Congratulations to Dennis Bladocchi, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, on being awarded the American Geophysical Union’s Ambassador Award. The award recognizes recipients’ outstanding contributions to society, services to the earth and space community, scientific leadership, and promotion of talent/career pool. The Ambassador Award is given annually to individuals whose achievements extend beyond those recognized by traditional scientific discipline awards. Baldocchi and other recipients will be recognized during AGU’s upcoming annual meeting.
Baldocchi received the award for his pioneering work estimating surface-atmosphere exchanges, leadership in establishing global flux networks for terrestrial biomes, and exemplary collaboration with scientists around the world. For more than a decade, he has helped lead and coordinate FLUXNET, an international “network of networks” of earth system scientists who employ the eddy covariance method in their research. Collectively, FLUXNET links over 1000 active and historic observation stations across most global climates and biomes.
In addition to his research, Baldocchi currently serves as the Executive Associate Dean and Director of Agriculture and Natural Resource Programs in Rausser College.
Learn more about the Ambassador Award on the Advancing Earth and Space Sciences (AGU) page.