Abigail Swann Explained

Abigail L.S. Swann
Fields:atmospheric science, ecology
Alma Mater:Ph.D. University of California, BerkeleyB.A. Columbia University
Awards:Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, 2018NSF CAREER Award, 2016DISCCRS VI Scholar, 2011
Website:http://faculty.washington.edu/aswann/

Abigail L. S. Swann is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Ecology at the University of Washington.[1] [2] Her research group focuses on questions that examine the interactions between plants and climate.[3] [4]

Early life and education

Swann grew up in Glen Ellen, CA and now resides in Seattle, WA. She received her bachelor's degree in earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.[5] She then attended Columbia University for her master's degree in earth and environmental sciences.[6] She returned to the University of California, Berkeley to complete her Ph.D.[7] Her thesis advisor was Inez Fung.

She was also a competitive youth and collegiate sailor, winning the US Sailing Junior Women's Doublehanded Championship (Ida Lewis Trophy)[8] and the collegiate sailing Robert Hobbes Sportsmanship Award.[9]

Career and research

Swann is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science and Ecology at the University of Washington. She uses climate models to simulate the way that plants influence Earth's climate. She has made a number of discoveries about how changes in the biosphere may influence our climate. For example, she predicts that the addition of deciduous forests in the Arctic may cause warming both by reducing the amount of area covered by reflective ice and by increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere through evapotranspiration.[10] While additional forests in mid latitudes across North America and Eurasia, may influence forests as far away as the tropics.[11] Her group also examines how plants adapt to shifts in climate. For example, she found that plants use less water as CO2 increases, decreasing the severity of drought response and thus changing the way climate models should be built.[12] Her findings on the influence of plants on the environment have been reported by Quanta magazine, Geographical Magazine,[13] Inside Science,[14] and multiple UW news publications.[15] [16]

Swann serves as a co-chair of the Biogeochemistry Working Group, Community Earth System Model, and National Center for Atmospheric Research.[17]

Notable publications

Awards and honors

See also

References

  1. News: Abigail Swann. UW News. 2018-11-13. en.
  2. News: Abigail Swann. 2019-05-12. en.
  3. Web site: Abigail L. S. Swann - Google Scholar Citations. scholar.google.com. 2018-11-13.
  4. Web site: Ecoclimate Lab – Abigail Swann, University of Washington. faculty.washington.edu. en-US. 2018-11-13.
  5. News: Alumni Yearbook. Earth and Planetary Science. 2018-11-13. en.
  6. Web site: November 13, 2018 . swann_cv_long . November 14, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181121022101/http://faculty.washington.edu/aswann/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/swann_cv_long.pdf . November 21, 2018 . dead.
  7. News: Forests Emerge as a Major Overlooked Climate Factor Quanta Magazine. Quanta Magazine. 2018-11-14.
  8. News: Ida Lewis Trophy - United States Sailing Association. United States Sailing Association. 2018-11-14. en-US.
  9. Web site: ICSA Inter-collegiate Sailing Association. www.collegesailing.org. en. 2018-11-14.
  10. Swann . A. L. . Fung . I. Y. . Levis . S. . Bonan . G. B. . Doney . S. C. . Changes in Arctic vegetation amplify high-latitude warming through the greenhouse effect . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 7 January 2010 . 107 . 4 . 1295–1300 . 10.1073/pnas.0913846107 . 20080628 . 2803141 . 2010PNAS..107.1295S . free .
  11. Swann . A. L. S. . Fung . I. Y. . Chiang . J. C. H. . Mid-latitude afforestation shifts general circulation and tropical precipitation . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 21 December 2011 . 109 . 3 . 712–716 . 10.1073/pnas.1116706108 . 22190490 . 3271929 . free .
  12. Swann . Abigail L. S. . Hoffman . Forrest M. . Koven . Charles D. . Randerson . James T. . Plant responses to increasing CO2 reduce estimates of climate impacts on drought severity . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 6 September 2016 . 113 . 36 . 10019–10024 . 10.1073/pnas.1604581113 . 27573831 . 5018756 . 2016PNAS..11310019S . free .
  13. News: The carbon-raising effect of fatter plants - Geographical. Burton. Katie. 2018-11-14. en-gb.
  14. News: The Connected Fates of Trees Thousands of Miles Apart. 2018-05-17. Inside Science. 2018-11-14. en.
  15. News: Forest loss in one part of US can harm trees on the opposite coast. UW News. 2018-11-14. en.
  16. News: Large forest die-offs can have effects that ricochet to distant ecosystems. UW News. 2018-11-14. en.
  17. Web site: BGCWG Biogeochemistry. www.cesm.ucar.edu. en. 2018-11-15.
  18. Web site: 2019 AGU Section Awardees and Named Lecturers . Eos.org . 31 July 2019 . 24 March 2020.
  19. Web site: ESA Fellows . esa.org . 24 March 2020.
  20. Web site: Congratulations to Abigail Swann, named an Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) . environment.uw.edu . 24 March 2020.
  21. Web site: Abigail Swann on Science News' list of 10 young scientists to watch . UW News . 24 March 2020.
  22. Web site: This year's SN 10 enjoy the journey, not just the discovery . Science News . 2 October 2019 . 24 March 2020.
  23. Web site: "Science News" Presents The SN 10: Scientists to Watch . markets.businessinsider.com . 24 March 2020.
  24. Web site: 2018 Chinese-American Symposium. www.nasonline.org. 2018-11-14.
  25. News: UW Environment's Abigail Swann and Alex Gagnon receive NSF Early Career Award College of the Environment. College of the Environment. 2018-11-14. en-US.
  26. Web site: Symposium Scholars and Reports . DISCCRS . en. 2018-11-14.
  27. News: When plants may not help. 2011-12-12. Harvard Gazette. 2018-11-14. en-US.

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