Professor Magdalena Osburn awarded an Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation

Professor Magdalena Osburn of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences has been awarded an Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department.

Over the next five years, Professor Osburn will receive $764,417 from the NSF’s Geobiology and Low-Temp Geochemistry Program within the Directorate for Geosciences to study microorganisms that live deep inside the Earth’s crust.

“I am honored to receive this recognition and support from the NSF,” said Professor Magdalena Osburn. “This project brings together lines of research that have been developing in my lab over the last few years, focusing on shallow and deep subsurface microbial ecosystems.”

“This project brings me back to my roots in isotope ecology. This integrative approach will help my group really understand what subsurface microbes eat and unravel what this means for the Earth system today and throughout time,” reflects Osburn.

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