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.
Improving water conservation in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model's atmosphere component has important implications for projecting sea level change.