Our research focuses on living and fossil organisms, and how they are chemically linked to the global environment. Using measurements of the stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen, my group is working to elucidate information about metabolism and environment, both in the Human environment, and through Geologic Time. In 1996, as a new assistant professor, Hope hired me to set up and manage her stable isotope lab, first at Georgia Tech, then Johns Hopkins University, then the University of Hawaii, and currently at the University of Oslo (Norway). “Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is a beautifully written memoir about the life of a woman in science, a brilliant friendship, and the profundity of trees. Terrific.” —Barack Obama “Engrossing. Does for botany what Oliver Sacks’s essays did for neurology, what Stephen Jay. Professor Hope Jahren’s 2016 memoir, Lab Girl, chronicles the author’s life and experience as a geobiologist.The memoir contains three parts, each spanning a major period in Jahren’s life. Autobiographical chapters are followed by brief, lyrical chapters examining various plants.
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