Career Field – Environmental Science

Are you concerned about global warming? Greenhouse gases emitted to the atmosphere trap heat and cause global warming. Some greenhouse gases come directly from human activity, such as when we burn gasoline to drive our cars or produce electricity, but there are also many greenhouse gases produced in nature, such as by respiration of plans or soils. This workshop will give you a brief overview of climate change science, and we'll discuss human-made and natural sources of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. We will measure C02 flux from soil as an example.

Leader – Francesca Hopkins

Francesca Hopkins was born and raised in Sonoma County. She attended Rohnert Park public schools, including Rancho Cotate High School. She continued her studies at the University of California Berkeley, graduating in 2005 with the Departmental Citation in Environmental Sciences. After a summer spent conducting research in the Amazon forest of eastern Ecuador, Francesca began working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab on Carbon Cycling and Climate Change research.