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President Biden announced on April 22 that he is nominating Asmeret Berhe to be director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. With a $7 billion annual budget, the office is the federal government’s largest funder of fundamental research in the physical sciences.
Berhe is a biogeochemist at the University of California, Merced, who researches interactions between organic matter in the soil and environmental shifts such as climate change. This focus aligns with the Biden administration’s climate agenda as well as activities supported through the Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research program.
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University of Reading: AWARD FOR RESEARCHER PROVIDING CUTTING EDGE ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY DATA
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Atmospheric science breakthroughs earn Reading professor research prize
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Release Date 27 April 2021
A University of Reading scientist has been awarded the Christiaan Huygens Medal by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) for his work advancing understanding of electric charge in Earth’s atmosphere.
Professor Giles Harrison’s pioneering use of lightweight instruments fitted to balloons and drones to take atmospheric measurements also confirmed turbulence in the atmosphere of Titan, the moon of Saturn which was discovered by Huygens in 1655.
Professor Harrison’s recent research has had a global impact, with an ongoing project investigating how charge could increase rainfall in the Middle East. This project also involves fellow Meteorology researcher Dr Keri Nicoll, who was last year awarded the Atmospheric and Space Electricity Early Career Award by the American Geophysical Union.
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