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“I’ve thought, ‘can I do this?’ because there aren’t many people that look me doing earth and environmental science...I had to push past that and realize I am good enough, smart enough, and capable enough to do this,”
@DrAlexisWilson
told
@theAGU
.
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Did climate change have a role in 2017's devastating weather? "Increasingly, scientists are able to answer that question — and increasingly, the answer is yes," writes Noah Diffenbaugh.
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For today’s eclipse,
@StanfordEd
's Jonathan Osborne recommends listening to the insects and animals go quiet.
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Congratulations to
@jkwillenbring
who received the
@AGU
's Marguerite T. Williams Award for her contributions to research and community-building by a mid-career scientist in the field of Earth and planetary surface processes.
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Pulsing air bubbles through seawater can reduce local ocean acidity and protect coral reefs.
#EarthDayEveryDay
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Congratulations to Mathieu Lapôtre who has been named the 2021 recipient of the Luna B. Leopold Early Career Award from the
@theAGU
, for outstanding contributions to the field of Earth and planetary surface processes within ten years of receiving a PhD.
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Refusing to acknowledge climate change will leave us unprepared, Noah Diffenbaugh says.
#HurricaneHarvey
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@Stanford
’s new school of sustainability
@StanfordDoerr
launches today! Our inaugural Dean, Arun Majumdar, shares his vision and why interdisciplinary scholarship in sustainability is key in our fight for Earth’s future:
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Congratulations to the first graduating class of the
@Stanford
Doerr School of Sustainability! “It goes without saying that today represents not just a landmark for your educational journey but for your entire life,” Dean Arun Majumdar told the school’s
#Stanford2023
graduates.
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“My philosophy is this: Just about every single person on this planet already cares about a changing climate — they just haven’t connected the dots,” climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe told Chris Field in a discussion on climate change awareness.
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"I never wanted to be a women-in-STEM activist," says
@jkwillenbring
this
#WomensHistoryMonth
. "I filed a Title IX complaint against my former master’s advisor that was leaked and then released the day after Harvey Weinstein's story was."
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Under the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, the first new department, Oceans, will launch Sept 1, bringing together faculty from the natural sciences, Earth sciences, engineering, and the humanities to focus on ocean discovery & sustainability.
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A preventive-medicine expert articulates the health and climate benefits of a low-meat diet.
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Discussions about climate change can be difficult, especially with neighbors, colleagues and family members. Listen to climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh and Katharine Hayhoe discuss “Why We Need to Talk About Climate Change” on the
@climateone
podcast.
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Deep-sea biodiversity along California's coast may be highly susceptible to climate changes:
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In a celebration event last week,
@StanfordDoerr
formally launched with 700 guests urging action on climate change & other sustainability challenges. "We are here to lock our arms together and make a pledge," said Dean Majumdar.
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.
@StanfordDoerr
represents the most recent evolution of how
@Stanford
approaches research and teaching related to the Earth – this time in response to sustainability challenges that aren’t new but increasingly urgent.
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More than 40% of LGBTQIA+ workers in STEM are not out to their colleagues. This
#PrideMonth2020
, six Stanford Earth members talk about the role that their sexual and gender identities have in the workplace.
#Pride
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California's water resource infrastructure, built before extreme weather patterns were a factor, may not be able to handle today's climate reality, said Noah Diffenbaugh.
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@stanforddoerr
has named atmospheric greenhouse gas removal as the first of several Flagship Destinations – ambitious targets that have the potential for impact on a global scale.
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A new software tool can identify risky faults to reduce the risk of triggering manmade earthquakes.
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“Climate change is already harming communities. It’s not a problem for future generations. It’s a problem right now,” Stanford PhD student Miyuki Hino tells
@PopSci
about her research on high-tide flooding in Annapolis, Maryland.
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There's some movement in Mitchell. 👀
A sneak peak of the launch of a new school at
@Stanford
. Less than 1⃣ more day until
@StanfordDoerr
opens its doors!
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Happy first day of Stanford Spring Quarter!
