Abigail Swann, PhD

@ecoclimatelab.bsky.social

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I study how climate works differently because of plants. Professor at @Univ. of Washington, views are my own. She/her

Map of the eastern part of North America showing air quality with a large plume of bad air quality from fires in Canada that stretches the whole width of the map.
Figure showing timeseries from flat10MIP experiments for total land carbon, soil carbon, vegetation carbon, temperature, and co2.
Photo looking from the ground up at a canopy of oak trees just starting to leaf out.
Figure of global mean surface temperature over years as CO2 is emitted at a constant rate of 10PgC/yr for 300 years. Temperature increases linearly through this range, with a different slope for each of several Earth System Models.
Figure showing cumulative fossil fuel emissions on the x-axis and global mean surface temperature on the y-axis. The data is plotted for 1850-2024 and show a very linear relationship.
List of Ecoclimate Lab talks and posters. You can generate this list by searching the AGU schedule for "Abigail Swann"
Two bikes loaded with gear and a bike trailer on the front of a boat.
A stand at a library with books displayed including “Human Nature”.
A photo of bicycle handlebars with a small screen showing the number 6000.
Photo of a book titled “inventory of glaciers in the north cascades, Washington”
Photo of a sign that reads “silencing scientists won’t stop global warming but zero emissions will!” With the seattle space needle in the background.
Photo of a person wearing warm clothes standing in front of a bicycle the background is snowy.
Screenshot of the ncei webpage from a mobile device browser.
Screen shot of text saying “The content provided gives details about his background, education, and a recommendation, but it's clear this is not a real person.”
A photo of a bright rainbow and a faint double rainbow.
Map of globe showing where temperature, radiation, and water are each the most limiting factor for photosynthesis
A bowl that contains Halloween candy and a potato.
Photo of green and purple aurora
A child riding a bike down a street closed to cars.
Photo of a Siamese cat and hand holding a pin that reads “cat ladies for Kamala”
Photo of Green and purple lights in a night sky
Photo of a blue bicycle with four bags of soil tied to the rear rack
Diagram describing strategies that we identified that confer high performance for maize: Early starting, Slow Aging, Stress Averting, High Yielding, Compensating, Middle Ground, Large Canopy. They are roughly ordered by the time in the season when this strategy transitions from vegetative growth to reproductive growth.