Fellow Story
Margaret Torn went to Alaska as part of research for the Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments
Soil scientist Margaret Torn, another member of Berkeley Lab’s Earth Sciences Division who traveled to Alaska, will lead the effort to quantify the land’s energy balance. Her group will explore how permafrost degradation affects albedo, which is the reflection of solar radiation back into space. Her group will also study the flow of energy from the surface to the subsurface, a phenomenon that speeds up permafrost thaw.
