David Archer (scientist)

David Edward Archer (born September 15, 1960) is a computational ocean chemist,^[1] and has been a professor at the Geophysical Sciences department at the University of Chicago since 1993.^[2] He has published research on the carbon cycle of the ocean and the sea floor. He has worked on the history of atmospheric CO₂ concentration, the expectation of fossil fuel CO₂ over geologic time scales in the future, and the impact of CO₂ on future ice age cycles, ocean methane hydrate decomposition, and coral reefs.^[1] Archer is a contributor to the RealClimate blog.^[1]

Teaching responsibilities

He teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry, and global geochemical cycles.^[2] He is the author of Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, an introductory textbook on the environmental sciences for non-science undergraduates.^[3]

Education

He obtained his Ph.D from the University of Washington in 1990.^[2]

Books

• The Global Carbon Cycle (Princeton Primers in Climate), The Global Carbon Cycle (Princeton Primers in Climate)
• The Warming Papers: The Scientific Foundation for the Climate Change Forecast, 2010, edited with 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

References

Scholia has a profile for David Archer (Q5230822).

External links

• David Archer at the University of Chicago
• David Archer at Realclimate
• David Archer at Google Scholar

This page was last edited on 15 November 2022, at 17:13