In celebration of the good weather, we’re revisiting a "buzzy" research story from 2020. Experts from
@NatCapProject
explain the value of wild bees in our agricultural systems:
📷: H. Taghap
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Congratulations to William Ellsworth who was awarded the 2021 Harry Fielding Reid Medal by the Seismological Society of America.
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"There is a lot of work yet still to be done in the Earth sciences to include more people of color," says
@folasade_ayoola
this
#WomensHistoryMonth
. "I often still feel that same sense of solus, being the only Black woman and Black person in most spaces."
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Stanford geophysicist Paul Segall explains how the Fagradalsfjall eruption compares to other recent volcanic events & what makes Iceland a “double whammy” for volcanic activity.
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In five years, an estimated 66 million trees have died due to drought in California.
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Congratulations to Alexandra Konings who is a recipient of the Global Environmental Change Early Career Award from the
@theAGU
, for outstanding contributions to research, educational, or societal impacts in the area of global environmental change.
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Pulsing air bubbles through seawater can reduce local ocean acidity and protect coral reefs:
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Jessica Watkins, '10, on studying geology: “It allows you to answer questions about things that you can hold in your hands.”
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Hundreds of Stanford students have explored the "guts" of
#PointLobos
State Natural Reserve.
#EarthDayEveryDay
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Congratulations to Andres Marquez who has been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from
@NSF
to explore marine invertebrate body size changes in the fossil record.
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Congratulations to the 2024 cohort of
@KnightHennessy
scholars, including
@stanforddoerr
students Danny Collins, Daviana Berkowitz-Sklar, David Akanmu, Katherine Tang, and Vittorio Colicci ⭐
Introducing the 2024 cohort of Knight-Hennessy scholars!
The 90 students are from 30 countries and are pursuing degrees in 45 graduate programs across all seven of
@Stanford
’s graduate schools. (1/3)
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Since 2013, the program has offset 25M tons of carbon – equal to 5% of Calif.’s annual passenger vehicle emissions.
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"Fisheries science has historically been done mainly by men, so the roles of women in fisheries have been largely ignored, and feminist frameworks have rarely been applied to fisheries," says
@ceferguson1
this
#WomensHistoryMonth
.
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“It’s a mistake to ignore methane,” Rob Jackson tells
@grist
. “If we can reduce methane emissions quickly, we could shave a half-a-degree Celsius off peak temperatures.”
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The optical fiber costs less than a dollar per meter to install, says geophysicist Biondo Biondi.
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Not every record-hot event has a human fingerprint, "but we are getting close," Noah Diffenbaugh said.
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“While my identity helped inform my love of nature, the lack of Latinx or other diverse educators informed my desire to pursue a PhD and join the professoriate,” says
@JosephTumber
, PhD ‘21, who will begin a postdoc at
@HarvardForest
#Stanford2021
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Few regulations exist to protect laborers from increasingly frequent extreme heat events. Experts from
@StanfordWoods
&
@StanfordCIGH
explain extreme heat’s impacts on workplace risks, marginalized communities, and the economy.
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Once driven nearly to extinction, the second-largest animals of all time have been spotted in big numbers in the Southern Ocean, competing directly with industrial trawlers for prey, according to scientists from
@Stanford
and
@LindbladExp
.
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Extracting coral in Palau to study how Earth’s climate has changed over a thousand years, we love
#EarthDayEveryDay
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The Ross Sea was designated by 24 countries and the EU as the world's largest Marine Protected Area (MPA).
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"An explosion of research" has posed hypotheses on how climate change could influence events, Noah Diffenbaugh says.
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Ice-penetrating radar observations that captured the formation of a “double ridge” feature in Greenland suggest the ice shell of Europa may have an abundance of water pockets beneath similar features that are common on the surface.
@NatureComms
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Low oxygen in oceans slowed recovery of life after the Great Dying 250 million years ago:
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Presenting different perspectives of energy, epidemiology, and Native environmental policy, EJ speakers on Feb. 8 offered attendees a glimpse into how these fields can propel careers that often involve both research and activism.
