Abigail Swann

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]

Abigail L.S. Swann
Alma materPh.D. University of California, Berkeley B.A. Columbia University
AwardsKavli Frontiers of Science Fellow, 2018

NSF CAREER Award, 2016

DISCCRS VI Scholar, 2011
Scientific career
Fieldsatmospheric science, ecology
Websitehttp://faculty.washington.edu/aswann/

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.[7]

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