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Stephanie Pennington is an earth scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park, MD. Her research topics include data management, open data, coastal forests, ecosystem disturbance and change, and user interfaces for climate models and data visualization. Pennington is also an early career volunteer for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and former chair of the AGU Biogeosciences Section Early Career Committee.

• Coding experience
• Data management
• Data visualization
• Carbon cycling in coastal forests

BS, atmospheric and oceanic science, University of Maryland, College Park

American Geophysical Union, 2018–present

2025

Cruz, R., Bond-Lamberty, B., Montgomery, A., Pennington, S., Seyfferth, A., Wilson, S., and Vargas, R. 2025. “Flooding and Water Chemistry Drive Soil Biogeochemistry and GHG fluxes in a Coastal Forest,” EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-10193, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-10193.

2024

Li B., Z. Li, J. Zheng, P. Jiang, J. Holmquist, P.J. Regier, and G.E. Hammond, et al. 2024. “Integrated Effects of Site Hydrology and Vegetation on Exchange Fluxes and Nutrient Cycling at a Coastal Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface.” Water Resources Research 60, no. 6: Art. No. e2023WR035580. PNNL-SA-187583. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR035580.

Pennington S. C., K. R. Dorheim, J. Bloom Bateman, R. Ulrich, S.A. Burke, and W. Sun. 02/23/2024. “Building a Supportive Environment for Early Career Researchers through Inclusive Networks.” Presented by S.C. Pennington at 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA. PNNL-SA-195478.

Pennington S. C., B. Bond-Lamberty, S. Cheng, and R. Rich. 04/15/2024. “COMPASS-FME Sensor Data Management for Impactful Coastal Science Research.” Presented by S.C. Pennington at ESS Cyberinfrastructure Working Groups Annual Meeting, Reston, VA. PNNL-SA-197404.

Pennington S. C., and B. Bond-Lamberty. 04/10/2024. “TEMPEST real-time data monitoring and sharing.” Presented by S.C. Pennington, B. Bond-Lamberty at SERC GCReW Research Symposium, Edgewater, MD. PNNL-SA-197351.

Pennington S. C., and C. E. Donegan. 06/06/2024. “HectorUI Tutorial.” Presented by S.C. Pennington at 2024 GCAM Annual Meeting, Virtual, Washington, DC. PNNL-SA-199433.

Pennington S. C., R. Rich, S. Cheng, B. Bond-Lamberty, X. Chen, K. H. Maier, and M. G. Degan, et al. 04/16/2024. “A Processing Pipeline for High-Volume, High-Quality Environmental Sensor Data.” Abstract submitted to 2024 ESS PI Meeting, Reston, VA. PNNL-SA-195140.

2023

Ding J., N. G. McDowell, Y. Fang, N. D. Ward, M. Kirwan, P. J. Regier, and J. P. Megonigal, et al. 2023. “Modeling the mechanisms of conifer mortality under seawater exposure.” New Phytologist 239, no. 5:1679-1691. PNNL-SA-186478. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19076.

Mathes, K. C., Pennington, S., Rodriguez, C., et al. 2023. “Sustained Three-Year Declines in Forest Soil Respiration are Proportional to Disturbance Severity.” Ecosystems 26, 1766–1783. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-023-00863-z.

Myers-Pigg, Allison N., et al. 2023. “Biogeochemistry of upland to wetland soils, sediments, and surface waters across Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes coastal interfaces.” Scientific Data, vol. 10, no. 1, Nov. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02548-7.

Morris, Kendalynn A., et al. “PoolDilutionR: An R package for easy optimization of isotope pool dilution calculations.” Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Online), vol. 14, no. 11, Oct. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.14223.

Bond-Lamberty, Ben, et al. “Salinity exposure affects lower-canopy specific leaf area of upland trees in a coastal deciduous forest.” Forest Ecology and Management, vol. 548, Sep. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121404.

Bing, L., Z. Li, J. Zheng, et al. “Integrated Effects of Site Hydrology and Vegetation on Exchange Fluxes and Nutrient Cycling at a Coastal Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface.” ESS Open Archive. August 07, 2023. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.169142376.67269992/v1.

Hopple, Anya M., et al. “Root and Microbial Soil CO₂ Fluxes Respond Differently to Seasonal and Episodic Environmental Changes in a Temperate Forest.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol. 128, no. 8, Jul. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jg007233.

Pennington S. C., L. D. Pressburger, B. Bond-Lamberty, D. J. Day, and R. Vargas. 12/15/2023. “Soil Carbon Model Sensitivity with TEMPEST, a Large-Scale Coastal Forest Manipulation Experiment.” Presented by S.C. Pennington at AGU Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, CA. PNNL-SA-193384.

2022

Morris, K. A., Hornum, S., Crystal-Ornelas, R., Pennington, S. C., and Bond-Lamberty, B. 2022. “Soil respiration response to simulated precipitation change depends on ecosystem type and study duration.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol. 127, no. e2022JG006887. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006887.

2021

Jian, J., Bond-Lamberty, B., Hao, D., Sulman, B. N., Patel, K. F., Zheng, J., Dorheim, K., Pennington, S. C., Hartman, M. D., Warner, D., and Wieder, W. R. 2021. Leveraging observed soil heterotrophic respiration fluxes as a novel constraint on global-scale models. Global Change Biology, vol. 27, 5392–5403. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15795.

Norwood, M. J., Ward, N. D., McDowell, N. G., Myers-Pigg, A. N., Bond-Lamberty, B., Indivero, J., et al. 2021. “Coastal forest seawater exposure increases stem methane concentration.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol. 126, no. e2020JG005915. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005915.

2020

Pennington, S. C., McDowell, N. G., Megonigal, J. P., Stegen, J. C., and Bond-Lamberty, B. 2020. “Localized basal area affects soil respiration temperature sensitivity in a coastal deciduous forest.” Biogeosciences, vol. 17, 771–780. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-771-2020.

2019

Bond-Lamberty, B., Pennington, S. C., Jian, J., Megonigal, J. P., Sengupta, A., and Ward, N. 2019. “Soil respiration variability and correlation across a wide range of temporal scales.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol. 124, 3672–3683. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005265.