Alumni Bill Hagopian (B.S. '94) and Hope Jahren (Ph.D. '96), who have been working together since their overlapping times at Berkeley, are featured on Ars Technica on the many one-of-a-kind instruments they created to study plants and the deep geological history of Earth's atmosphere. Jahren and Hagopian, her lab manager, have been collaborating since 1996.
The San Diego Union-Tribune | May 11, 2016
ESPM CE Specialist Tom Scott is featured in The San Diego Union-Tribune on the goldspotted borer beetle, which has decimated old-growth trees across Southern California. Scott comments that the estimated number of infested trees is so large that "nobody would believe it."
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat | May 10, 2016
ESPM"s UC Berkeley Forest Bathology and Mycology Lab, run by CE Specialist Matteo Gargelotto, is organizing the annual Sudden Oak Death Blitz in Sonoma County this weekend. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat notes that last year over 500 volunteers took leaf samples from 2,168 trees in the 15-county region.
Mercury News | May 07, 2016
ESPM professor Scott Stephens is featured in this Mercury News article about wildfire risk in California. Stephens notes that CA's naturally dry landscapes make wildfires inevitable, and that climate change is extending the length of a typical fire season, changing what we know about wildfire patterns.
KION News | May 07, 2016
ESPM CE Specialist and adjunct professor Matteo Garbelotto was featured on KION News on Sudden Oak Death, a tree disease that is killing millions of oak trees on CA's Central Coast. Garbelotto comments that SOD has killed more trees in the Big Sur area than elsewhere in the state, due to highly conducive weather conditions.
NBC Bay Area | May 06, 2016
ESPM CE Specialist Bill Stewart is featured in this NBC Bay Area video segment on the massive Fort McMurray fire in Alberta, Canada. Stewart, who leads the UC Center for Fire Research and Outreach noted that the fire is an example of a community living in a fireprone environment surrounded by fuel.
KQED | May 05, 2016
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.