Ruth Varner is a Professor of Biogeochemistry in the Department of Earth Sciences and the Director for the Earth Systems Research Center in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire (UNH). She is also the Director of UNH’s Joan and James Leitzel Center for Mathematics, Science and Engineering Education. Her current research focus is on carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions in terrestrial ecosystems, with a focus on the measurement of trace gas emissions from agricultural, forested, wetland and lake ecosystems with funded projects from NASA, DOE and NSF.

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