Anne Hope Jahren | |
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Fields | Geochemistry, Geobiology, Stable isotopic analysis |
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Thesis | The stable isotope composition of the hackberry (celtis) and its use as a paleoclimate indicator (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | Ronald G. Amundson |
Website | jahrenlab |
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“The secret life of plants — and ‘Lab Girl’ author Hope Jahren”, PBS NewsHour | |
“Lab Girl by Hope Jahren”, Knopf Doubleday |
Anne Hope Jahren (born September 27, 1969) is an American geochemist and geobiologist at the University of Oslo in Norway, known for her work using stable isotope analysis to analyze fossil forests dating to the Eocene. She has won many awards in the field, including the James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union.
Her book Lab Girl (2016) has been praised as both "a personal memoir and a paean to the natural world", a literary fusion of memoir and science writing, and "a compellingly earthy narrative".[1][2][3][4]