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Section: Early life > Childhood. Carl Edward Sagan was born on November 9, 1934, in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of New York City's Brooklyn borough. His mother, Rachel Molly Gruber (1906–1982), was a housewife from New York City; his father, Samuel Sagan (1905–1979), was a Ukrainian-born garment worker who had emigrat... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Early life > Childhood | 288 | 1,205 | null |
He and his sister agreed that their father was not especially religious, but that their mother "definitely believed in God, and was active in the temple [...] and served only kosher meat." During the worst years of the Depression, his father worked as a movie theater usher. According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan ... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Early life > Childhood | 310 | 1,480 | null |
They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method." He recalled that a defining moment in his development came when his parents took him, at age four, to the 1939... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Early life > Childhood | 326 | 1,538 | null |
Davidson wrote that this "thrilled Carl." As an adult, inspired by his memories of the World's Fair, Sagan and his colleagues would create similar time capsules to be sent out into the galaxy: the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record précis. During World War II, Sagan's parents worried about the fate of their E... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Early life > Childhood | 343 | 1,537 | null |
The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light. The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me." When he was about six or seven, he and a close friend t... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Early life > Childhood | 279 | 1,276 | null |
G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, stirring his curiosity about the possibility of life on Mars and other planets. According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, Sagan's efforts in his early years to understand the mysteries of the planets became a "driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest t... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Early life > Childhood | 153 | 771 | null |
Section: Early life > Education. Sagan attended David A. Boody Junior High School in his native Bensonhurst and had his bar mitzvah when he turned 13. In 1948, when he was 14, his father's work took the family to the older semi-industrial town of Rahway, New Jersey, where he attended Rahway High School. He was a straig... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Early life > Education | 301 | 1,384 | null |
In his junior year of high school, he discovered that professional astronomers were paid for doing something he always enjoyed, and decided on astronomy as a career goal: "That was a splendid day—when I began to suspect that if I tried hard I could do astronomy full-time, not just part-time." Sagan graduated from Rahwa... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Early life > Education | 319 | 1,568 | null |
He also joined the Ryerson Astronomical Society. In 1954, he was awarded a Bachelor of Liberal Arts with general and special honors in what he quipped was "nothing." In 1955, he earned a Bachelor of Science in physics. He went on to do graduate work at the University of Chicago, earning a Master of Science in physics i... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Early life > Education | 307 | 1,527 | null |
Section: Career and research. From 1960 to 1962, Sagan was a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Meanwhile, he published an article in 1961 in the journal Science on the atmosphere of Venus, while also working with NASA's Mariner 2 team, and served as a "Planetary Sciences Consultant" to the RAND C... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research | 310 | 1,618 | null |
An advisor from his years as an undergraduate student, Harold Urey, wrote a letter to the tenure committee recommending strongly against tenure for Sagan. Long before the ill-fated tenure process, Cornell University astronomer Thomas Gold had courted Sagan to move to Ithaca, New York, and join the recently hired astron... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research | 323 | 1,645 | null |
Section: Career and research > Scientific achievements. Former student David Morrison described Sagan as "an 'idea person' and a master of intuitive physical arguments and 'back of the envelope' calculations", and Gerard Kuiper said that "Some persons work best in specializing on a major program in the laboratory; othe... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Scientific achievements | 340 | 1,685 | null |
The reddish haze was revealed to be due to complex organic molecules constantly raining down onto Titan's surface. Sagan further contributed insights regarding the atmospheres of Venus and Jupiter, as well as seasonal changes on Mars. He also perceived global warming as a growing, man-made danger and likened it to the ... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Scientific achievements | 283 | 1,513 | null |
