Hope Jahren
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Hope Jahren is an American geobiologist whose research uses geochemistry and stable-isotope analysis to study plants, past environments, and climate. She has held research and teaching positions at several universities and is also known for Lab Girl, her memoir about scientific work and her life as a researcher. [7]
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Career and work
Jahren is a geobiologist whose research has focused on how plants record information about climate and the environment in their tissues. Her work has used stable-isotope geochemistry to study questions ranging from ancient ecosystems to modern plant physiology and carbon cycling. [7]
She has held faculty positions at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, and the University of Oslo. Her scientific work has been recognized with three Fulbright Awards and the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union. [8]
Jahren is also the author of Lab Girl (2016), a memoir about scientific research, laboratory life, and her path through academia, and The Story of More (2020), which examines climate change, resource use, and environmental pressures. [8]
What has been publicly discussed
“It may be chemicals in my brain but it doesn’t change just how real the experiences were for me.”
— Hope Jahren [3]
