara Knox, Patty Oikawa, Rodrigo Vargas, Housen Chu, Alex Valach).
Robert Shortt gave a poster presentation
Robert Shortt Pixel-Wise Footprint Analysis of GPP Using High-Resolution NDVI/NIRv Data Robert Shortt [1], Dennis Baldocchi [1], Joseph Verfaille [1]
After the meeting he went to Columbia and gave this presentation at the Pierre Gentine lab
Carlos Wang is attended the Ecostress meeting in Ventura and gave a presentation on Chasing closure, advection schemes: want that Bad Romance in the atmospheric
Robert and ddb attended the Delta Science Independent Science board meeting in Sacramento. Ddb served on the biogeochemical process panel discuss group and gave a 10 minute presentation on our greenhouse gas work with regards to stopping and reversing subsidence.
Publications
Ruehr, S., M. Girotto, J. G. Verfaillie, D. Baldocchi, A. Cabon, and T. F. Keenan (2023), Ecosystem groundwater use enhances carbon assimilation and tree growth in a semi-arid Oak Savanna, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 342, 109725, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109725.
Staff News
Arman Ahmadi joined the Biomet lab as a new postdoc.Arman just received his PhD from UC Davis, specializing in water use of crops based on CIMIS data. He is expert in machine learning and will bring new skills and insights to the lab. Welcome
Unfortunately, Atefeh Hosseini is taking a permanent job at Campbell. So she will not be joining the lab as expected
VisitorsSeptember
Gordon Bonan from NCAR was in town and stopped to visit. Had a lively conversation on clumping, philosophy of modeling land atmosphere interactions and writing textbooks. Got him to sign my 2 copies of Bonan books
Education-Outreach
Our Dutch Slough work was covered in a recent article in the San Jose Mercury News
and this article even got a mention in the NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/us/california-love-letters.html?searchResultPosition=1
Publications
Chu, Housen, Danielle S. Christianson, You-Wei Cheah, Gilberto Pastorello, Fianna O’Brien, Joshua Geden, Sy-Toan Ngo, Rachel Hollowgrass, Karla Leibowitz, Norman F. Beekwilder, Megha Sandesh, Sigrid Dengel, Stephen W. Chan, André Santos, Kyle Delwiche, Koong Yi, Christin Buechner, Dennis Baldocchi, Dario Papale, Trevor F. Keenan, Sébastien C. Biraud, Deborah A. Agarwal, and Margaret S. Torn. 2023. 'AmeriFlux BASE data pipeline to support network growth and data sharing', Scientific Data, 10: 614. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02531-2
Submissions
Alternating Conditional Expectations: A Non-Parametric Statistical Method to Interpret Long-term Greenhouse Gas Flux Measurements over Natural Ecosystems. Dennis Baldocchi and Ariane Arias Ortiz, JGR Biogeoscience
How advection affects the surface energy balance and plays a role in its closure at an irrigated alfalfa field
Tianxin Wang, Joseph Alfieri, Kanishka Mallick, Ariane Arias Ortiz, Martha Anderson, Joshua Fisher, Manuela Girotto, Daphne Szutu, Joseph Verfaillie, and Dennis Baldocchi. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
VisitorsAugust
Jiangong Liu, from Columbia, gave a lab seminar on circadian rhythms in plants and how it affects CO2 fluxes. He introduced us to Shapley functions as a non parametric method to quantify isolated response functions of multivariate responses.
Jordi Vila from Wageningen stopped by to visit on his way to a workshop at UC Davis. Always fun to talk science and exchange ideas
Alex Knohl had his last day of his sabbatical in the Biomet lab. He returns to Goettingen and back to the real world. Having Alex in the lab for nearly 3 months was inspirational to the students and postdocs; working on oil palm, deciduous forests, CO2, H2O and O2 fluxes. We all learned a lot from Alex during his visit and look forward to future collaborations.
Education-Outreach
Our research and outreach with the Dutch Slough and Knightsen school was profiled by the Delta Council
https://deltacouncil.ca.gov/blogs/extending-the-impact-of-research-beyond-the-science-itself
Publications
Klinek, Lily, Jessie Au, Christopher Y. S. Wong, Troy S. Magney, and Dennis Baldocchi. 2023. 'A soil-air temperature model to determine the start of season phenology of deciduous forests', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 341: 109638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109638
Research
Robert organize the second acquisition of LIDAR data from across our delta wetland site. This is the green season
The new LICOR CO2/CH4 soil gas exchange system arrived and the team made some initial measurements at our field sites.