Section: Career and research > Cosmos: popularizing science on TV. In 1980, Sagan co-wrote and narrated the award-winning 13-part PBS television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which became the most widely watched series in the history of American public television until 1990. The show has been seen by at least 500 m... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Cosmos: popularizing science on TV | 283 | 1,354 | null |
Section: Career and research > "Billions and billions". After Cosmos aired, Sagan became associated with the catchphrase "billions and billions", although he never actually used the phrase in the Cosmos series. He rather used the term "billions upon billions." Richard Feynman, a precursor to Sagan, used the phrase "bil... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > "Billions and billions" | 298 | 1,329 | null |
Section: Career and research > Scientific and critical thinking advocacy. Sagan's ability to convey his ideas allowed many people to understand the cosmos better—simultaneously emphasizing the value and worthiness of the human race, and the relative insignificance of the Earth in comparison to the Universe. He delivere... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Scientific and critical thinking advocacy | 297 | 1,540 | null |
Sagan served as Chairman of the Division for Planetary Science of the American Astronomical Society, as President of the Planetology Section of the American Geophysical Union, and as Chairman of the Astronomy Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). At the height of the Cold War, Sagan... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Scientific and critical thinking advocacy | 329 | 1,599 | null |
However, Sagan and Teller's correspondence would ultimately result in Teller writing: "A propagandist is one who uses incomplete information to produce maximum persuasion. I can compliment you on being, indeed, an excellent propagandist, remembering that a propagandist is the better the less he appears to be one." Biog... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Scientific and critical thinking advocacy | 340 | 1,594 | null |
He appeared on PBS's Charlie Rose program in January 1995. Sagan also wrote the introduction for Stephen Hawking's bestseller A Brief History of Time. Sagan was also known for his popularization of science, his efforts to increase scientific understanding among the general public, and his positions in favor of scientif... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Scientific and critical thinking advocacy | 345 | 1,679 | null |
The results of the smoke did not produce continental-sized cooling. Sagan later conceded in The Demon-Haunted World that the prediction did not turn out to be correct: "it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4–6 °C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spare... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Scientific and critical thinking advocacy | 348 | 1,706 | null |
In a 1994 paper he co-authored, he ridiculed a three-day-long "Near-Earth Object Interception Workshop" held by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 1993 that did not, "even in passing" state that such interception and deflection technologies could have these "ancillary dangers." Sagan remained hopeful that the nat... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Scientific and critical thinking advocacy | 325 | 1,622 | null |
Section: Career and research > Criticisms. While Sagan was widely adored by the general public, his reputation in the scientific community was more polarized. Critics sometimes characterized his work as fanciful, non-rigorous, and self-aggrandizing, and others complained in his later years that he neglected his role as... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Criticisms | 307 | 1,462 | null |
Section: Career and research > Social concerns. Sagan believed that the Drake equation, on substitution of reasonable estimates, suggested that a large number of extraterrestrial civilizations would form, but that the lack of evidence of such civilizations highlighted by the Fermi paradox suggests technological civiliz... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Social concerns | 344 | 1,845 | null |
Sagan, along with other scientists, spoke out against the project, arguing that it was technically impossible to develop a system with the level of perfection required, and far more expensive to build such a system than it would be for an enemy to defeat it through decoys and other means—and that its construction would... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Social concerns | 292 | 1,505 | null |
Sagan was also a vocal advocate of the controversial notion of testosterone poisoning, arguing in 1992 that human males could become gripped by an "unusually severe [case of] testosterone poisoning" and this could compel them to become genocidal. In his review of Moondance magazine writer Daniela Gioseffi's 1990 book W... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Career and research > Social concerns | 169 | 813 | null |