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Next-gen LEDs can be made brighter and more efficient, but come with an important trade-off. New research:
@StanfordEnergy
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Mad about maps? The David Rumsey Map Center holds more than 150,000 cartographic treasures:
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"There's no better way for our students to learn than to be on site.”
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“What I do requires lots of communications to the general public and that’s been the most challenging part,” said
@xyolipc
, PhD ’02, about her current role as the head of the
@SismologicoMX
.
#StanfordFamilyWeekend
#MeetStanfordEarth
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“The White Shark Café seems to be a “meet and greet spot,” says biology professor Barbara Block, who led a team from the
@HopkinsMarine
and
@MontereyAq
out to sea this spring to study the region where hundreds of white sharks gather every year.
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"It’s important to consider the insidious ways that
#environmentaljustice
comes up," says Keoni Rodriguez. "One of the things that I think about quite a lot are the frequent rejections of
#Indigenous
epistemologies...related to environmental practice."
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Scientists have decades of seismic data from tiny earthquakes that most people didn’t know happened. The Mining Seismic Wavefields (MSW) project is a collaboration between Stanford,
@USC
,
@Caltech
, and
@GeorgiaTech
to develop new ways to use this data.
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Tracking sub-audible sounds indicating rises and falls in lava lake levels could improve the forecasting of potentially deadly eruptions.
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Combining synthetic DNA with microscopic particles could unlock stores of geothermal energy:
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California's water system was built for a climate that no longer exists. Noah Diffenbaugh says adapting is possible.
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Many decisions in industry, policy, commerce, social sciences, and medicine are made based on data science, and the people who analyze and draw conclusions from the data need to be diverse, said Margot Gerritsen (
@ICMEStanford
).
#WiDS2018
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Students practice sustainable agriculture on the O'Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm:
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Extreme weather events are tied to human-induced global warming, Noah Diffenbaugh & team found in a
@PNASNews
study.
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Nature-based solutions are as effective as traditional approaches like concrete seawalls but provide added benefits in stormwater pollution reduction and recreational opportunities, according to a new study by
@NatCapProject
’s
@AnneGuerry
.
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“It’s cool to have done something that I think I want to do forever.” – Fiona Noonan, ’17
#MeetStanfordEarth
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“When I started off…I was really scared because I felt like I didn’t belong,” says Judith Santano, BS’19. “I decided to just try things…and that’s when I felt like I was getting the most out of my education.”
@judeiths
@StanfordNSO
#StanfordNSO19
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Betting on future carbon-removal tech may delay action on concrete options,
@chrfield
and
@katharine_mach
say.
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How did Titan’s distinct dunes, plains, and labyrinth terrains form using the alien world's basic organic compounds, which are thought to be much more fragile than Earth's inorganic silicate grains?
@marslogander
has an idea.
@theAGU
@NASAJPL
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9
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.
@MarshallBBurke
: "To improve agricultural productivity, we first have to measure it."
#EarthDayEveryDay
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Looking for something to read this summer? Faculty and scholars associated with the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability have compiled a list of 29 books to inspire conversations about the planet, human impacts, local histories, and future possibilities
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Umbrella terms like
#Asian
or
#AAPI
refer to over 20 national cultures, and countless ethnic ones. As a result, the pathways that AAPI individuals may take into academia and the geosciences vary dramatically. Learn more this
#AAPIHeritageMonth
#APIHM
:
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Two of the most rapidly changing glaciers in Antarctica, which are leading contributors to sea-level rise, may behave as an interacting system rather than separate entities, according to a new analysis of radar data.
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If the U.S. remains out of the climate pact, today’s children are “going to see big changes that you and I don’t see for ice, coral and weather disasters,” Rob Jackson tells
@latimes
about the impact the impending election might have on climate change.
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By the end of 2024,
@stanforddoerr
aims to launch the Sustainable Societies Institute. Its research and collaborations will be focused on large-scale sustainable transformations of socio-ecological systems.
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Negative emissions using biomass shows potential to remove carbon from the air, but at the cost of using more land, water, and nutrients, said Rob Jackson. "There is no free ride."
