Katey M. Walter Anthony (born Katey Marion Walter) is an

Alaskan Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S ...

aquatic ecologist and biogeochemist researching carbon and nutrient cycling between terrestrial and aquatic systems, and the cryosphere and atmosphere.

Education

Walter Anthony graduated magna cum laude from

Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United State ...

(1998). She has an M.Sc in Ecology from the University of California, Davis (2000) and a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (2006).

Career and research

Walter Anthony has conducted research projects in Russia, Germany, Central America and the United States. During her master's research, Walter Anthony worked on the biogeochemistry of an invasive aquatic plant, Eurasian Watermilfoil. In 2007, Walter Anthony started an International Polar Year Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks Walter Anthony's current research focuses on methane and carbon dioxide emissions from arctic and temperate lakes and wetlands in Alaska and

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part o ...

, and the processes involved in

greenhouse gas emissions Greenhouse gas emissions from human activities strengthen the greenhouse effect, contributing to climate change. Most is carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels: coal, oil, and natural gas. The largest emitters include coal in China and ...

from lakes, including thermokarst (permafrost thaw), industrial plant emissions, geology, and changes in lake area. By capturing methane flowing from lakes into the atmosphere, Walter Anthony estimated up to 2.5 Pg of carbon was released into the atmosphere during the previous 60 years. In the ''New York Times'', Walter Anthony describes first finding bursts of methane escaping from lakes in Siberia and bubbling out of lakes in Alaska and Greenland. Walter Anthony, who is fluent in Russian, works as project coordinator at Chersky for joint Russian-U.S. projects over the International Polar Year, aiming to network arctic observatories in Alaska and Russia for long term monitoring of climate change in cold regions. Walter Anthony is co-PI of th
Arctic Observatory Network
which is a project funded by the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

that is developing long-term data sets in Alaska and Siberia.

Awards

* EPA STAR Fellowship (2000) *CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award (2006) *National Wildlife Federation: National Conservation Achievement Award in Science (2009) *National Geographic Emerging Explorer (2009) * Mary Lyon Award from Mount Holyoke College for "exceptional promise or sustained achievement" (2010) *Fellow, Wings WorldQuest (2011
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*Usibelli Award - Distinguished Research Award, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2019)

References

External links

*
YouTube video
where Walter Anthony demonstrates the flammability of methane from Arctic lakes {{DEFAULTSORT:Walter Anthony, Katey American ecologists Women ecologists American geochemists American limnologists Living people Mount Holyoke College alumni University of California, Davis alumni University of Alaska Fairbanks alumni Women earth scientists Year of birth missing (living people) Women limnologists