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Jan

2019

Carbon isotopic fractionation on coral reef related to benthic community composition

By Leslie Willoughby

David Koweek samples coral on One Tree Island, photo: Aaron Ninokawa

Using carbon stable isotopes to track coral reef metabolism, David Koweek, along with Ken Caldeira and former Carnegie postdocs Rebecca Albright and Yui Takeshita, looked at how carbon isotopic ...

Jan

2019

AGU Awards: Zihan Chen for Outstanding Student Presentation

By Leslie Willoughby

Zihan Chen, who joined DGE during summer 2018 as an undergraduate intern in CLab, was awarded an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his poster on his summer research at the 2018 AGU Fall ...

Jan

2019

Caldeira Lab Loses its Lead Singer

By Elizabeth Susskind

We were sad to lose Anna Possner this last month as she headed off to new pastures in her native Germany. Not only do we lose a brilliant postdoc but we lose our fabulous Lead Singer of the NCCA band ...

Dec

2018

Anna Michalak interview on climate report

By Leslie Willoughby

Carnegie's Anna Michalak spoke with Sierra magazine about an assessment of the carbon stocks and fluxes in soils, water, vegetation, aquatic-terrestrial interfaces, human settlements, agriculture, ...

Nov

2018

Carnegie’s Anna Michalak’s work guides North American carbon assessment

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Carnegie’s Anna Michalak was a major contributor to the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report released last Friday, which provides a current ...

Oct

2018

Unprecedented atlas of coral reefs released

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Today, Paul G. Allen Philanthropies and a consortium of partners, including Carnegie, unveiled the Allen Coral Atlas, a pioneering effort that uses high-resolution satellite imagery ...

Aug

2018

Particulate pollution’s impact varies greatly depending on where it originated

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— When it comes to aerosol pollution, as the old real estate adage says, location is everything. Aerosols are tiny particles that are spewed into the atmosphere by human activities, ...

Aug

2018

Pacific Ocean’s Effect on Arctic Warming

By Carnegie HQ

New research, led by former Carnegie postdoctoral fellow Summer Praetorius, shows that changes in the heat flow of the northern Pacific Ocean may have a larger effect on the Arctic climate than ...

Jul

2018

Can seagrass help fight ocean acidification?

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC— Seagrass meadows could play a limited, localized role in alleviating ocean acidification in coastal ecosystems, according to new work led by Carnegie’s David Koweek and including ...

Jun

2018

Path to zero emissions starts out easy, but gets steep

By Carnegie HQ

Washington, DC—Carbon dioxide emissions from human activities must approach zero within several decades to avoid risking grave damage from the effects of climate change. This will require creativity ...

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