Section: Personal life and beliefs. Sagan was married three times. In 1957, he married biologist Lynn Margulis. The couple had two children, Jeremy and Dorion Sagan. According to Margulis, Sagan could be physically abusive and insisted she do the majority of the domestic duties . Their marriage ended in 1964. Sagan mar... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Personal life and beliefs | 295 | 1,346 | null |
The name was only used internally, but Sagan was concerned that it would become a product endorsement and sent Apple a cease-and-desist letter. Apple complied, but engineers retaliated by changing the internal codename to "BHA" for "Butt-Head Astronomer." In November 1995, after further legal battle, an out-of-court se... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Personal life and beliefs | 267 | 1,248 | null |
Section: Personal life and beliefs > Naturalism. Sagan wrote frequently about religion and the relationship between religion and science, expressing his skepticism about the conventional conceptualization of God as a sapient being. For example: Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white ... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Personal life and beliefs > Naturalism | 329 | 1,582 | null |
Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a su... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Personal life and beliefs > Naturalism | 321 | 1,596 | null |
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely s... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Personal life and beliefs > Naturalism | 340 | 1,584 | null |
Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. In 2006, Druyan edited Sagan's 1985 Glasgow Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology into a book, The Varieties of Scientific Exp... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Personal life and beliefs > Naturalism | 309 | 1,448 | null |
In The Demon-Haunted World, he presented tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent ones, essentially advocating the wide use of critical thinking and of the scientific method. The compilation Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium, published in 1997 aft... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Personal life and beliefs > Naturalism | 192 | 898 | null |
Section: Personal life and beliefs > Marijuana advocacy. Sagan was a user and advocate of marijuana. Under the pseudonym "Mr. X", he contributed an essay about smoking cannabis to the 1971 book Marihuana Reconsidered. The essay explained that marijuana use had helped to inspire some of Sagan's works and enhance sensual... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Personal life and beliefs > Marijuana advocacy | 174 | 809 | null |
Section: Personal life and beliefs > UFOs. In 1947, the year that inaugurated the "flying saucer" craze, the young Sagan suspected the "discs" might be alien spaceships. Sagan's interest in UFO reports prompted him on August 3, 1952, to write a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson to ask how the United States... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Personal life and beliefs > UFOs | 330 | 1,597 | null |
The result was the Condon Committee (1966–68), led by physicist Edward Condon, and in their final report they formally concluded that UFOs, regardless of what any of them actually were, did not behave in a manner consistent with a threat to national security. Sociologist Ron Westrum writes that "The high point of Sagan... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Personal life and beliefs > UFOs | 318 | 1,514 | null |
Section: Awards and honors. Annual Award for Television Excellence—1981—Ohio State University—PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Apollo Achievement Award—National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal—National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1977) Emmy—Outstanding Individu... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Awards and honors | 321 | 1,714 | null |
Kennedy Astronautics Award—1982—American Astronautical Society Special non-fiction Campbell Memorial Award—1974—The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective Joseph Priestley Award—"For distinguished contributions to the welfare of mankind" Klumpke-Roberts Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific—1974 ... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Awards and honors | 346 | 1,685 | null |
Section: Awards and honors > Posthumous recognition > Sites named after him. In 1997, the Sagan Planet Walk was opened in Ithaca, New York. It is a walking-scale model of the Solar System, extending 1.2 km from the center of The Commons in downtown Ithaca to the Sciencenter, a hands-on museum. The exhibition was create... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Awards and honors > Posthumous recognition > Sites named after him | 298 | 1,369 | null |
