Joy Ward is reaping the rewards of her studies on how plants handle global climate change—gathering academic accolades and presidential embraces along the way.
Joy Ward is reaping the rewards of her studies on how plants handle global climate change—gathering academic accolades and presidential embraces along the way.
The Great Sperm Whale, Noble Cows & Hybrid Zebras, Radioactive, Science-Mart
Associate professor, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University. Age: 34
A newbie’s guide to crunching next-generation sequencing data
Two lizard taxonomists champion the use of Bayesian species delimitation to settle taxonomic debates.
Quirk, Darwin's Armada, The Death & Life of Monterey Bay, Elegance in Science
A newly minted PhD finds a 150-billion-base-pair-long DNA molecule in a plant.
Indirect effects of global climate change threaten the health of hundreds of millions of people. The very uncertainty that shrouds this issue must serve as an organizing principle for adaptation to its ill effects.