Rate My Professor Natalie Mahowald

Mahowald's research focuses on earth system feedbacks influencing climate change, with emphasis on the global and regional atmospheric transport of biogeochemically active substances like desert dust and interactions with the carbon cycle. Her group, Aerosol-Biogeochemistry-Climate Interactions, utilizes advanced three-dimensional global transport and climate models integrated with satellite and in situ observations. Notable publications include "Global iron connections between desert dust, ocean biogeochemistry, and climate" published in Science in 2005, "Atmospheric global dust cycle and iron inputs to the ocean" in Global Biogeochemical Cycles in 2005, "Are the impacts of land use on warming underestimated in climate policy?" in Environmental Research Letters in 2017, and aerosol-related papers in Nature Communications in 2018. As a lead author for the 2018 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, her scholarship has profoundly shaped understandings of aerosol impacts on climate and biogeochemistry. Mahowald has been honored with the AAAS Fellowship (2020), AGU Fellowship (2013), Guggenheim Fellowship (2013), American Meteorological Society Fellowship (2011), and the Henry G. Houghton Award (2006), among others. Named a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in 2015, her publications have amassed over 62,000 citations, underscoring her significant influence in the academic community.