Section: Awards and honors > Posthumous recognition > In popular culture. The 1997 film Contact was based on the only novel Sagan wrote and finished after his death. It ends with the dedication "For Carl." His photo can also be seen in the film. Sagan's son, Nick Sagan, wrote several episodes in the Star Trek franchise... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Awards and honors > Posthumous recognition > In popular culture | 299 | 1,384 | null |
The 2014 Swedish science fiction short film Wanderers uses excerpts of Sagan's narration in 1994 of his book Pale Blue Dot, played over digitally-created visuals of humanity's possible future expansion into outer space. In February 2015, the Finnish-based symphonic metal band Nightwish released the song "Sagan" as a no... | Wikipedia - Carl Sagan - Awards and honors > Posthumous recognition > In popular culture | 228 | 995 | null |
Section: Recognition. In 2008, Ziurys was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, "for forefront contributions in molecular spectroscopy leading to new discoveries and understanding of molecules in interstellar and circumste... | Wikipedia - Lucy Ziurys - Recognition | 168 | 863 | null |
Article: James G. Anderson. James Gilbert Anderson (born 1944) is the Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard University, a position he has held since 1982. From 1998 to 2001, he was the chairman of Harvard's department of chemistry and chemical biology. He is a fellow of the American Association f... | Wikipedia - James G. Anderson - Summary | 165 | 874 | null |
Section: Research and career. Boering was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where she worked with Steven Wofsy. At Harvard, Boering developed instrumentation to measure carbon dioxide mixing ratios in the upper troposphere. Boering used U-2 spy planes with high-altitude balloons, and made observations in Bra... | Wikipedia - Kristie Boering - Research and career | 346 | 1,779 | null |
Section: Career and scholarship. When discussing how she became interested in engineering, Bond noted, "I was poor and had a car that broke, and I had to fix it. It was frustrating but satisfying." In the late 1980s, she apprenticed in an auto body shop and became curious about how cars were made. She wanted to know ab... | Wikipedia - Tami Bond - Career and scholarship | 244 | 1,283 | null |
Section: Research and career. After her studies, Giorio became a postdoc at the University of Padova where she worked on the environmental dispersion of neonicotinoid insecticides through dust emitted by seeders during the sowing of corn seeds treated with neonicotinoids, and the consequential in-flight contamination a... | Wikipedia - Chiara Giorio - Research and career | 276 | 1,396 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Giorio C, D’Aronco S, Di Marco V, Badocco D, Battaglia F, Soldà L, Pastore P, Tapparo A (2022) Emerging investigator series: aqueous-phase processing of atmospheric aerosol influences dissolution kinetics of metal ions in an urban background site in the Po Valley. Environ Sci Process Imp... | Wikipedia - Chiara Giorio - Selected publications | 320 | 1,153 | null |
Chemosphere 224:786–795. Direct target and non-target analysis of urban aerosol sample extracts using atmospheric pressure photoionisation high-resolution mass spectrometry Giorio C, Pizzini S, Marchiori E, Piazza R, Grigolato S, Zanetti M, Cavalli R, Simoncin M, Soldà L, Badocco D, Tapparo A (2019) Sustainability of u... | Wikipedia - Chiara Giorio - Selected publications | 286 | 1,096 | null |
Environ Sci Technol 51:14107–14113. Formation of Metal–Cyanide Complexes in Deliquescent Airborne Particles: A New Possible Sink for HCN in Urban Environments Giorio C, Monod A, Brégonzio-Rozier L, DeWitt HL, Cazaunau M, Temime-Roussel B, Gratien A, Michoud V, Pangui E, Ravier S, Zielinski AT, Tapparo A, Vermeylen R, C... | Wikipedia - Chiara Giorio - Selected publications | 254 | 838 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Chin was born in Shanghai, China. Beginning at the age of nine, Chin attended the Children's Music School at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music for three years to study piano. When she was thirteen, her education abruptly stopped due to the Cultural Revolution. After a little more tha... | Wikipedia - Mian Chin - Early life and education | 345 | 1,669 | null |
Chin received a B.S. degree in chemistry from East China Normal University in 1982, a M.A. degree in chemistry from Ball State University in 1986, and a Ph.D. degree in Atmospheric Sciences from Georgia Tech in 1992. During her graduate study in Georgia Tech, Chin was involved in field experiments measuring atmospheric... | Wikipedia - Mian Chin - Early life and education | 195 | 1,007 | null |
Section: Career > Research. Chin has served as principal investigator for many research projects since 1997 that involve global and regional modeling of tropospheric aerosols and chemistry. She and her coworkers have developed the Goddard Chemistry Aerosol Radiation and Transport (GOCART) model, which has been used to ... | Wikipedia - Mian Chin - Career > Research | 168 | 810 | null |
