PhD Earth System Science, University of California Irvine
MS Earth System Science, University of California Irvine
BS Environmental Science, Oklahoma State University
Professional Experience
NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, JPL 2018-present
Research Assistant, Earth System Science Department, UC Irvine 2012-2017
Teaching Assistant, Earth System Science Department, UC Irvine 2012-2017
NASA Student Airborne Research Program, Armstrong Flight Research Center 2011
Research Interests
Using isotopes to investigate the origins of methane and carbon dioxide emissions from permafrost regions
Aircraft remote sensing of Boreal and Arctic methane emissions
Merging the scales of in-situ observations with high resolution remote sensing datasets to constrain complex ecological processes in the Arctic
Selected Awards
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship (2017)
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Fellowship (2014)
Selected Publications
Elder, C.D., Thompson, D.R., Thorpe, A.K., H. Chandanpurkar, Hanke, P.J., Hasson, N., James, S., Minsley, B., Pastick, N., D. Olefeldt, Walter Anthony, K.M., Miller, C.E. (2021). Characterizing methane emission hotspots from thawing permafrost. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35(12), e2020GB006922.
Baskaran, L., Elder, C., Bloom, A. A., Ma, S., Thompson, D., & Miller, C. E. (2021). Geomorphological patterns of remotely sensed methane hot spots in the Mackenzie Delta, Canada. Environmental Research Letters (In Press).
Miner, K.M., Turetsky, M., Fernandez-Prieto, D., Bartsch, A., Tamminen, J., Fix, A., Sweeney, C., Malina, E., Elder, C.D., Miller, C.E. Dynamic Permafrost Carbon in the New Arctic. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (Accepted).
Schimel, D., Schneider, F., Bloom, A., Bowman, K., Cawse-Nicholson, K., Elder, C.D., Ferraz, A., Fisher, J., Hulley, G., Liu, J., Magney, T., Meyer, V., Miller C.E., Parazoo, N., Pavlick, R., Podest, E., Saatchi, S., Stavros, N., Keller, M., Townsend, P., Zheng, T. (2019). Flux towers in the sky: global ecology from space. New Phytologist.
Elder, C. D., Thompson, D. R., Thorpe, A. K., Hanke, P., Walter Anthony, K. M., & Miller, C. E. (2020). Airborne Mapping Reveals Emergent Power Law of Arctic Methane Emissions. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(3), e2019GL085707.
Elder, C. D., Schweiger, M., Lam, B., Crook, E. D., Xu, X., Walker, J., ... & Czimczik, C. I. (2019). Seasonal Sources of Whole‐Lake CH4 and CO2 Emissions From Interior Alaskan Thermokarst Lakes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124(5), 1209-1229.
Elder, C. D., Xu, X., Walker, J., Schnell, J. L., Hinkel, K. M., Townsend-Small, A., ... & Czimczik, C. I. (2018). Greenhouse gas emissions from diverse Arctic Alaskan lakes are dominated by young carbon. Nature Climate Change, 8(2), 166-171.