Environmental and Climate research at Brookhaven National Lab is focused on aerosol chemistry and microphysics, aerosol related infrastructure, climate and process modeling, cloud processes, data management and software engineering, terrestrial ecosystems, meteorological services, and tracer technologies.
Aerosol Chemistry and Microphysics
Focused on improving process-level understanding of aerosol formation and evolution mechanisms, aerosol absorption, and the direct and indirect influences that aerosols have on clouds, precipitation and climate.
Aerosol Related Infrastructure
Provides measurement capabilities to the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program for long-term measurements of aerosols and their precursors across a global network of ground- and aircraft-based locations.
Climate and Process Modeling
Uses multi-scale process modeling and observational analyses to understand the processes essential to clouds, precipitation, land-atmosphere interactions, and urban impacts.
Cloud Processes
Seeks to improve understanding of microphysical and dynamical processes that impact the lifecycle of clouds to improve their representation in climate models.
Terrestrial Ecosystem Science and Technology
Seeks to improve the representation of ecosystem processes in Earth System Models in order to increase our ability to understand and project global change.
Tracer Technologies
The Tracer Technology Group uses perfluorocarbon tracers as a tool for understanding the processes that transport air, heat, water, and pollutants.
Technology Development and Applications and Meteorological Services
Responsible for the maintenance, calibration, data collection and data archiving for the weather instrumentation network associated with BNL's atmospheric dispersion concerns.
Funding Agencies
Job Opportunities
Computer Software Engineer (Atmospheric Measurement Systems)
Postdoctoral Researcher – Urban Boundary Layer Observationalist
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Upcoming Seminars
- FEB2Thursday
Environmental & Climate Sciences Department Seminar
Date Available
Thursday, February 2, 2023, 11 a.m., Hybrid
- FEB9Thursday
Environmental & Climate Sciences Department Seminar
The Roles of Natural Variability and Measurement Uncertainty in Quantifying Uncertainty in Ice Particle Fall Velocity Relationships
Andrew Dzambo, University of Oklahoma
Thursday, February 9, 2023, 11 a.m., Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490
- FEB16Thursday
Environmental & Climate Sciences Department Seminar
Date Available
Thursday, February 16, 2023, 11 a.m., Hybrid
The Environmental and Climate Sciences Department is part of the Laboratory's Environment, Biology, Nuclear Science & Nonproliferation Directorate.