Rempe Receives NSF CAREER Award

December 12, 2023

Jackson School of Geosciences Assistant Professor Daniella Rempe received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation.

Rempe is using the funding to expand a network of critical zone monitors throughout the semi-arid western United States and explore the links between field measurements and satellite data. The critical zone is located just below the Earth’s surface. It’s where trees root and surface water seeps into weathered bedrock.

“With this funding, we can build predictive capacity,” said Rempe. “The Texas climate, for example, is extreme: We need to learn more about how factors like extreme temperatures or successive years of low rainfall can make a drought persist despite the arrival of rains. Measurements below ground are needed to help us test our models.”

Rempe is the third member of the Jackson School of Geosciences hydrogeological faculty to receive this award, following Bayani Cardenas in 2010 and Ashley Matheny in 2021. These awards provide five years of support to scientists who not only lead advances in their academic institution but serve as role models in both research and education.