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Featured experts

  • Mark Conde

    Mark Conde

    October 28, 2022

    The aurora and how space weather events perturb Earth’s upper atmosphere.

  • Randi Jandt

    Randi Jandt

    October 28, 2022

    Randi Jandt is an expert in Alaska fire ecology, tundra fire, fire management, and wildlife biology.

  • Meriam Karlsson

    Meriam Karlsson

    October 28, 2022

    Meriam Karlsson’s research interests include greenhouse, high tunnel and controlled-environment crop production; plant growth in response to light intensity, quality, day length and the use of LEDs.