Benjamin Cook (scientist)

{{Short description|American climatologist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Benjamin Cook

| nationality = American

| fields = Earth and Environmental Sciences

| workplaces = Columbia University

| alma_mater = SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (BA)
University of Virginia (MS, PhD)

}}

Benjamin I. Cook[http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/bcook.html GISS Personnel Directory: Dr. Benjamin I. Cook] Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Last accessed 10 Dec 2011. is an American climatologist with a number of publications to his name.[http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/authors/bcook.html Publications by Benjamin I. Cook]. Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Last accessed 10 Dec 2011. Along with the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, for instance, he used paleorecords to reconstruct land cover in Mexico’s Yucatán and other Central American regions.[http://www.calacademy.org/sciencetoday/drought-past-and-future/ Drought – Past and Future] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115071149/http://www.calacademy.org/sciencetoday/drought-past-and-future/ |date=January 15, 2012 }}. California Academy of Sciences. 8 Dec 2011. Last accessed 10 Dec 2011.