HMEI Biodiversity Challenge awards $600,000 to inaugural projects exploring the roots of and pressures on biodiversity
September 15, 2021 ・ Morgan KellyThe High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) has awarded nearly $600,000 in inaugural funds from the Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Biodiversity Research Challenge Fund — or Biodiversity Challenge — to six projects led by Princeton University faculty that…
Carbon-chomping soil bacteria may pose hidden climate risk
January 27, 2021 ・ Molly SharlachMuch of the Earth’s carbon is trapped in soil, and scientists have assumed that potential climate-warming compounds would safely stay there for centuries. But Princeton research supported by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) shows that carbon molecules can potentially…
Researchers find nature’s backup plan for converting nitrogen into plant nutrients
November 11, 2019 ・ Joseph AlbaneseAlthough nitrogen is essential for all living organisms — it makes up 3% of the human body — and comprises 78% of Earth’s atmosphere, it’s almost ironically difficult for plants and natural systems to access it. Atmospheric nitrogen is not…
Zhang receives Simons Early Career Award to study the ocean’s nitrogen producers
May 28, 2019 ・ Morgan KellyXinning Zhang, assistant professor of geosciences and the Princeton Environmental Institute, was among nine scientists nationwide to receive a three-year 2019 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Award from the Simons Foundation. An environmental microbiologist, Zhang’s…
PEI Welcomes Four New Faculty Members
February 1, 2017 ・ Joanna M. Foster ’08 for the Princeton Environmental InstituteThe Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) is pleased to welcome Gabriel Vecchi, Luc Deike, Laure Resplandy, and Xinning Zhang.