We are happy to announce that Prof. Jose Fuentes of Penn State, is the 2018 recipient of the American Meteorology Award for OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOMETEOROLOGY ‘For uncovering the significance and workings of key interactions among flora, fauna, and the atmosphere and their role in regional and global environmental change’ Congratulations, Jose
June 9, 2017 We just concluded the 2017 Fluxnet workshop. About 114 scientists from across the globe converged in Berkeley, June 7-9, to discuss long term carbon and water flux measurements, data processing, flux interpretation, the new FLUXNET 2015 dataset and directions for the future. The meeting was divided into overviews of the regional networks,… More
Fluxnet and Ameriflux scientist, Russell Monson, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona was Elected Fellow of the Ecological Society of America, 2017, for his contributions to seminal discoveries in the areas of plant adaptation, biogeochemical cycling, and ecosystem-atmosphere gas exchange. His work has clarified patterns of C4 photosynthesis evolution, soil organic nitrogen… More
Fluxnet Workshop 2017 will be held in Berkeley, California for June 7-9, 2017. It will be in the Brower Center that can hold about 150 people. The web site for registration is now open, where you could also find detailed information about the tentative agenda, call for poster, lodging, and local transportation. Registration Website We plan to have ample… More
The 2016 list of Highly Cited Scientists was posted in November. The 2016 list focuses on contemporary research achievement: only Highly Cited Papers in science and social sciences journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the 11-year period 2004-2014 were surveyed. Highly Cited Papers are defined as those that rank in the… More
THE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN BIOMETEOROLOGY Marc Aubinet For significant contributions, in research and education, to applying the eddy-covariance method to atmosphere-biosphere interactions and to the problem of advection
Profs. Michael Goulden of UC Irvine and Yiqi Luo of the University of Oklahoma are among this years class of fellows of the American Geophysical Union. According to the organization’s bylaws, no more than 0.01 percent of the total membership of AGU is recognized annually. This year’s class of Fellows are geographically diverse coming from… More
Andy Black, from the University of British Columbia, has informed us that his former student David Gaumont-Guay passed away on April 17 2016. He lost his long battle with leukemia. He fought it with incredible courage and determination. He leaves a very young family: his wonderful wife Cindy and sons, Leo and Sam. He made remarkable… More
This month we interview Dr. Maricar Carmelita Alberto. She is a Senior Associate Scientist who studies greenhouse gas exchange on rice at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines. How did you become a flux scientist? What was your pathway, mentors, training and opportunities? I started to become a flux scientist when Dr…. More
For the month of March, 2016 we are interviewing Kimberly Novick. Kim is an assistant professor at the Indiana University – Bloomington. She is one of the principal investigators of the Morgan Monroe deciduous forest site (US-MMS), one the longer AmeriFlux sites that was set up by Sue Grimmond and HaPe Schmid in the 1990s…. More