NKIRA has set up their novel H2O sensor at our alfalfa site. We will compare its performance with our LICOR open path NDIR. This project is supported by a SBIR NKIRA has from DOE https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/2282969
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The analyzers use tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy to make real-time, first-principles measurements of both parameters with no memory effects. The prototype, which measured 30 x 17 x 20 cm, weighed 2.2 kg, and used < 10 Watts, provided a precision of better than ±15 ppm and ±0.24 K (1?, 100 Hz) for gas concentration and temperature respectively with excellent linearity.
Submissions
Coupling between lateral and vertical CO2 exchange in some of the world’s key wetland types. Turner, J., Desai, A.R., Thom, J., Lindgren, K., Laudon, H., Peichl, M., Nilsson, M., Campeau, A., Järveoja, J., Hawman, P., Mishra, D.R., Smith, D., D’Acunha, B., Knox, S.H., Ng, D. Johnson, M.S., Blackstock, J., Malone, S. L., Oberbauer, S.F., Detto,M., Wickland, K.P., Forbrich, I., Weston, N., Hung, J.K.Y., Edgar, C., Euskirchen, E.S., Bret-Harte, S., Dobkowski, J., Kling, G., Kane, E.S., Badiou, P., Bogard, M., Bohrer, G., O’Halloran, T.19, Ritson, J., Arias-Ortiz, A., Baldocchi, D.,Oikawa, P., Shahan, J. Wetlands
AmeriFlux BASE data pipeline to support network growth and data sharing. Scientific Data. Housen Chu, Danielle S. Christianson, You-Wei Cheah, Gilberto Pastorello, Fianna O’Brien, Joshua Geden, Sy-Toan Ngo, Rachel Hollowgrass, Karla Leibowitz, Norman F. Beekwilder, Megha Sandesh, Sigrid Dengel, Stephen W. Chan, André Santos, Kyle Delwiche, Koong Yi, Christin Buechner1, Dennis Baldocchi, Dario Papale, Trevor F. Keenan, Sébastien C. Biraud, Deborah A. Agarwal, and Margaret S. Torn
VisitorsJuly
Alex Knohl from Goettingen Univ gave a wonderful seminar to the lab on his work on carbon, N2O, CH4 and energy fluxes over oil palm plantations in Indonesia. Also made connections to social and land use issues. Check out his work. Lots of first rate pubs
Jose Fuentes, from Penn State, will be resident in the Biomet and D'Odorico Labs for this semester, while he is a Miller Fellow
Jiangong Liu, from Columbia and Pierre Gentine's lab, is in residence. Jiangong was a former visiting student from Hong Kong, working on methane exchange of mangrove. He is now using machine learning methods to student fluxnet data
Education-Outreach
Posted Berkeley Blog on Reflections on the Weather Mayhem of the Summer of 2023
https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2023/07/28/reflections-on-the-weather-mayhem-of-the-summer-of-2023-we-told-you-so-now-what/
Gave lecture on Pninciples and Fundamentals of Water for the Bearhs Environmental Leadership Program, on campus. About 30 students, early to mid career environmental managers and practiioners were in attendance from all over the world
Meetings
ddb attended zoom meeting on Oak Woodland Conservation Workgroup Meeting
Fluxnet Meeting Brno, Czech Republic
Robert Shortt and Kyle Delwiche attended and gave either talks or posters
Opportunities for Pixel-Wise Footprint Analysis Using High-Resolution Drone Data
Robert Shortt (E)Information flows to elucidate methane flux dynamics in restored wetlands. Delwiche, Kyle (kdelwiche@berkeley.edu); Bassiouni, Maoya; Baldocchi, Dennis; Keenan, Trevor University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Kanisk Mallick attended the IGARSS meeting in Pasadena and gave a presentation
MO1.R6.2: Putting Biology with Physics in Thermal Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Evaporation and Implications for the Future LST Missions
Kanishka Mallick, Tian Hu, Mauro Sulis, Patrik Hitzelberger, Christian Bossung, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg; Dennis Baldocchi, Tianxin Wang, Joseph Verfaillie, Daphne Szutu, University of California, Berkeley, United States; Gilles Boulet, Jean-Louis Roujean, CESBIO, France; Albert Olioso, INRAE, France; Philippe Gamet, CNES, France; Chiara Corbari, Marco Mancini, POLIMI, Italy; Hector Nieto, ICA, Spain; Nishan Bhattarai, University of Oklahoma, United States; Zoltan Szantoi, European Space Agency, Italy; Bimal Bhattacharya, Space Applications Centre, India; Glynn Hulley, Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Simon Hook, NASA, JPL, United States
ddb attended, virtually, the national meeting of directors for the Cooperative Ecosystems Study Unit, held in West Virgina.
