Gavin Schmidt
Gavin A. Schmidt is an American climatologist. He works at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies ( GISS ) NASA.
He focuses on the development of climate models, the study of the interactions between ocean currents and climate and the response of climate to changing impellers such as increasing greenhouse gases or aerosols.
Schmidt received a BA (Hons) in Mathematics at Jesus College, University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics at University College London.
In addition to numerous publications on climate research Schmidt writes regularly on the blog RealClimate. In 2011, his American Geophysical Union ( AGU) in the same year gave the newly created and endowed with $ 25,000 Climate communication price.