Whendee Silver
Title
Professor of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Department
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
Research Group
Email
Phone
(510) 643-3074
Fax
(510) 643-5098
Research Expertise and Interest
climate change, global change, greenhouse gases, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, grasslands, tropical forests, carbon sequestration
Research Description
My research interests are in the fields of biogeochemistry and ecosystem ecology, and include the causes and consequences of climate change, possible solutions, feedbacks to the global climate system, tropical ecology, rangeland ecology, and redox sensitive biogeochemical cycling.
In the News
August 29, 2018
Improving soil quality can slow global warming
Low-tech ways of improving soil quality on farms and rangelands worldwide could pull significant amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and slow the pace of climate change.
August 27, 2018
UC Berkeley leads new assessment of Bay Area climate impacts
California today issued its latest assessment of the many challenges the state faces from climate change — including wildfires like those still raging throughout the state – and highlighted for the first time the regional impacts with nine deep-dive reports spearheaded by University of California scientists.
December 7, 2011
Can ‘carbon ranching’ offset emissions in California?
Could cultivating dense fields of weeds help mitigate climate change by soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? Berkeley scientists Dennis Baldocchi and Whendee Silver are exploring that possibility in California’s agricultural heartland, the San Joaquin Valley. National Public Radio reports.