Benjamin D. Santer

Benjamin D. Santer ( born June 3, 1955) is an American climatologist, who has worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His specialty is the statistical analysis of climatological data and the climatological study of effective factors. In 2002, he was the topic of global warming on the twelfth - most cited author. He was coordinating lead author of chapter 8 of the first part of the second assessment report of the IPCC from 1995.

Professional career

Ben Santer received his BSc in Environmental Sciences. His Ph.D. he received from the University of East Anglia in 1987 in the field of climatology. Subsequently, he worked for five years at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, where he statistical methods for the analysis of climate data developed in collaboration with Klaus Ferdinand Hasselmann and anwandte.

Awards

For his research on the human contribution to global warming Santer was honored in 1998 with a MacArthur Fellowship. He has also received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award; he was honored by the Department of Energy of the United States with the " Distinguished Scientist Fellowship " and was awarded the Norbert Gerbier - MUMM Award by the World Meteorological Organization. In 2011, he was AGU Fellow and member of the National Academy of Sciences.