Margaret Powell

  • Program Year: 1
  • Academic Institution: Columbia University
  • Field of Study: Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Academic Advisor: Pierre Gentine, and Robert Pincus
  • Practicum(s): Practicum Not Yet Completed
  • Degree(s):
    B.A. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard College, 2019

Publications

Ludwig, S. M., Natali, S. M., Schade, J. D., Powell, M., Fiske, G., Schiferl, L. D., & Commane, R. (2023). Scaling waterbody carbon dioxide and methane fluxes in the arctic using an integrated terrestrial-aquatic approach. Environmental Research Letters, 18(6), 064019.

Ludwig, S.M., Natali, S.M., Mann, P.J., Schade, J.D., Holmes, R.M., Powell, M., Fiske, G. and Commane, R. (2022). Using Machine Learning to Predict Inland Aquatic CO2 and CH4 Concentrations and the Effects of Wildfires in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007146

Dabrowski, J.S., Charette, M.A., Mann, P.J., Ludwig, S.M., Natali, S.M., Holmes, R.M., Schade, J.D., Powell, M. and Henderson, P.B., 2020. Using radon to quantify groundwater discharge and methane fluxes to a shallow, tundra lake on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska. Biogeochemistry, 148(1), pp.69-89. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-020-00647-w

Russotto, R.D., Caffrey, M., Powell, M., Lepore, C., Schneider, E., Dwyer, J.G., Qaddoumi, A., Dinh, L. and Simonetti, M., 2022, December. Global Calculations of Tropical Cyclone Return Periods and an ACE-like Risk Metric. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. A22G-1762).

Powell, M., Commane, R., Ludwig, S., Mann, P.J., Schade, J.D., Natali, S., Wofsy, S.C. and Fiske, G., 2018, December. Integration of Ground-based and Airborne Measurements Shows Substantial Methane Emissions from Freshwater Ecosystems in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2018, pp. B31F-2547).

Awards

Phi Beta Kappa (2019)
Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly research (2019)
John Harvard Scholar (2017-2019)
Martin McPeck Prize (2018)
Detur Book Prize (2016)