2022 Waterman Award

美国国家科学基金会(NSF)提名杰西卡·蒂尔尼博士为2022年艾伦·T·沃特曼奖的三名获奖者之一。该奖项是NSF的最高荣誉，每年表彰在提名当年12月31日之前获得博士学位后40岁或以下或不超过10年的杰出研究人员。该奖项资助获奖者在任何科学或工程领域的研究。今年，每位获奖者将在五年内获得100万美元的补助金，用于在他或她的领域进一步深造。蒂尔尼是亚利桑那大学的副教授。她的研究重点是通过古气候学了解地球的历史，古气候学深入研究过去的气候变化，目的是提高对未来的理解。她专注于生成古气候的有机地球化学记录，这些记录来自保存在沉积物和岩石中的化石分子，即生物标记物。蒂尔尼博士的工作得到了认可，她过去曾得到美国国家科学基金会的支持，并被任命为帕卡德基金会研究员、美国地球物理联盟研究员、托马斯·R·布朗综合科学杰出主席的获得者，以及政府间气候变化专门委员会第六次评估报告的主要作者。除了她的研究，Tierney博士还指导本科生和研究生，并在各种研究主题上与博士后学者合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的学术价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Dr. Jessica Tierney one of the three recipients for the 2022 Alan T. Waterman Award round. This award is NSF's highest honor that annually recognizes an outstanding researcher who is 40 years or younger or not more than 10 years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. degree, by December 31 of the year of the nomination. The award funds the recipient's research in any field of science or engineering. This year, each awardee will receive a $1 million grant over a five-year period for further advanced study in his or her field.Dr. Tierney is an associate professor at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on understanding the history of Earth through paleoclimatology, which looks deeply at past climate change, with the goal of improving the understanding of what the future holds. She specializes in generating organic geochemical records of paleoclimate, derived from fossil molecules known as biomarkers that are preserved in sediments and rocks. Dr. Tierney has received recognition for her work, receiving support from NSF in the past and being named a Packard Foundation Fellow, an American Geophysical Union Fellow, a recipient of the Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Integrative Science, and a lead author on the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment report. In addition to her research, Dr. Tierney mentors Undergraduate Students and Graduate Students, and works with Postdoctoral Scholars in a variety of research topics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.