CV / Resume

Heather Throckmorton, Ph.D.

heather.throckmorton@agilent.com | heather.throckmorton@gmail.com

SUMMARY:

My professional experiences meet at the intersection between technical hard science and science communication, outreach, and marketing. My current role allows me to combine my passions for science and communication through science marketing, across a range of science applications. Previously, I spent over 15 years as a scientist conducting multidisciplinary research across a wide range of research areas in health and environmental sciences gaining extensive technical, analytical, and communication skills.

EDUCATION:                                                            

Ph.D. Soil Biogeochemistry, University of California, Davis. Sept 2012.

B.S. Environmental Geology, University of Southern Maine. Summa Cum Laude. May 2006.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Agilent Cell Analysis, Marketing Applications Manager, Science Marketing, Lexington, MA.   Feb 2017 – Present

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Organic Geochemistry, Postdoctoral Associate. Cambridge, MA. Feb 2016 – Feb 2017 

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Hydrology / Environmental Chemistry, Postdoctoral Associate. Los Alamos, NM. Dec 2012 – Jan 2016

University of California, Davis, Soil Biogeochemistry, Doctoral Research Associate. Davis, CA. June 2006 – Nov 2012

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Oceanography, Summer Undergraduate Intern. Greenbelt, MD. June 2005 – Sept 2005

University of Southern Maine, Environmental Toxicology, Undergraduate Researcher. Portland, ME. June 2004 – May 2006

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Technical content and literature database management.
  • Marketing, science and technical writing, science communication.
  • Project management overseeing large research projects with budgets over one million dollars.
  • Collaboration experience working with >150 researchers across several multi-institution projects.
  • Supervisory experience in overseeing 8 undergraduate researchers and 2 research technologists.
  • Complex statistical and quantitative data analysis experience.
  • Analytical chemical, biological, and environmental skills.
  • Technical writing: Publishing in 9 scientific journals, and numerous project summary reports.
  • Teaching and presentation/public speaking skills.

FUNDING AND AWARDS:

  • 12 Successful competitive research grants and fellowships awarded, totaling >$150,000.
  • Publication selected by editors for American Geophysical Union-Eos Research Spotlight (Throckmorton et al., 2015).
  • Outstanding Presentation Award Honorable Mention at Los Alamos National Laboratory Postdoctoral Research Day in 2013 AND 2014.
  • Outstanding Presentation Award Honorable Mention International Humic Substance Society 15th Annual Meeting in Spain.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Mcfarlane, K.J., Throckmorton, H.M., Heikoop, J.M., et al. (2022). Age and chemistry of dissolved organic carbon reveal enhanced leaching of ancient labile carbon at the permafrost thaw zone. Biogeosciences.
  • Heckman, K., Throckmorton, H., Horwath, W., et al. (2018). Variation in the Molecular Structure and Radiocarbon Abundance of Mineral-Associated Organic Matter across a Lithosequence of Forest Soils. Soil Systems.
  • Rasmussen, C., Throckmorton, H., Liles, G., et al. (2018). Controls on Soil Organic Carbon Partitioning andStabilization in the California Sierra Nevada. Soil Systems.
  • Throckmorton, H., Perkins, G., Feng, X., et al. (2016). Characterizing active layer hydrology in the Arctic Coastal Plain using stable isotopes. Hydrological Processes.
  • Throckmorton, H., Perkins, G., Altmann, G., et al. (2015). Pathways and transformations of dissolved methane and dissolved inorganic carbon in Arctic tundra soils: Evidence from analysis of stable isotopes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. ***Selected as a featured paper and Research Spotlight on the AGU Eos website.
  • Heikoop, J., Throckmorton, H., Newman, B., et al. (2015). Isotopic identification of soil and permafrost nitrate sources in an Arctic tundra ecosystem. JGR Biogeosciences.
  • Newman, B., Throckmorton, H., Graham, D., et al. (2015). Microtopographic and depth controls on active layer chemistry in Arctic polygonal ground. Geophysical Research Letters.
  • Throckmorton, H., Monte, N., Doane, T., et al. (2015). The soil matrix increases microbial C stabilization in temperate and tropical forest soils. Biogeochemistry.
  • Heckman, K., Throckmorton, H., Horwath, W.R., et al. (2014). Factors affecting the molecular structure and mean residence time of occluded organics in a lithosequence of soils under ponderosa pine. Soil Biology and Biochemistry.
  • Throckmorton, H., Bird, J.A., Dane, L. et al. (2012). The source of microbial C has little impact on soil organic matter stabilization in forest ecosystems. Ecology Letters 15, 1257-65.

PUBLISHED DATASETS:

PRESENTATIONS AND TEACHING:

  • Invited Lectures: 5 invited talks at research institutions throughout the United States and Germany.
  • Conference Presentations: 27 refereed conference papers at national and international conferences including in Austria, Spain, and Russia. 3 Honorable Mention presentation awards. 1 Plenary selected presentation with an audience of >500 people.
  • Teaching Assistant: for 6 courses in chemistry and geography (course development and lecturing).

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:

  • Agilent After School Science Program https://www.agilent.com/comm_relation/comty_actn_aas.shtml
  • MIT ‘Green Labs Initiative’, Representative for Summon’s Geobiology Laboratory.
  • Scientific expert for Bradbury Science Museum. Voice recordings of scientific discussion to be included in a touch-screen exhibit about soil biogeochemistry and climate change (2015).
  • Scientific outreach blog for Arctic research (2013): http://ngeearctic.blogspot.com/search/label/Heather%20Throckmorton
  • Peer review for 7 scientific journals (2012-2015).
  • Board-member for University of California, Davis Chancellor’s Graduate and Professional Student Advisory Board (2009-2011).
  • Member of Engineers without Borders (2007-2010).
  • Chair: Publicity and Media Committee: Interdisciplinary Graduate and Professional Student Symposium (2010).
  • Mentored a high school student in conducting a year long research project EnvironMentors (2009).
  • EnvironMentors: Assistant program director (2009).
  • High school outreach: 3 presentations at high schools in Maine and New Mexico (2012-2015).
  • Vice President of Geology Club at University of Southern Maine (2005-2006).