Doctoral Research
MIT – Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Heather Throckmorton is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Summons Lab in Cambridge, MA. Her research is focused in the field of astrobiology, studying abiogenesis.
NGEE Arctic – Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments
Heather Throckmorton worked at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico and contributed research to the NGEE Arctic project in conjunction with numerous scientists from other national labs and universities in the US. The NGEE Arctic project studies one of the most climatically sensitive regions on earth, the Arctic region permafrost. This region is experiencing dramatic changes and has the potential to release large amounts of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and methane, into the atmosphere as the permafrost continues to thaw for increasingly longer periods of time. Heather Throckmorton and other research scientists from numerous national labs To learn more about the NGEE Arctic project and Heather Throckmorton’s contributions to the project, follow the link below.
NGEE Arctic Quarterly Report March 31, 2014
Microbial Carbon Cycles
Heather Throckmorton pursued doctoral degree at the University of California at Davis in the Horwath Biogeochemistry and Nutrient Cycling Lab. Her research focused on the carbon lifecycle at the microbial level. For this research, she sampled and analyzed soils from the tropical climate of Puerto Rico and the temperate forests of the Sierra Nevadas in California. This research was published in 2012 in the peer reviewed journal Ecology Letters.
Heather Throckmorton, PhD 
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