Kyle Henderson, PhD Candidate receives 2020 Hugh C. Morris Fellowship
Congratulations to Kyle ! Recipient of 1 of 2 Hugh C. Morris Experiential Learning Fellowship. Administered by the Kimberley Foundation, the fellowship supports a student-designed self-guided experiential program related to studies in earth sciences, climate change, sustainability, or the social impact, social sciences or design sciences concern with earth, sustainability of environmental issues.
New technique for measuring greenhouse gas production from thawing permafrost
A research team led by 苹果淫院 geochemist聽Peter Douglas聽has used a new method for measuring the rate at which methane is produced by microbes breaking down thawing permafrost.聽鈥淭here is a lot of concern about methane being released from permafrost, but we don鈥檛 know how available carbon that has been frozen for thousands of years is to microbes,鈥� says Douglas, an assistant professor in 苹果淫院鈥檚 Department of Earth and Pl