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= Annette Summers Engel = Annette Summers Engel (born 1972) is Donald and Florence Jones Professor of Aqueous Geochemistry in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She studies karst geology and geochemistry, the molecular microbial ecology of extreme environments and symbiotic associations, and the mechanisms which microorganisms use in colonising different environments on Earth.

Education
From the age of 12, Annette Summers Engel has been interested in joining the academia and wanted to be a professor. She was inspired by scientists who were able to bridge disciplinary boundaries while studying cave geology and biology. Her educational training aimed to link geology and biology, geology and microbiology, and geochemistry and physics. She received her B.A in Geology in 1995 from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio and M.Sc from both Biological Sciences (1999) and Geology (1997) from University of Cincinnati, Ohio. She received her Ph.D. in Geological Sciences in 2004 from The University of Texas at Austin under supervision of Dr. Philip C. Bennett.

Research
Annette Summers Engel's research examines the microbial diversity and ecology of extreme environments and symbiotic associations, from caves to shallow marine systems. She investigates how geological, geochemical, and environmental conditions control the distribution of life in the landscape, and delineates how life, in turn, shapes that environment through time. Because knowledge of biodiversity in these places is generally limited, and many subsurface and shallow near-surface environments are at risk of being destroyed or irreparably damaged, the first goal for her research is to determine the biodiversity, which requires tedious, and sometimes risky, human exploration. Her research is leading to new exploration strategies that can help in the management and conservation of undescribed subsurface environments. Her work is providing important information about the critical role of the subsurface to human populations.

https://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/Subterranean-life-thrives-deep-in-water-system-1894622.php

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/subterranean-surprises-69016547/

https://www.nature.com/news/2004/040503/full/040503-12.html

Scientific career
2011 – July 2016 Jones Associate Professor of Aqueous Geochemistry. University of Tennessee, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, Tennessee.

2011 – 2012 Adjunct Associate Professor. Louisiana State University, Department of Geology & Geophysics

2010 – 2011 Associate Professor of Geomicrobiology. Louisiana State University, joint appointment to the Department of Geology & Geophysics (primary department, 75%) and Department of Biological Sciences (secondary department, 25%)

2010 – 2013 Adjunct Doctoral Graduate Faculty. Texas State University, Department of Biology, San Marcos, Texas

2004 – 2010 Assistant Professor of Geomicrobiology. Louisiana State University, joint appointment to the Department of Geology & Geophysics and Department of Biological Sciences (secondary)

1999 – 2004 Research and/or Graduate Teaching Assistant. University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences. Funded by National Science Foundation, John Jackson Fellowship for Hydrology, and University of Texas Endowed Presidential Fellowship.

1997 – 1999 Graduate Teaching Assistant. Univ. of Cincinnati, Department of Biological Sciences.

1995 – 1996 Graduate Teaching Assistant. University of Cincinnati, Department of Geology.

Awards and honours
National Speleological Society Science Award 2014

Fellow of the Geological Society of America 2012

Fellow of the National Speleological Society (2003) (<6% of the membership reaches Fellow status; nominated and elected by peers and committee) University

G.M. Hall Professorship for Extraordinary Service, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Strong Hall New Building Committee, University of Tennessee (2014)

UT Quest Scholar of the Week, October 7, 2013

Professional memberships
Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation

American Chemical Society

International Society for Microbial Ecology (Member of the International Advisory Committee 2011-,Chair 2020-2023)

International Symbiosis Society 2009-present Karst Waters Institute (Director, Officer)

AAAS 2003-present American Geophysical Union

American Society of Microbiology 1998-present Geological Society of America (Fellow)

Sigma Xi (Full Member) 1994-present National Speleological Society (#31319Life, JM, SA, Fellow)

