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Please join
Aspen Global
Change Institute
for a free talk
followed by
audience Q&A.
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Measuring Methane in the Arctic:
Training the
Next Generation
of Researchers
Through Fieldwork
A Walter Orr
Roberts Memorial
Lecture
Tuesday,
October 14, 2025
4:00pm MT /
6:00pm ET
Presented by Dr.
Ruth Varner
Interim Director,
Institute for the
Study of Earth,
Oceans and Space
and Professor
of Biogeochemistry,
University of New
Hampshire
Free and
live-streamed on
Zoom
Talk will be
followed by
audience Q&A
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Measuring
methane emissions
from Arctic
ecosystems requires
accessing remote
locations. This
fieldwork, while
challenging,
provides essential
ground-based data to
compare with models
of these important
climate-sensitive,
carbon-rich regions.
Conducting this
research naturally
involves training
the next generation
of Arctic
researchers. In this
talk, Dr. Ruth
Varner of University
of New Hampshire
will highlight what
we are learning
about these changing
landscapes, as well
as the impact of
engaging students in
complex,
collaborative
research projects.
Following her
talk, Dr. Varner
will answer audience
questions. This talk
is free and open to
the public.
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Dr. Ruth
Varner is
the Interim
Director of
the Institute
for the Study
of Earth,
Oceans and
Space and a
Professor of
Biogeochemistry
in the
Department of
Earth Sciences
and the Earth
Systems
Research
Center at the
University of
New Hampshire.
Her research
focuses on
trace gas
emissions from
terrestrial,
aquatic and
human-managed
ecosystems.
Over the past
several
decades she
has
established
and maintained
long-term
measurements
of methane
emissions from
wetlands and
permafrost
peatlands. She
currently
collaborates
with microbial
ecologists,
remote sensing
specialists,
and modelers
to address
questions of
scaling
processes from
regions to the
globe. She
integrates
graduate and
undergraduate
students into
her research
and outreach.
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that advances global
change science and
solutions by fostering
interdisciplinary
understanding and
linking knowledge with
meaningful action.
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