The level of the Dead Sea is currently declining by more than a meter per year, because the countries in the watershed consume virtually all the useable fresh water runoff. Climate models predict increasing aridity in the region, so the work of Kiro and her colleagues points to greater stress on fresh water supplies in the future.
Kiro’s co-author Steven Goldstein, Higgins Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, also has been honored recently: He has been elected a 2017 fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry. These societies choose 10 individuals for this honor each year. He will accept it at the V.M. Goldschmidt Conference in Paris this August.
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