[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 70 (Friday, May 9, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E735]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               IN RECOGNITION OF DR. JENNIFER PETT-RIDGE

                                  _____
                                 

                           HON. ERIC SWALWELL

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 9, 2014

  Mr. SWALWELL of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor an 
exemplary scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 
Livermore, California.
  The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science has selected Dr. 
Jennifer Pett-Ridge to receive funding as part of the Department's 
Early Career Research Program (ECRP). Her project, entitled ``Microbial 
Carbon Transformations in Wet Tropical Soils: The Importance of Redox 
Fluctuations,'' was selected by the Office of Biological & 
Environmental Research.
  The ECRP is crucial to our ability to maintain American leadership in 
science. It was created to support the development of individual 
research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and 
stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE 
Office of Science.
  Dr. Pett-Ridge is the lead scientist of LLNL's Genomic Science 
Biofuels Scientific Focus Area and is a Deputy Group Leader of the 
Isotopic Signatures Group within LLNL's Chemical Sciences Division. She 
received her B.A. in biology and environmental studies and her M.S. in 
forest sciences from Yale. Her Ph.D. in soil microbial ecology from the 
University of California at Berkeley was earned in 2005.
  Awardees were selected from a large pool of university and national 
laboratory-based applicants. Selection was based on peer review by 
outside scientific experts.
  I am privileged to represent LLNL and its brilliant scientists like 
Dr. Pett-Ridge. Their hard work and skill are what keeps America secure 
and at the forefront of scientific innovation. I want to congratulate 
Dr. Pett-Ridge and wish her well in her work with ECRP.

                          ____________________