Abigail Swann

Professor, Atmospheric and Climate Science

Professor, Biology

(206) 616-0486

ATG 506

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

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Areas of Expertise
  • Ecoclimate
  • Biosphere-climate feedbacks
  • Climate and ecosystem modeling
Courses
  • ATMOS 350
  • ATMOS 588
Awards
  • Walter Orr Roberts Lecture, American Meteorological Society, 2021
  • Global Environmental Change Early Career Award, American Geophysical Union, 2019
  • Early Career Fellow, Ecological Society of America, 2019
  • Science News’ 10 Scientists to Watch, 2019
  • Jon C. Graff, Ph.D. Prize for Excellence in Science Communications, 2019
  • Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, American Geophysical Union, 2019
  • Fellow, Kavli Frontiers of Science run by the National Academy, 2018
  • NSF CAREER Faculty Early Career Development Award (2016-2020)
  • Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science at the Harvard Kennedy School (2010-2012)

 

Service
  • Member Atmospheric Sciences Committee on Graduate Studies (2024)
  • Chair Atmospheric Sciences Department Strategic Planning Committee (2023)
  • Member Atmospheric Sciences Department Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2022-ongoing)
  • Chair Atmospheric Sciences Department Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2017-2019, 2021-2022)
  • Member Biology Department Diversity and Equity Committee (2021-2022)
  • Member of Biology Department Graduate and Postdoc Program Committee (2017-2019-2021)
Selected publications

  • Zarakas, C. M.; Kennedy, D.; Dagon, K.; Lawrence, D. M.; Liu, A.; Bonan, G.; Koven, C. D.; Lombardozzi, D.; Swann, A. L. S. Land Processes Can Substantially Impact the Mean Climate State. in press at Geophys. Res. Lett. doi: 10.31223/X50T2F.

  • Zarakas C. M.; Swann, A. L. S.; Koven, C. D.; Smith, M. N.; Taylor, T. C. (2024) Different model assumptions about plant hydraulics and photosynthetic temperature acclimation yield diverging implications for tropical forest resilience. Global Change Biology. doi:10.31223/X52T3

  • Lee BH, Munger JW, Wofsy SC, Rizzo LV, Yoon JY, Turner A, Thornton JA, Swann ALS. Sensitive response of atmospheric oxidative capacity to the uncertainty in the emissions of nitric oxide (NO) from soils in Amazonia. (2024) Geophs. Res. Lett. doi:10.22541/au.170216705.57529491/v1

  • J. Hsiao, Kim, S.-H., Timlin, D. J., Mueller, N. D., and Swann, A. L. S. (2024) Model- aided climate adaptation for future maize in the US, 2024 Environmental Research: Food Systems, 1(1):015004, 2024. doi:10.1088/2976-601X/ad3085.

  • Shum, G.M., Laguë, M.M., Rushley, S., Swann, A.L.S., (2023) Beautiful Days in the, Neighborhood: Land-Atmosphere Interactions as Drivers of Forest Expansion, Earth Interactions 27(1), doi:10.1175/EI-D-22-0017.1

  • Koven, C.D., Sanderson, B.M., Swann, A.L.S., (2023) Much of Zero Emissions Commitment Occurs Before Reaching Net Zero Emissions, 2023 Environmental Research Letters 18(1):014017, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/acab1a