Section: Career. Cicerone joined the University of Michigan as a research scientist, later holding faculty positions in electrical and computer engineering from 1971 to 1978. In 1978 he moved to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego as a research chemist. He was appointed senior scientist and director... | Wikipedia - Ralph Cicerone - Career | 339 | 1,743 | null |
Section: Honors, awards and legacy. He was the 1999 laureate for the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. The American Geophysical Union awarded him its James B. Macelwane Award in 1979 for outstanding contributions to geophysics by a young scientists and later in 2002 its Roger Revelle Medal for outstandi... | Wikipedia - Ralph Cicerone - Honors, awards and legacy | 166 | 829 | null |
Section: Research interests. Coe studies the physics and chemistry of aerosols in the atmosphere, including the part they play in climate change through interactions with clouds and solar radiation. He also studies the role of aerosols in the transport of air pollution, including regional and transboundary (long-distan... | Wikipedia - Hugh Coe - Research interests | 176 | 927 | null |
Section: Awards. Coe was awarded the Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal (2022) for "pioneering the science of atmospheric composition through instrument development and fine particle measurements, to study their impact on air quality, clouds and climate". According to the European Geosciences Union, which made the award: "Hugh Coe... | Wikipedia - Hugh Coe - Awards | 184 | 883 | null |
Section: Selected publications > Papers. Canagaratna, M.R.; Jayne, J.T.; Jimenez, J.L.; Allan, J.D.; Alfarra, M.R.; et al. (17 January 2007). "Chemical and microphysical characterization of ambient aerosols with the aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer". Mass Spectrometry Reviews. 26 (2): 185–222. Bibcode:2007MSRv...26..... | Wikipedia - Hugh Coe - Selected publications > Papers | 348 | 920 | null |
Article: Paul J. Crutzen. Paul Jozef Crutzen (Dutch pronunciation: [pʌul ˈjoːzəf ˈkrʏtsə(n)]; 3 December 1933 – 28 January 2021) was a Dutch meteorologist and atmospheric chemist. In 1995, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside Mario Molina and Frank Sherwood Rowland for their work on atmospheric chemist... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Crutzen - Summary | 203 | 1,030 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Crutzen was born in Amsterdam, the son of Anna (Gurk) and Josef Crutzen. In September 1940, the same year Germany invaded The Netherlands, Crutzen entered his first year of elementary school. His classes moved around to different locations after the primary school was taken over by th... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Crutzen - Early life and education | 296 | 1,489 | null |
Section: Beginning of academic career. In the 1920's Norwegian meteorologists began using fluid mechanics in analyse weather, and by 1959 the Meteorology Institute of Stockholm University was at the forefront of meteorology research using numerical modeling. The theories were validated in 1960 by images from Tiros, the... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Crutzen - Beginning of academic career | 328 | 1,639 | null |
Section: Research career. Crutzen conducted research primarily in atmospheric chemistry. He is best known for his research on ozone depletion. In 1970 he pointed out that emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a stable, long-lived gas produced by soil bacteria, from the Earth's surface could affect the amount of nitric oxid... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Crutzen - Research career | 341 | 1,541 | null |
Crutzen immediately developed a model of this effect, which predicted severe depletion of ozone if those chemicals continued to be used at that current rate. Crutze has listed his main research interests as "Stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry, and their role in the biogeochemical cycles and climate". From 1980, h... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Crutzen - Research career | 306 | 1,465 | null |
Section: Research career > Anthropocene. One of Crutzen's research interests was the Anthropocene. In 2000, in IGBP Newsletter 41, Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer, to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology, proposed using the term anthropocene for the current geological epoch. In regard to its star... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Crutzen - Research career > Anthropocene | 220 | 1,009 | null |
Section: Research career > Geoengineering (Climate intervention). Steve Connor, Science Editor of The Independent, wrote that Crutzen believes that political attempts to limit man-made greenhouse gases are so pitiful that a radical contingency plan is needed. In a polemical scientific essay that was published in the Au... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Crutzen - Research career > Geoengineering (Climate intervention) | 227 | 1,168 | null |