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Enacting an
#antiracism
plan requires planning. A collection of geoscientists, including
@jkwillenbring
present a twenty-point plan that organizations can implement to build an inclusive, equitable and accessible
#geoscience
community.
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Congrats to Earth Systems graduate student Christine Cavallo on setting a world record in the 2K erg sprints this past weekend.
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"The reductions in air pollution in China caused by this economic disruption likely saved twenty times more lives in China than have currently been lost due to infection with the virus in that country," Marshall Burke tells
@SFGate
.
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Individual action on climate change "makes a difference because we are social beings. So, when we see one another start to take climate change or environmental issues seriously, it becomes real,” Gabrielle Wong-Parodi tells
@bustle
.
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What do
@D_M_Schroeder
and
@RadioGlaciology
want? Observations beneath kilometers of ice at the scale of a continent. When do they want them? All the time.
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Earthquakes in Oklahoma won't subside unless saltwater injection changes, geophysicist Mark Zoback told
@60Minutes
:
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The
@stanforddoerr
has selected
@studiogang
, along with
@scape_studio
and
@atelierten
, to design its Sustainability Commons on the west side of campus.
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As medical imaging improved surgery, so can geophysical imaging help
#groundwater
management, Rosemary Knight says.
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At a recent Dean's Lecture event, Planet Labs CEO
@Will4Planet
discussed how pairing artificial intelligence and satellites has expanded opportunities in geospatial analysis, from mapping coral reefs to wildfire damage.
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.
@StanfordSTC
's Koomey remarks on a report of U.S. GDP and electricity-use growth decoupling
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Reliance on possible planetary-scale carbon removal technologies is a "reckless" bet,
@katharine_mach
says.
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Geophysicist Biondo Biondi and team have gathered seismic data using optical fiber underground that acts like a sensor and can be installed for less than a dollar per meter.
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Black and Brown people are more concerned about climate change than white people are, so why aren’t there more Black geoscientists?
@DrAlexisWilson
,
@KatlynMTurner
,
@amina6_26
, Amber Bonds, Jerry Harris, and Nnamdi Jacob weigh in this
#BlackHistoryMonth
.
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"The change is dramatic, and it is taking place faster than had been projected by climate models," said Noah Diffenbaugh.
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How can marine protected areas keep pace with climate change? New framework developed by Oceans Dept scholar
@ADalmauNur
& 50 coauthors will help governments build climate resilience into protected areas for transboundary regions:
📸
@jadlerphoto
/ MasKelp
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T-minus 10 days until
@StanfordEarth
➡
@StanfordDoerr
!
@StanfordEng
Assistant Professor
@TarpehDiem
shares why he thinks the new school of sustainability can lead to real world impact in our
#WhatExcitesMe
series. Watch here:
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Geophysicist
@D_M_Schroeder
digitized and analyzed historical film taken by early Antarctic explorers that could help predict the effects of future climate change.
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Environmental justice is a response to environmental racism – the best predictor of whether someone lives near a toxic waste site is race. As a result of community-led activism,
#environmentaljustice
has emerged as an important topic in academia.
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As part of his photography project documenting land use changes in Hawaii, Franklin Lurie, a climate resilience engineering student from
@stanforddoerr
&
@StanfordEng
, captured this shot of the ongoing eruption of Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano.
#FieldworkFriday
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A new research partnership will combine Indigenous and scientific knowledge to monitor marine life in a sacred tribal region that may be a bellwether of how native species will fare in the face of climate change.
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Open to all Stanford students, faculty, postdocs, staff, and alumni! Enter our annual photography contest in one of four categories. Last day to enter is 3/17.
Submit here:
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"Being the only Black person in a room is isolating and makes you question whether you belong," says
@DrAlexisWilson
. "This field is one of the least racially diverse fields and...our school is no different."
#BlackHistoryMonth
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10
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Congratulations to Mathieu Lapôtre (
@marslogander
) who has awarded the 2021 Luna B. Leopold Early Career Award from
@theAGU
.
Lapôtre will give the Robert Sharp Lecture at
#AGU21
on Thursday, December 16. For more info:
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