The Plant Land-Atmosphere Climate Exchange (PLACE) at UC Berkeley
This is the homepage for Lucas Vargas Zeppetello's lab group.
Lab News:
April 2026: White paper on extreme heat in India available online.
December 2025: Check out Clara Larson's AGU presentation on relative humidity trends in India!
October 2025: New paper on the physics of extremely high temperatures out in QJRMS
September 2025: Lucas was involved in the climate scientist response to the DOE's Climate Working Group Report. See our press release here.
July 2025: A recent paper on crop yields and water stress was highlighted in EOS:
May 2025: Congratulations to Clara Larson, who finished her masters thesis, entitled "Investigating the Mechanisms that Couple Relative Humidity to the Land Surface at Small Spatial Scales"
April 2025: Check out this report from the Sustainable Futures Collaborative about India's preparedness for climate change.
December 2025: Check out Clara Larson's AGU presentation on relative humidity trends in India!
October 2025: New paper on the physics of extremely high temperatures out in QJRMS
September 2025: Lucas was involved in the climate scientist response to the DOE's Climate Working Group Report. See our press release here.
July 2025: A recent paper on crop yields and water stress was highlighted in EOS:
May 2025: Congratulations to Clara Larson, who finished her masters thesis, entitled "Investigating the Mechanisms that Couple Relative Humidity to the Land Surface at Small Spatial Scales"
April 2025: Check out this report from the Sustainable Futures Collaborative about India's preparedness for climate change.
