Burrows was recognized for her leadership in advancing understanding connections between biological systems on land and ocean and their chemistry, and physical climate processes in the atmosphere.
Dr. Xiaodong Chen, a postdoctoral research scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been appointed to serve as Associate Editor for the Journal of Hydrometeorology, a publication of the American Meteorological Society
Water management activities could reduce both the duration and intensity of agricultural droughts by a factor of about ten in most regions, while they may increase those of hydrological droughts by up to 50 percent.