David Archer (scientist)

{{Short description|American ocean chemist}}

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David Edward Archer (born September 15, 1960) is a computational ocean chemist,{{cite web| url=http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/david-archer/ |title=David Archer|work=RealClimate|date=6 December 2004 |accessdate=6 December 2009}} and has been a professor at the Geophysical Sciences department at the University of Chicago since 1993.{{cite web|url=http://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/archer.shtml|title=David Archer|work=University of Chicago Website|accessdate=6 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310071145/http://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/archer.shtml|archive-date=10 March 2010|url-status=dead}} He has published research on the carbon cycle of the ocean and the sea floor. He has worked on the history of atmospheric {{CO2|link=yes}} 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. Archer is a contributor to the RealClimate blog.

Teaching responsibilities

He teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry, and global geochemical cycles. He is the author of Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, an introductory textbook on the environmental sciences for non-science undergraduates.{{Cite web|title=Geophysical Sciences|url=https://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/david-archer/|access-date=2020-11-26|website=geosci.uchicago.edu|language=en}}

Education

He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1990.

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

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