ddb participated in the meeting on New Horizons in Environmental Mechanics, a Festschrift in Honour of John Finnigan, held in Boulder, CO at NCAR. He gave a presentation on Land Atmosphere Interactions
ddb particiapated in the ANR Program Council Meeting at the Southcoast research and extension center, Irvine, CA
Kaniska Mallick gave an Ameriflux Webinar on Link between flux and optical measurements
SubmissionsJune
Lily Klinek, Jessie Au, Christopher YS Wong, Troy S Magney, Dennis Baldocchi A soil-air temperature model to determine the start of season phenology of deciduous forests. Agricultural Forest Meteorology, revised
Sheel Banshel et al. Practical Guide to Measuring Wetland Carbon Pools and Fluxes Wetlands, Accepted
Education-Outreach
D. Baldocchi met with legistaltive aids of Congresswomen Matsui, from Sacramento, Alia Hidayat and Adam Mc Bride, to provide scientific background about natural climate solutions, wetlands, methods of assessment etc.
Carlos Wang is mentoring Destinee Whitaker, an environmental science major, from Spelman College as part of the summer Research research program for Historically Black College and University Research Experience for Undergraduates
https://e3s-center.berkeley.edu/education-diversity/education/undergraduate/hbcu-reu-summer-research-experience-hbcu-undergraduates/
ddb attended the Colorado Flux Course at Nederland/Niowt Ridge, CO and lectured on the principles of eddy covariance.
Robert, Daphne and Kyle are giving a presentation to Cal EPA in San Francisco about our wetland Delta work for greenhouse gas mitigation
Meetings
Ddb attended Harvard Continental Climate Workshop June 15-16, 2023 and gave a presentation on Measuring and interpreting eddy covariance flux measurements on field to landscape scales
Publications
Tianxin Carlos Wang is a coauthor on
Volk, J. M., J. L. Huntington, F. Melton, B. Minor, T. Wang, S. Anapalli, R. G. Anderson, S. Evett, A. French, R. Jasoni, N. Bambach, W. P. Kustas, J. Alfieri, J. Prueger, L. Hipps, L. McKee, S. J. Castro, M. M. Alsina, A. J. McElrone, M. Reba, B. Runkle, M. Saber, C. Sanchez, E. Tajfar, R. Allen, and M. Anderson. 2023. 'Post-processed data and graphical tools for a CONUS-wide eddy flux evapotranspiration dataset', Data in Brief, 48: 109274.
Submissions
Kaniska Mallick, Ph.D, Joseph Verfaillie, Tianxin Wang, Ariane Arias Ortiz, Daphne Szutu, Robert Shortt, Tian Hu, Mauro Sulis, Zoltan Szantoi, Gilles Boulet, Joshua Fisher, Dennis Baldocchi. 2023 Enigma of Photosynthetically Active Radiation in Assessing Vegetation Index, Near- infrared Reflectance, and Productivity Variability Across Ecosystems and Climatic Gradients Remote Sensing of the Environment
Housen Chu, Danielle S. Christianson, You-Wei Cheah, Gilberto Pastorello, Fianna O’Brien, Joshua Geden, Sy-Toan Ngo, Rachel Hollowgrass, Karla Leibowitz, Norman F. Beekwilder, Megha Sandesh, Sigrid Dengel, Stephen W. Chan, André Santos, Kyle Delwiche, Koong Yi, Christin Buechner, Dennis Baldocchi, Dario Papale, Trevor F. Keenan, Sébastien C. Biraud , Deborah A. Agarwal, and Margaret S. Torn,AmeriFlux BASE data pipeline to support network growth and data sharing. Scientific Data
VisitorsMay
Sebastian Wolf, from ETH Zurich, is stopping by for his annual visit as he goes up to Sagehen field site in the Sierra and services his site
Alexander Knohl from Georg August Universitat Goettingen has arrived and will spend his summer sabbatical in the biomet lab.
