Dr. Sarah Aarons works with Asst. Prof. Kathleen Johnson and Prof. Eric Saltzman in the Department of Earth System Science. Her research is in ice core chemistry, where she measures organic and inorganic chemicals in ice cores to reconstruct biomass burning in the Northern Canadian Arctic. This is important to constrain how the rates of forest fires in high latitudes will change with increasing temperatures resulting from climate change.
Sarah received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, where she worked on reconstructing natural and human-induced changes in the dust cycle in the ice core record. She is a current UCI Chancellor’s ADVANCE Postdoctoral Fellow, and has received a Lighting the Pathway to Faculty Careers for Natives in STEM scholarship. Sarah has had the opportunity to travel to Antarctica twice for field work.