David Archer (scientist)

David Archer ( born September 15, 1960) is an American geologist and professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications.

Professional career

David Archer received his BSc from the University of Indiana in biochemistry. His Ph.D. he made in 1990 in the field of oceanography at the University of Washington. Since 1994 he is an Adjunct Professor at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and since June 2001 he is a professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago.

Work

David Archer's research focuses on the carbon cycle and its interactions with the global climate system. He belongs to the authors of scientific blog RealClimate.

Awards

He got in 1990, the Lamont Postdoctoral Fellowship, and in 1996, the Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering. In 2009 he was honored with the Walter Kistler Book Award and in 2010 with the AGU Fellowship.

Selected publications

  • Atmospheric lifetime of fossil -fuel carbon dioxide
  • Lowering of glacial atmospheric CO2 in response to changes in oceanic circulation and marine biogeochemistry
  • Long term fate of anthropogenic carbon
  • Subsurface ocean argon disequilibrium Reveals the equatorial Pacific shadow zone
  • A movable trigger: Fossil fuel CO2 and the onset of the next glaciation
  • Time -dependent response of the global ocean clathrate reservoir to climatic and anthropogenic forcing
  • Fate of fossil fuel CO2 in geologic time
  • Model sensitivity in the effect of Antarctic sea ice and stratification on atmospheric p CO2
  • The Global Carbon Cycle ( Princeton Primers in Climate ), Princeton University Press ISBN 978-0-691-14413-9, 205 pages
  • The Warming Papers: The Scientific Foundation for the Climate Change Forecast, 2010, edited by Raymond Pierrehumbert, ISBN 978-1-4051-9616-1, 432 pages
  • The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate, 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-13654-7, 192 pages
  • The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-73255-0, 260 pages
  • Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, 2006, ISBN 978-1-4051-4039-3, 208 pages
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