17 Facts About Hope Jahren

Anne Hope Jahren was born on September 27,1969 and is an American geochemist and geobiologist at the University of Oslo in Norway, known for her work using stable isotope analysis to analyze fossil forests dating to the Eocene.

Hope Jahren has won many awards in the field, including the James B Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union.

Hope Jahren's father taught science at a community college and she has three older brothers.

Hope Jahren's dissertation covered the formation of biominerals in plants and used novel stable isotope methods to examine the processes.

Hope Jahren spent a year on a Fulbright Award at the University of Copenhagen, learning DNA analysis techniques.

Hope Jahren left Johns Hopkins for a full professorship at the University of Hawaii.

On September 1,2016, Jahren became the J Tuzo Wilson Professor at the University of Oslo's Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, where she studies how living and fossil organisms are chemically linked to the environment.

Hope Jahren discusses her experiences as a woman in the scientific field and reflects on the life lessons she learned during her childhood.

Hope Jahren encompasses topics such as gender dynamics in STEM fields, the challenges encountered by women scientists, and her personal and professional journey to success as a scientist and author.

Hope Jahren has received three Fulbright Awards: in 1992 for geology work in Norway, in 2003 for environmental science work in Denmark, and in 2010 for arctic science work in Norway.

In 2001, Hope Jahren won the Donath Medal, awarded by the Geological Society of America.

Hope Jahren was profiled by Popular Science magazine in 2006 as one of its "Brilliant 10" scientists.

Hope Jahren was a 2013 Leopold Fellow at Stanford University's Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

Hope Jahren was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2018.

Hope Jahren is an advocate for raising public awareness of science and has been working to lift the stereotype surrounding women and girls in science.

Subsequently, Hope Jahren encouraged fellow scientists, specifically girls, to tweet pictures of their hands conducting scientific experiments.

Hope Jahren recommends that people draw strong professional boundaries, and that they carefully document what occurs, beginning with the first occasion of harassment.