![]() ![]() “I thought about how I now knew something for certain that only an hour ago had been an absolute unknown, and I slowly began to appreciate how my life had just changed.” She describes the night when she made her first discovery: a clear peak in her machine’s readout revealed that a fossil seed unexpectedly contained the mineral opal. ![]() Her lab is her home, she says – “the place where I can be the real me”. Jahren has crafted a scientific career based largely on carrying out sophisticated analyses of the chemicals in living and fossilised plant tissue to understand the state of forests and climate in times past. She did – moving quickly from postgraduate research to a position running her own lab in Atlanta, Georgia. ![]()
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