Elizabeth Swanner

Hydrogen from deep under Iowa? State universities can help build a hydrogen economy

As companies search for geologic hydrogen deep below Iowa's farms, towns and cities, university scientists, including Professor Elizabeth Swanner, Department of the Earth, Atmosphere, and Climate, are starting to discuss how they could help the state develop a hydrogen economy.

June 10, 2026

LAS faculty members recognized for innovative research

Faculty members receive donor-funded awards for their innovative research and scholarly achievements.

February 29, 2024

A layered lake is a little like Earth’s early oceans

By investigating what a Minnesota lake's microbes are doing, Iowa State's Elizabeth Swanner can better understand how they transformed the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans into what they are today.

October 23, 2023

Iowa State University researchers receive EPA grant to study harmful algal blooms in Iowa lakes

Elizabeth Swanner, assistant professor of geological and atmospheric sciences, will help develop new tools to predict and combat harmful algal blooms, a growing threat to human and animal health in Iowa’s lakes.

January 16, 2018