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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jennifer W. Harden is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, and Indigenous Studies and Ecology.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks, 2021, Science Advances
  • Fire effects on the persistence of soil organic matter and long-term carbon storage, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Circum-Arctic Map of the Yedoma Permafrost Domain, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • An open-source database for the synthesis of soil radiocarbon data: International Soil Radiocarbon Database (ISRaD) version 1.0, 2020, Earth system science data

Collaborations have been frequent with several researchers, including Katerina Georgiou, Robert B. Jackson, Olga Vindušková, Rose Abramoff, and Adam F. A. Pellegrini.

Jennifer W. Harden has contributed regularly to publication venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Earth System Science Data, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and Nature Geoscience.

In recognition of their contributions, the scientist has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2011 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2015.

Best Publications

  • Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

    E. A. G. Schuur;A. D. McGuire;C. Schädel;C. Schädel;Guido Grosse

  • Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps

    Gustaf Hugelius;Jens Strauss;Sebastian Zubrzycki;Jennifer W. Harden

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • The impact of agricultural soil erosion on the global carbon cycle

    K. Van Oost;T. A. Quine;G. Govers;S. De Gryze

  • The impact of boreal forest fire on climate warming.

    J. T. Randerson;H. Liu;M. G. Flanner;S. D. Chambers

  • Sensitivity of boreal forest carbon balance to soil thaw

    M. L. Goulden;S. C. Wofsy;J. W. Harden;Susan E. Trumbore

  • Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon

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  • A quantitative index of soil development from field descriptions: Examples from a chronosequence in central California

    Jennifer W. Harden

  • Moss and soil contributions to the annual net carbon flux of a maturing boreal forest

    J. W. Harden;K. P. O'Neill;Susan E. Trumbore;H. Veldhuis

  • Multi-omics of permafrost, active layer and thermokarst bog soil microbiomes

    Jenni Hultman;Jenni Hultman;Mark P. Waldrop;Rachel Mackelprang;Rachel Mackelprang;Maude David

  • Recent acceleration of biomass burning and carbon losses in Alaskan forests and peatlands

    Merritt R. Turetsky;Evan S. Kane;Jennifer W. Harden;Roger D. Ottmar

  • The Significance of the Erosion-induced Terrestrial Carbon Sink

    Asmeret Asefaw Berhe;John Harte;Jennifer W. Harden;Margaret S. Torn

  • Patterns of NPP, GPP, Respiration and NEP During Boreal Forest Succession

    Michael L. Goulden;Andrew McMillan;Greg Winston;Adrian Rocha

  • Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

    Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Steven D. Allison;Niels H. Batjes

  • The role of fire in the boreal carbon budget.

    J. W. Harden;Susan E. Trumbore;B. J. Stocks;A. Hirsch

  • Vulnerability of high-latitude soil organic carbon in North America to disturbance

    Guido Grosse;Jennifer W. Harden;Merritt Turetsky;A. David McGuire

  • Chemical weathering rates of a soil chronosequence on granitic alluvium: I. Quantification of mineralogical and surface area changes and calculation of primary silicate reaction rates

    Art F. White;Alex E. Blum;Marjorie S. Schulz;Tom D. Bullen

  • Dynamic replacement and loss of soil carbon on eroding cropland

    J.W. Harden;J.M. Sharpe;W.J. Parton;D.S. Ojima

  • Expert assessment of vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change

    E. A. G. Schuur;B. W. Abbott;W. B. Bowden;V. Brovkin

  • Field information links permafrost carbon to physical vulnerabilities of thawing

    Jennifer W. Harden;Charles D. Koven;Chien-Lu Ping;Gustaf Hugelius

  • Spatial heterogeneity and environmental predictors of permafrost region soil organic carbon stocks

    Umakant Mishra;Gustaf Hugelius;Eitan Shelef;Yuanhe Yang

  • Accumulation and turnover of carbon in organic and mineral soils of the BOREAS northern study area

    Susan E. Trumbore;J. W. Harden

  • Short‐term response of methane fluxes and methanogen activity to water table and soil warming manipulations in an Alaskan peatland

    M. R. Turetsky;M. R. Turetsky;C. C. Treat;M. P. Waldrop;J. M. Waddington

  • Dynamics of soil carbon during deglaciation of the laurentide ice sheet.

    Jennifer W. Harden;Robert K. Mark;Eric T. Sundquist;Robert F. Stallard

  • A quantitative comparison of Soil Development in four climatic regimes

    Jennifer W. Harden;Emily M. Taylor

  • Fire effects on soil organic matter content, composition, and nutrients in boreal interior Alaska

    J. C. Neff;J. W. Harden;G. Gleixner

Frequent Co-Authors

A. D. McGuire
A. D. McGuire University of Alaska Fairbanks
Merritt R. Turetsky
Merritt R. Turetsky University of Colorado Boulder
Gustaf Hugelius
Gustaf Hugelius Stockholm University
Edward A. G. Schuur
Edward A. G. Schuur Northern Arizona University
Margaret S. Torn
Margaret S. Torn Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A. David McGuire
A. David McGuire University of Alaska Fairbanks
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Charles D. Koven
Charles D. Koven Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Claire C. Treat
Claire C. Treat Aarhus University

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