Ken Caldeira is a
scientistA scientist, in the broadest sense, is any person who engages in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices and traditions that are linked to schools of thought or philosophy. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the...
who works at the
Carnegie Institution for ScienceThe Carnegie Institution for Science is an organization in the United States established to support scientific research....
's
Department of Global Ecology. He researches
ocean acidificationOcean acidification is the name given to the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by their uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere...
,
climate effects of treesTreeplanting is the process of transplanting tree seedlings, generally for forestry, land reclamation, or landscaping purposes. It differs from the transplantation of larger trees in arboriculture, and the lower cost but slower and less reliable distribution of tree seeds.It is a silviculture...
,
intentional climate modificationThe modern concept of geoengineering is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the Earth's climate to counteract the effects of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions...
, and interactions in the global carbon/climate system.
Caldeira's work was featured in a November 2006 article in
The New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast Publications...
, entitled "The Darkening Sea." In 2007, he contributed two
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pieces on the subject of global warming to
The New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded in 1851 and published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"—named for its staid appearance and style—is regarded as a national newspaper of record...
.
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Ken Caldeira is a
scientistA scientist, in the broadest sense, is any person who engages in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices and traditions that are linked to schools of thought or philosophy. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the...
who works at the
Carnegie Institution for ScienceThe Carnegie Institution for Science is an organization in the United States established to support scientific research....
's
Department of Global Ecology. He researches
ocean acidificationOcean acidification is the name given to the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by their uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere...
,
climate effects of treesTreeplanting is the process of transplanting tree seedlings, generally for forestry, land reclamation, or landscaping purposes. It differs from the transplantation of larger trees in arboriculture, and the lower cost but slower and less reliable distribution of tree seeds.It is a silviculture...
,
intentional climate modificationThe modern concept of geoengineering is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the Earth's climate to counteract the effects of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions...
, and interactions in the global carbon/climate system.
Caldeira's work was featured in a November 2006 article in
The New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry published by Condé Nast Publications...
, entitled "The Darkening Sea." In 2007, he contributed two
op-edAn op-ed, abbreviated from opposite the editorial page , is a newspaper article that expresses the opinions of a named writer who is usually unaffiliated with the newspaper's editorial board. These are different from editorials, which are usually unsigned and written by editorial board members...
pieces on the subject of global warming to
The New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded in 1851 and published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"—named for its staid appearance and style—is regarded as a national newspaper of record...
. He was named a "Hero Scientist of 2008" by New Scientist magazine.
Biography
In the 1980s, Caldeira worked as a software developer. He received his Ph.D in
Atmospheric SciencesAtmospheric sciences is an umbrella term for the study of the atmosphere, its processes, the effects other systems have on the atmosphere, and the effects of the atmosphere on these other systems. Meteorology includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with a major focus on weather...
in 1991 from the
New York UniversityNew York University is a private, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
Department of Applied Science. From 1991 to 1993, Caldeira worked at Penn State University as a post-doctoral researcher. He then worked as an Environmental Scientist and Physicist at
Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryThe Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California is a scientific research laboratory founded by the University of California in 1952...
until 2005, when he began his current position at the
Carnegie Institution Department of Global Ecology.
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