Section: Research career > Nuclear winter. Crutzen was also a leader in promoting the theory of nuclear winter. Together with John W. Birks he wrote the first publication introducing the subject: The atmosphere after a nuclear war: Twilight at noon (1982). They theorized the potential climatic effects of the large amou... | Wikipedia - Paul J. Crutzen - Research career > Nuclear winter | 212 | 1,104 | null |
Section: Career. Dessler worked in the energy group at The First Boston Corporation doing mergers and acquisitions analysis in the mid-1980s. He left his job as an investment banker on Wall Street in 1988 to go to graduate school in chemistry. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1994, Dessler did two years of Postdoctoral res... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Career | 262 | 1,301 | null |
He later stated, "At first, I was enamoured with blogging, until I realized how repetitive it was to keep answering the same questions. I decided I wanted a more high-impact way to spend my time." The New York Times said the results of his 2004 article in the Journal of Climate written with Ken Minschwaner placed them,... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Career | 310 | 1,557 | null |
Section: Books. Dessler and Edward Parson co-authored, The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate in 2006 (2nd ed. 2009). It was described as, "a fascinating hybrid of science and policy directed at a broad or nonspecialist audience" by Wendy Gordon in a 2008 review in Eos. Gordon's review... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Books | 311 | 1,516 | null |
Writing in New Scientist in 2006 Adrian Barnett said, "Free copies should be shipped to anyone who doubts the reality of climate change, starting with presidents in denial." The book also received very positive reviews in Chromatographia, the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) and Environmental Sciences. In 2012 ... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Books | 180 | 953 | null |
Section: Climate change policy. ...the climate is warming...humans are in the driver's seat...if nothing is done to rein in emissions, temperatures will likely increase enough to profoundly change the planet. Dessler has been consulted by newspapers and has given talks on climate change and government policy. On Januar... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Climate change policy | 334 | 1,685 | null |
In this way, the debate over climate change turns into a debate over which reality should be believed." In 2010 when US Senator James Inhofe attempted to block the US Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, Dessler told reporters he was confident that individual errors ... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Climate change policy | 271 | 1,445 | null |
Section: Climate change policy > Clouds and climate change. A front page article in The New York Times examining the theory that clouds might offset the effects of increased greenhouse gasses found that his analysis in a 2011 article in Geophysical Research Letters "offered some evidence that clouds will exacerbate the... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Climate change policy > Clouds and climate change | 201 | 1,067 | null |
Section: Awards and honors. 1991-1994 - NASA Graduate Student Fellowship in Global Change Research 1993 - American Geophysical Union Atmospheric Sciences Section Outstanding Student Paper Award 1994-1996 - National Research Council Research Associateship 1999 - NASA New Investigator Award 1999 - NASA Goddard Laboratory... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Awards and honors | 192 | 1,124 | null |
Section: Publications > Selected articles. Weinstock, E.M.; Hintsa, E.J.; —; Oliver, J.F.; et al. (November 1994). "New fast response photofragment fluorescence hygrometer for use on the NASA ER-2 and the Perseus remotely piloted aircraft". Review of Scientific Instruments. 65 (11): 3544–54. Bibcode:1994RScI...65.3544W... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Publications > Selected articles | 338 | 930 | null |
Bibcode:1995JGR...100.3065F. doi:10.1029/94JD02298. —; Hintsa, E.J.; Weinstock, E.M.; Anderson, J.G.; et al. (November 20, 1995). "Mechanisms controlling water vapor in the lower stratosphere: "A tale of two stratospheres"". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 100 (D11): 23167–72. Bibcode:1995JGR...10023167D.... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Publications > Selected articles | 345 | 883 | null |
Bibcode:2001JAtS...58..765S. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.514.5310. doi:10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<0765:AMFTAT>2.0.CO;2. — (February 16, 2002). "The effect of deep, tropical convection on the tropical tropopause layer". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 107 (D3): ACH 6–1–ACH 6–5. Bibcode:2002JGRD..107.4033D. doi:10.102... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Publications > Selected articles | 340 | 802 | null |
doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1272:WVFITT>2.0.CO;2. —; Zhang, Z.; Yang, P. (October 2008). "Water-vapor climate feedback inferred from climate fluctuations, 2003–2008". Geophysical Research Letters. 35 (20): L20704. Bibcode:2008GeoRL..3520704D. doi:10.1029/2008GL035333. S2CID 16219995. — (2009). "Energy for air captur... | Wikipedia - Andrew Dessler - Publications > Selected articles | 338 | 775 | null |
Section: Career and Honors. Before he became a professor of meteorology at Penn State, Dolores Fuentes was a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia. At Penn State, he collaborates with well-known climate scientist Michael E. Mann by co-advising students and working on a research project in th... | Wikipedia - Jose Dolores Fuentes - Career and Honors | 160 | 856 | null |
Section: Research. Douglass used satellite measurements from NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) platform to define the mode of production for reaction chlorine species, to globally map these ozone-depleting chlorine compounds, and to model differences in the formation of atmospheric chlorine reservoirs b... | Wikipedia - Anne R. Douglass - Research | 257 | 1,343 | null |
Article: Robert Duce. Robert A. Duce (born April 9, 1935) is a pioneer in the study of atmospheric chemistry, and a distinguished professor emeritus at Texas A&M University. He has made significant contributions to the understanding of chemical exchanges between the atmosphere and the oceans, and the global cycle of tr... | Wikipedia - Robert Duce - Summary | 293 | 1,505 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Ulrich Pöschl; S T Martin; Baerbel Sinha; et al. (September 1, 2010). "Rainforest aerosols as biogenic nuclei of clouds and precipitation in the Amazon". Science. 329 (5998): 1513–1516. doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1191056. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 20847268. Wikidata Q57264108. M. J. Cubison; A. M. O... | Wikipedia - Delphine Farmer - Selected publications | 321 | 910 | null |
Section: Career and research. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Fiore worked on ozone smog for her honors thesis. As a graduate student at Harvard, Fiore worked with the Harvard Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group. Before becoming a professor, Fiore continued her research at the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences... | Wikipedia - Arlene Fiore - Career and research | 280 | 1,557 | null |
Section: Awards and honors. In December 2005, Fiore won the American Geophysical Union James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award for the research she conducted in the two years after earning her Ph.D. In July 2006, she earned the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). In December 2011, the ... | Wikipedia - Arlene Fiore - Awards and honors | 166 | 840 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Fiore has co-authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications, but the most highly cited are: Bey, Isabelle; Jacob, Daniel J.; Yantosca, Robert M.; Logan, Jennifer A.; Field, Brendan D.; Fiore, Arlene M.; Li, Qinbin; Liu, Honguy Y.; Mickley, Loretta J.; Schultz, Martin G. (2001). "Global m... | Wikipedia - Arlene Fiore - Selected publications | 243 | 684 | null |
W.; Krol, M.; Kulshrestha, U. C.; Lawrence, M.; Galy-Lacaux, C.; Rast, S.; Shindell, D.; Stevenson, D.; Van Noije, T.; Atherton, C.; Bell, N.; Bergman, D.; Butler, T.; Cofala, J.; Collins, B.; Doherty, R.; Ellingsen, K.; Galloway, J.; Gauss, M.; Montanaro, V.; Müller, J. F.; Pitari, G.; et al. (2006). "Nitrogen and sul... | Wikipedia - Arlene Fiore - Selected publications | 345 | 903 | null |
G.; Ellingsen, K.; Van Noije, T. P. C.; Wild, O.; Zeng, G.; Amann, M.; Atherton, C. S.; Bell, N.; Bergmann, D. J.; Bey, I.; Butler, T.; Cofala, J.; Collins, W. J.; Derwent, R. G.; Doherty, R. M.; Drevet, J.; Eskes, H. J.; Fiore, A. M.; Gauss, M.; Hauglustaine, D. A.; Horowitz, L. W.; Isaksen, I. S. A.; Krol, M. C.; Lam... | Wikipedia - Arlene Fiore - Selected publications | 345 | 810 | null |
Section: Career and research. Following her PhD research in 2011, Fischer became a NOAA Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. There, she "explored the processes controlling the distribution of the most important atmospheric oxidants, the hydroxyl radical and ozone." In 2013, she bec... | Wikipedia - Emily V. Fischer - Career and research | 217 | 1,121 | null |
Section: Career and research > Select publications. Fischer, E. V.; Jaffe, D. A.; Reidmiller, D. R.; Jaeglé, L. (2010). "Meteorological controls on observed peroxyacetyl nitrate at Mount Bachelor during the spring of 2008". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 115 (D3): D03302. Bibcode:2010JGRD..115.3302F. doi... | Wikipedia - Emily V. Fischer - Career and research > Select publications | 342 | 902 | null |