Education-Outreach
The Biomet Lab is featured in the Rausser College of Natural Resources Spring Breakthroughs Magazine in its story on the Future of Water
https://nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/sp23/future-of-water
Meetings
Carlos Tianxin Wang is attending the Ameriican Meteorological Society 35th Agricultural and Forest Meteorology meeting in St Paul, MN
https://ams.confex.com/ams/35AF14F6BG/cfp.cgi
Robert Shortt and ddb attended Coastal Wetlands Restoration project annual meeting at UC Santa Cruz that is funded by uc lab fees wetland project
https://wetlands.ucsc.edu/people.html
Kyle Delwiche and DDB participated on the web meeting by SFEI on Activating science and management communities for blue carbon solutions
Kaniska Mallick attended the International Workship on High Resolution Thermal Earth Observation 2023 meeting in Rome and gave an oral presentation. Consort of Conductances: The Missing Biophysical Link in Thermal Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Evaporation and Inclusion for the Future LST Missions
Author: Mallick, Kaniska; Baldocchi, Dennis; Hu, Tian; Wang, Tianxin; Verfaillie, Joseph; Szutu, Daphne; Boulet, Gilles; Olioso, Albert; Gamet, Phillippe; Roujean, Jean-Louis; Sulis, Mauro; Hitzelberger, Patrik; Bossung, Christian; Corbari, Chiara; Mancini, Marco; Nieto, Hector; Bhattarai, Nishan; Szantoi...
D Baldocchi participated in a International Land Atmosphere Benchmarking Meeting over zoon
VisitorsApril
Nice surprise to see Prof. Youngryel Ryu drop by to visit. He was in the City for a remote sensing workshop
Education-Outreach
The Biomet lab(Daphne, Kyle, Robert and Dennis) hosted over 60 5th grade science students from Knightsen and Old River Elementary schools for a Delta Wetland field trip. We discussed about soil and peat, carbon cycle, plants, animals, birds and insects, the geography of the delta and had sensors to measure salinty across the estuary. All lots of fun. Tara Duggan from the Chronicle also joined us and may feature a story on the students and wetlands
field trip and Dutch Slough was featured in the SF Chronicle
Why the Bay Area is home to one of the most effective carbon sinks in the world
https://www.sfchronicle.com/climate/article/dutch-slough-wetland-carbon-17883469.php
we were also featured on KGO Abc news
And a 5 minute interview on KCBS
https://omny.fm/shows/kcbsam-on-demand/a-carbon-sink-in-the-east-bay-moves-california-tow
ddb gave presentation about our Hill Slough wetland and flux tower to the Suisun Marsh Spring Landowner Workshop and SRCD 60th Anniversary during a field trip to Hill Slough and Rush Ranch (4/20)
Robert and Dennis hosted Andrew Oliphants SF State bioclimatology class (20 students) at the Dutch Slough field site where we showed them the flux instruments and discussed the geography of the delta and the wetland restoration (4/22)
Robert represented the lab and gave a presentation of our work at a field trip by senior environmental managers of the state at Ducth slough..Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee
Publications
Anthony, Tyler L., Daphne J. Szutu, Joseph G. Verfaillie, Dennis D. Baldocchi, and Whendee L. Silver. 2023. 'Carbon-sink potential of continuous alfalfa agriculture lowered by short-term nitrous oxide emission events', Nature Communications, 14: 1926.
Staff NewsMarch
Badicchi is an Environmental Sciences Leader Award for 2023 by Research.com. He is ranked 13th worldwide and 7th in the US
Education-Outreach
Joe Verfaillie led a show and tell of Berkeley Cragmont 1st and 2nd graders about meteorological/weather instruments.
Meetings
Ddb gave a Masterclaass lecture on Scaling Metabolic Gas Fluxes from Leaf to Globe: A Quest Towards Estimating Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor Fluxes Everywhere, All the Time at Wageningen University. He also received a Doctor Honoris Causa degree. The event is on YouTube https://youtu.be/t7U0S-YtkrE
ddb gave Earth and Planetary Science, EPS colloquium seminar at Harvard on Talk Title: Lessons Learned about the Breathing of the Biosphere, from a Californian Network of Greenhouse Gas Flux Measurement Towers
Publications
Wang, Tianxin, Joseph Verfaillie, Daphne Szutu, and Dennis Baldocchi. 2023. 'Handily measuring sensible and latent heat exchanges at a bargain: A test of the variance-Bowen ratio approach', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 333: 109399.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109399
Yang, Xi, Dennis Baldocchi, and Hualei Yang. 2023. 'Jianwu (Jim) Tang (1970–2023)', Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02032-w
ResearchFebruary
Collecting a new set of high resolution lidar and 4 band digital images of our wetland sites. The drone is being implemented by ETrac and flies at about 90 m. Told we are getting 150 hits per meter square. This set is over the wind blown, dead tules just at the start of the growing season. Next set will be summer
Education-Outreach
Christine Martin, an environmental economic major, working in our lab gave a presentation on California Climate Indicators, Natural Climate Solutions and links to the Biometlab
Koong Yi organized the Ameriflux Webinar on Year of Remote Sensing. Carlos Wang gave a presentation on Google Earth Engine for the Ameriflux Webinar on Remote Sensing
Kyle, Robert, Daphne and ddb met with the science teachers (Melissa, Joshua and Lois) from Knightsen and Old River Elementary Schools to plan a field trip in April to Dutch Slough to look at peat, plants, water and wildlife.
