Susan S. Hubbard: Environmental Synthesis & Research Leadership
Meeting the water needs of humans and ecosystems is perhaps one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Over the last decade, it has become increasingly clear that if we are to face the water and environmental challenges of the future we must view the Earth as a single, though highly complex, system that includes the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the geosphere and the biosphere. It has also become clear that these components are coupled and highly dynamic over various spatial and temporal scales; changes that occur in one component at one location often influence the environment elsewhere at later times. Understanding these coupled processes and complex feedbacks, with sufficient accuracy and in the face of anthropogenic and global changes, is a prerequisite to successful management of water resources and ecosystems. Advancing research across and beyond disciplinary boundaries requires prioritization of problems, coordination of efforts, and synthesis.
Susan S. Hubbard Research Leadership and Service
- Deputy Director forPrograms, Earth Science Division, LBNL
- Sustainable Systems SFA, Laboratory Research Manager
- Associate Director, Berkeley Water Center
- Program Leader, LBNL Environmental Remediation Program
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Deputy Thrust Lead, Advanced Simulation Capability for Environmental Management (ASCEM)
- Core Lead, Modeling and Monitoring, Microbiological Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery (MEHR) Program of the Energy Bioscience Institute
- Editorial Boards (current and recent)
- Associate Editor, JGR-Biogeosciences (2010-)
- Special Issue Editor, Vadose Zone Journal (2008, GPR Methods)
- Co-Editor, Vadose Zone Journal Co-Editor (2007-)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology (2007-2010)
- Associate Editor, Water Resources Research 2001-2006
- Special Issue Editor, Water Resources Research (2006, Hydrological Synthesis)
- Special Issue Editor, Vadose Zone Journal (2004 Hydrogeophysics)
- Advisory Boards:
- Advisory Committee, DOE Biological and Environmental Research(BERAC)
- Technical Experts Group, DOE Environmental Management (TEG), Adjunct Member
- Technical Advisory Board, EarthWater Resources Megawatershed Development
- Scientific Advisory Board, Forschungzentrum Julich (2006-2009)
- Conference (Co-)Chair / (co-)Organizer:
- Complex Systems Science for Subsurface Fate and Transport, DOE Workshop, August 2009. Workshop Report
- AGU Chapman Conference Biogeophysics, Oct 2008, Portland Maine
- Computational Methods in Water Resources XVII, 2008, San Francisco
- Coupled Processes Meeting, LBNL, 2003. View a photo from the event.
- Hydrogeophysics NATO Advanced Study Institute, Czech Republic, 2002. View a photo from the event.
- Founder (2003) and member (2003-2010) AGU Hydrogeophysics
- Environmental Program at the ALS
- U.S. Representative for IAHS Hydrology 2020 group
