Neukom Fellow Sophie von Fromm led a new study exploring how soil carbon in northern hardwood forests responds to environmental change–revealing that while deep soil carbon remains stable, the upper litter layer is losing carbon more rapidly. Read more.
Postdocs in the News
Smriti Pehim Limbu, a postdoc in environmental studies, is a co-author on a major new study that created the first public database of spore traits for mycorrhizal fungi. The open-access resource will support research in agriculture, climate resilience, and ecosystem …
Earth sciences postdoc Ari Koeppel reflects on a decade of discoveries since The Martian hit theaters. Drawing on his own research with NASA missions, Koeppel explains how robotic explorers—not astronauts—have reshaped what we know about Mars and why the red …
Who Can Participate:
Open to currently enrolled graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are part of the Guarini School. This includes all postdocs and all graduate students in Guarini programs. (Find your program.)
What You Can Win:
Two randomly …
A study co-authored by postdoc Lynée Turek-Hankins (Neukom Institute for Computational Science) reveals that many Miami homes reach unsafe temperatures because residents can’t afford to run or repair their AC. The findings highlight the urgent need for energy assistance and …
A study co-authored by Dartmouth researchers, including Lucas Price, a former postdoc in geography, and Joseph Savage, a graduate student in the ecology, evolution, environment, and society program (EEES), reveals that up to 50% of adult blacklegged ticks carry Lyme-causing …
Using advanced lidar technology, Robert Weiner, a postdoctoral fellow in the religion department, has uncovered a 1,000-year-old Chacoan road in New Mexico that aligns with the winter solstice sunrise. This finding sheds new light on the astronomical and ritual significance of …
A Dartmouth team, including research associate Yihuang Xiong, PhD candidates Gideon Kassa and Andrew Pike, has discovered an entirely new high-performance material for solar absorbers that is both stable and earth-abundant. Their study, published in Joule, used a unique high-throughput computational screening method to accelerate …