Board Member, Cave Conservancy of the Virginias

Awards Committee, Cave Conservancy of the Virginias

Member of different university program committees

Reviewer for research funding schemes and programs

Fellow of the Explorers Club in 2015

As a student, Dr. Engel was intrigued by research at interdisciplinary interfaces. Her educational training aimed to link geology and biology, geology and microbiology, and geochemistry and physics, and her research interests today reflect this early desire to be an interdisciplinary scientist. Her research interests span karst geology and geochemistry, the molecular microbial ecology of extreme environments and symbiotic associations, and on how life (microbes and animals) is distributed in a landscape through time, controlled by geological and environmental conditions. Dr. Engel holds a PhD from The University of Texas at Austin, focused on the disciplines of geochemistry and geomicrobiology. As a professor at Louisiana State University and most recently at the University of Tennessee, her goal is to teach and mentor students as close to disciplinary interfaces as possible. She has explored thermal extreme environments, including Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming (USA), El Tatio geyser field in the northern Atacama Desert, Chile, and the Tengchong geothermal area of China. Most recently, her research expanded to study the geochemical and physical parameters that influence change in marine microbial communities through time, such as from anthropogenic activities like oil spills or from sea-level rise. She has conducted research of sandy beaches and muddy coastal marshes. Her interest in symbiosis, which is the obligate association of two or more distinct species, has involved working on the microbiomes of cave beetles, alligators, and clams. In particular, her current research focuses on understanding the taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity of lucinid clams, their bacterial endosymbionts, and microbes within the habitat associated with vegetation, including seagrasses and mangroves. Dr. Engel has been an avid caver since her childhood, and she has done research in many cave and karst regions in the United States, and has also studied the Movile Cave in Romania, the Frasassi Caves in Italy, and karst springs and caves in Slovenia, Italy, The Bahamas, Mexico, and China. The focus of her karst research has been on systems influenced by sulfidic waters and formed from sulfuric acid speleogenesis. Dr. Engel is also actively investigating the biological diversity of caves in eastern Tennessee, which have potentially high levels of endemism but very little is known about the cave ecosystems. She recently started research on lava tube biodiversity in Hawai'i. Her research has been generously funded by the National Science Foundation, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, Cave Conservancy Foundation, and other agencies. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, dozens of other scholarly contributions, including large datasets and book chapters, and has edited five books. She has been an active officer and Board Member of the Karst Waters Institute since 2005, serving for 8 years as the Vice President for Communications. She currently is a Board Member of the Cave Conservancy of Hawai'i, chair of the student scholarship committee for the Cave Conservancy Foundation, and is on the International Advisory Committee for the International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry. She als served on the board of directors for the Cave Conservancy of the Virginias from 2013 - 2019. Dr. Engel has received awards for her photography, has been honored for her research and scholarship at both universities for which she has worked, is a past recipient of the James G. Mitchell award from the National Speleological Society, and is a past recipient of a Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation award. She is a Fellow of the National Speleological Society and the Geological Society of America, and is the 2014 recipient of the Science Award from the National Speleological Society. She was elected as a Fellow of the Explorers Club in 2015.

Funding

Media appearances
Dr. Engel's research in Hawaiian lava tubes (read about here) was

featured in a Nature PBS documentary in February, 2019!

"Living Volcanoes."

Big Orange Big Ideas: Rocky Top Tennessee - YouTubeIn 2016, I (along with Audrey and Scott) had the chance to help film a short bit in a UT commercial. We filmed the cave portion "...down in the Tennessee hills..." in nearby Cherokee Caverns. The commercial played during breaks at fall football games, and in 2016 and 2017 the commercial was shown on all major television and cable networks. It was so much fun, and I hope to get a chance to do some more filming soon. Enjoy!

Horizon (TV Series documentary) Herself

- The Secret Life of Caves (2003) ... Herself (as Dr. Annette Summers Engel)

https://news.utk.edu/2013/09/30/annette-engel-receives-nsf-award/

Books and book chapters, other nonscientific publications
= Margaret S. Torn = Margaret S(?) Torn (born 19xx), is xxx scientist working in earth and environmental sciences in laurence berkeley, USA.

AGU fellow 2017, soil carbon cycle and climate, elected AGU chair for biogeosciences division 2018.

external links?
https://eesa.lbl.gov/profiles/margaret-s-torn/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTatW9rslrA

https://www.gcb.uzh.ch/en/aboutus/AdvisoryBoard/torn_margaret.html

https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/torn-margaret/

http://recognition.lbl.gov/laureates/

https://eesa.lbl.gov/margaret-torn-receives-honorary-doctorate/

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/dbnl-bls090904.php

https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2013/09/12/the-great-escape-how-soil-microbes-protect-us-from-carbon-emissions/

http://time.com/4697227/soil-climate-change-carbon-sink/

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2004/04/30/land-and-carbon-an-interview-with-margaret-torn/

Nancy Beth Grimm, AGU fellow 2017, integration of desert and urban aquatic and terrestrial biogeochemistry with ecological and social theory to advance a biogeoscience of cities