Dennis Baldocchi, with special guest star, Josep Penuelas, spoke to the Berkeley Planty Social Club on Think like a Tree:Get out in Nature and Touch, Smell and Observe. It was a fun experience with a group of bright and energetic plant students
Meetings
Robert Shortt ,Kyle Delwiche and DDB attended the Delta Restoration Forum meeting
VisitorsJanuary
Josep Penuelas from CSIC in Barcelona joins the Biometlab for another week visit and discussions on science, life and the future. First chance to visit since Covid. He gave a fascinating lab seminar on his work on whether the C cycle is saturating in a warmer world, with more CO2, N deposition, land use change, etc, etc
Education-Outreach
Posted a Berkeley Blog On Sharing Water Better in California
https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2023/01/25/can-we-take-steps-towards-sharing-water-better-in-california/
Was invited to join Kaiyu Guan's lab meeting at the University of Illinois and discuss results on evaporation and photosynthesis from Ameriflux and products with remote sensing models, like BESS and with NIRv
Publications
Ueyama, Masahito, Sara H. Knox, Kyle B. Delwiche, Sheel Bansal, William J. Riley, Dennis Baldocchi, Takashi Hirano, Gavin McNicol, Karina Schafer, Lisamarie Windham-Myers, Benjamin Poulter, Robert B. Jackson, Kuang-Yu Chang, Jiquen Chen, Housen Chu, Ankur R. Desai, Sébastien Gogo, Hiroki Iwata, Minseok Kang, Ivan Mammarella, Matthias Peichl, Oliver Sonnentag, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, Youngryel Ryu, Eugénie S. Euskirchen, Mathias Göckede, Adrien Jacotot, Mats B. Nilsson, and Torsten Sachs. 2023. 'Modeled production, oxidation and transport processes of wetland methane emissions in temperate, boreal, and Arctic regions', Global Change Biology, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16594
Volk, John M., Justin Huntington, Forrest S. Melton, Richard Allen, Martha C. Anderson, Joshua B. Fisher, Ayse Kilic, Gabriel Senay, Gregory Halverson, Kyle Knipper, Blake Minor, Christopher Pearson, Tianxin Wang, Yun Yang, Steven Evett, Andrew N. French, Richard Jasoni, and William Kustas. 2023. 'Development of a benchmark Eddy flux evapotranspiration dataset for evaluation of satellite-driven evapotranspiration models over the CONUS', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 331: 109307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109307
Research
Starting a collaboration with Mark Stacey's Fluid Lab in Civil Engineering and Henry Lindekugel, a Master's student, to evaluate and analyze velocity and volumetric flows of water in and out of Dutch Slough with our acoustic doppler profile system.
Staff News
Kyle Delwiche will be working in the biomet lab part time on the wetland project. Kyle is also working on the Fluxnet project in Trevor Keenan's lab and has led the methane synthesis project.
Submissions
Sophie Ruehr, Manuela Girotto, Joseph G. Verfaillie, Dennis Baldocchi, Trevor F. Keenan. Ecosystem groundwater use enhances carbon fixation 2 and tree growth in a semi-arid oak savanna Agricultural Forest Meteorology. special issue Amerflux after 25 years
Lily Klinek1, Jessie Au, Christopher YS Wong, Troy S Magney, Dennis Baldocchi. Analyzing the start of season phenology of North American deciduous forests with carbon flux and digital camera time series. Agricultural Forest Meteorology. special issue Amerflux after 25 years
Visitors
Former postdoc, Martin Beland, from Laval University, http://digitalforestlab.ulaval.ca/, in Canada, will be in residence for 3 months during his sabbatical. Welcome Martin!
Martin gave a very insightful presentation on foliage clumping and its impact on canopy photosynthesis to the Biomet lab