"The role of the ocean in the global atmospheric budget of acetone". Geophysical Research Letters. 39 (1): 10.1029/2011gl050086. Bibcode:2012GeoRL..39.1807F. doi:10.1029/2011GL050086. ISSN 1944-8007. PMC 7983863. PMID 33758438. Gong, S. L.; Jeong, M.-J.; Jaffe, D. A.; Hsu, N. C.; Fischer, E. V. (2009-02-01). "A decade ... | Wikipedia - Emily V. Fischer - Career and research > Select publications | 205 | 513 | null |
Section: Education. Flagan received his B.S.E. in mechanical engineering from University of Michigan in 1969 and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, also in mechanical engineering. His Ph.D. dissertation was titled The formation of nitric oxide from organic nitrogen contained in f... | Wikipedia - Richard Flagan - Education | 180 | 912 | null |
Section: Career. Flagan joined California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1975 as an assistant professor in the environmental engineering science program within the Division of Engineering and Applied Science. Both Sheldon K. Friedlander, who moved to UCLA, and John H. Seinfeld who was a frequently collaborator at... | Wikipedia - Richard Flagan - Career | 341 | 1,832 | null |
Section: Selected publications. Flagan, Richard C.; Friedlander, Sheldon K. (1978). "Particle formation in pulverized coal combustion: A review". In Shaw, David T. (ed.). Recent Developments in Aerosol Science. Vol. 2. Wiley. pp. 25–59. ISBN 0471029505. Wang, Shih Chen; Flagan, Richard C. (1990). "Scanning Electrical M... | Wikipedia - Richard Flagan - Selected publications | 340 | 1,022 | null |
Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry. 26 (2): 189–222. Bibcode:1997JAtC...26..189H. doi:10.1023/A:1005734301837. Armani, Andrea M.; Kulkarni, Rajan P.; Fraser, Scott E.; Flagan, Richard C.; Vahala, Kerry J. (2007). "Label-Free, Single-Molecule Detection with Optical Microcavities". Science. 317 (5839): 783–787. Bibcode:200... | Wikipedia - Richard Flagan - Selected publications | 350 | 938 | null |
Section: Early life and education. Foster was born in Culver City, California. Her parents, Warren and Frances Foster, worked at IBM and San Diego State University. Foster has said that he was always encouraged to work hard, and she eventually attended the Helix High School. She has said that she enjoyed baking as a ch... | Wikipedia - Krishna Foster - Early life and education | 201 | 1,020 | null |
Section: Research and career. Foster was appointed to the faculty at California State University, Los Angeles in 2000. That year she took part in Alert 2000, an international fieldwork programme to study the photochemistry of snow in Alert, Nunavut. Her research proposal looked to measure the concentrations of gaseous ... | Wikipedia - Krishna Foster - Research and career | 284 | 1,556 | null |
Section: Select publications. Foster, K. L. (2001-01-19). "The Role of Br2 and BrCl in Surface Ozone Destruction at Polar Sunrise". Science. 291 (5503): 471–474. Bibcode:2001Sci...291..471F. doi:10.1126/science.291.5503.471. PMID 11161198. Hanrahan, Grady; Salmassi, Tina M.; Khachikian, Crist S.; Foster, Krishna L. (20... | Wikipedia - Krishna Foster - Select publications | 345 | 1,060 | null |
Section: Family and education. Joseph Francisco was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 26, 1955. He was born to Lucinda and Joe Francisco, Sr., but grew up in Beaumont, Texas with his grandmother Sarah Walker. As he was growing up in Beaumont, Texas, his possibilities were limited because of who he was and what h... | Wikipedia - Joseph Francisco - Family and education | 257 | 1,232 | null |
Section: Career > Academic chemist. As a researcher, Francisco has made important contributions in many areas of Atmospheric Chemistry. His research revolutionized our understanding of chemical processes in the atmosphere. Francisco and his colleague Marsha Lester, the University of Pennsylvania's Edmund J. Kahn Distin... | Wikipedia - Joseph Francisco - Career > Academic chemist | 326 | 1,728 | null |
Section: Career > Academic and professional appointments. Francisco currently serves as the President's Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as the Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, Elmer H. and Ruby M.Cordes Chair in chem... | Wikipedia - Joseph Francisco - Career > Academic and professional appointments | 260 | 1,367 | null |
Section: Biography. After graduating from Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School, Hao studied chemistry at Fu Jen Catholic University (BS degree), obtained a Master's Degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry from Harvard University. In 1991, he works in the US Department... | Wikipedia - Wei-min Hao - Biography | 158 | 795 | null |
Section: Career and research. Following her Ph.D. work at Princeton, Hastings became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington in the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean Department of Atmospheric Sciences (JISAO). After completing her postdoctoral work in 2008, Hastings joined the facu... | Wikipedia - Meredith G. Hastings - Career and research | 325 | 1,772 | null |
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