Professor Brenhin Keller is an exceptionally innovative scientist who has made key contributions to understanding the evolution of continental crust under biologic, marine and atmospheric influences. A pioneer in geoinformatics, Brenhin’s ability to...

Megan Konar's research embodies the transformative power of interdisciplinary environmental science in the Anthropocene. Her pioneering work has fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the complex interactions between water resources, food securi...

Alexandra “Alex” Konings is transforming the broad field of global ecology. Her work has focused on the coupling between ecosystem carbon and water fluxes, which are critical for managing water resources and wildfire risks, estimating ecosystem carb...

Macelwane Medalist Dustin “Dusty” Schroeder is a leader in the science and engineering of ice-penetrating radar, enabling space probes to reveal the secrets of Europa and making discoveries that improve projections of sea level rise from ice sheets h...

Understanding earthquakes and quantifying seismic hazard require translating models of source processes into computer simulations and validating those simulations against data to gain confidence in the underlying model. Alice-Agnes Gabriel has emerge...

Natalya Gomez’s research is a testament to the power of modern, interdisciplinary Earth systems science. In her earliest work, she overturned decades of established thinking by bridging ice age sea level theory with glaciology to demonstrate that tre...

Dr. Guan’s research is at the frontiers of ecohydrology, remote sensing and modeling of crop production and its response to climate change. His work directly contributes to solving the grand societal challenge of increasing food production and securi...