Heather Graven

Heather Graven is a Professor of Climate Physics at Imperial College London's Department of Physics, part of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. She leads the Carbon Cycle Research group and is affiliated with the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, and the Physics of Life initiative. Her work focuses on the global carbon cycle's response to human activities and climate change, integrating atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial observations with models.

Education:

• PhD 2008: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
• MS 2003: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
• BS 2001: Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Research Interests:

• Interactions between biogeochemistry and climate
• Anthropogenic CO₂ sources/sinks
• Radiocarbon in the global carbon cycle
• Model validation with chemical tracers
• Observational method development

Her group uses radiocarbon and other isotopes to trace fossil fuel emissions, analyze terrestrial and oceanic carbon sinks, and improve climate models. Collaborations include NASA, NOAA, and international institutions.

Awards & Recognition: No explicit scientific awards listed in the provided texts.

Advising & Grants:

• Advisees include PhD candidates Jo Lester and Eric Schoenrock, and past students Kieran Brophy (PhD 2018) and Rebecca Thomas (PhD 2018).
• Grants and funding details not explicitly stated, but work involves large-scale observational networks (e.g., California methane monitoring).

She co-leads projects like the California CO₂ inversion system and develops open datasets for climate research.

Labs & Teams: Part of the Space, Plasma and Climate Community and the Physics of Life group at Imperial. Active in international initiatives like C4MIP and OMIP model intercomparison projects.