Author Profile: R Heisman

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Climate Change

Refinery, including a gas flare flame that is part of the plant’s normal operations, in Anacortes in Washington.

News 14 November 2016

Carbon Tax Initiative Fails in Washington State

Environmental groups were divided over the nation's first carbon tax ballot measure.

Atmospheric Sciences

Methane-releasing vegetation flourishes in small freshwater Arctic tundra ponds

News 22 September 2016

Aquatic Plants May Accelerate Arctic Methane Emissions

About two thirds of the gas produced by a study area near Barrow, Alaska, came from increasingly abundant greenery covering only 5% of the landscape, researchers estimate.

Atmospheric Sciences

A scientist takes a smoke sample from a smoldering peat fire in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

News 9 June 2016

The 2015 Indonesian Fires: Less Carbon Release Than Was Thought

Preliminary results from field measurements of smoldering Kalimantan peatlands suggest that the fires emitted 8% less carbon dioxide and 55% less methane than were previously estimated from lab tests.

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Biogeosciences

News 29 March 2016

Algae Blooms and Gas Wells Drive Lake Erie Methane Emissions

In one of the first studies to investigate large lakes as methane sources, researchers found that Lake Erie is releasing more of the potent greenhouse gas than expected.

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News 9 December 2015

Ships Bring More Than Cargo to Arctic Waters

A probe of ballast water in ships at an Arctic port finds hitchhiking organisms that polar warming could allow to invade the region's ecosystems in less than 40 years.

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Publications from R. Heisman

Carbon Tax Initiative Fails in Washington State

Aquatic Plants May Accelerate Arctic Methane Emissions

The 2015 Indonesian Fires: Less Carbon Release Than Was Thought

Algae Blooms and Gas Wells Drive Lake Erie Methane Emissions

Ships Bring More Than Cargo to Arctic Waters

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NSF Grant: AGU and Partners Aim at Gender Issues in Geosciences

2017 Class of AGU Fellows Announced

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Spatial and temporal variability of sea-level rise hotspots over the eastern United States

Winter to summer oceanographic observations in the Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard

Organic matter remineralization in marine sediments: A Pan-Arctic synthesis

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