April 21, 2022

Jessica Tierney from the University of Arizona is the first geoscientist to be recognized by an Alan T. Waterman award! Tierney is recognized for her outstanding advances in the reconstruction of past climate change and furthering the understanding of future climate change. Her research focuses on understanding past climate change, with the goal of improving the understanding of what the future holds. She specializes in generating organic geochemical records of paleoclimate, derived from fossil molecules known as biomarkers that are preserved in sediments and rocks.

NSF News Release: Alan T. Waterman Award, the nation's highest honor for early-career scientists and engineers.

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