Gerald Haug
{{Short description|German geologic climatologist}}
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Gerald H. Haug (born 14 April 1968 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German geologic climatologist, prize winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and since 2007 he has a professorship at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland.{{Cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-51955601.html|title=Universitäten: Stadt für die Wissenschaft|last=|first=|date=2007-06-18|website=www.spiegel.de|location=Hamburg|publisher=Der Spiegel|language=de|access-date=2017-03-07}} In 2015 he became director of the Climate Geochemistry Department and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz {{Cite web|url=https://www.mpic.de/3783597/profile-haug|title=Profil Gerald H. Haug|last=|first=|date=2016-04-07|website=www.mpic.de|publisher=Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie|location=Mainz|language=en|access-date=2017-03-07}} and since March 2020, he became the new President of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[https://www.leopoldina.org/en/press-1/news/gerald-haug-elected-president-of-the-leopoldina/ Gerald Haug elected President of the Leopoldina] National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, press release of December 11, 2019.{{cite news |last=Müller-Jung |first=Joachim |date=2019-12-11 |title=Leopoldina wählt Gerald Haug: Klimaforscher wird die Nationalakademie führen |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/klimaforscher-wird-die-nationalakademie-fuehren-16530290.html |work=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |location=Frankfurt |access-date=2019-12-12}}
Early life and education
Haug graduated in Geology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in 1992 and received his PhD at the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1995.
Career
From 1995 to 1996 Haug worked as a postdoc at GEOMAR, Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. From 1996 to 1997 he had been a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Oceanography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,{{Cite web|url=http://www.whoi.edu/|title=Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution|website=Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution|access-date=2017-02-28}} United States, and became later a research assistant professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States (1997–1998). From 2000 to 2002, he worked as a senior assistant at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and habilitated in the Earth Sciences (2002).
Haug is signee of a protest note which points out the dangers arising from ignoring climate change.{{Cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/erderwaermung-klimaforscher-protestieren-gegen-institutsdirektoren-a-661568.html|title=Erderwärmung: Klimaforscher protestieren gegen Institutsdirektoren|last=Traufetter|first=Gerald|date=2009-11-17|website=spiegel.de|location=Hamburg|publisher=Der Spiegel|access-date=2017-03-07}}{{Cite news|url=http://scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/ein-limit-von-zwei-grad-erw-rmung-ist-aus-geowissenschaftlicher-sicht-notwendig/|title=Ein Limit von zwei Grad Erwärmung ist aus geowissenschaftlicher Sicht notwendig » KlimaLounge » SciLogs – Wissenschaftsblogs|date=2009-11-18|work=KlimaLounge|access-date=2017-03-07|language=de-DE}}
Haug initiated the construction of the research sail yacht S/Y Eugen Seibold and coordinates the research.Claus Reissig: [https://www.faz.net/aktuell/technik-motor/motor/wie-ein-professor-eine-yacht-fuer-die-klimaforschung-baut-15360246.html Der Ozean, der Professor und die Yacht]. Frankfurter Allgemeine, January 11, 2018.
Other activities
- Virchow Prize for Global Health, Member of the Prize Committee (since 2022)[https://virchowprize.org/virchow-prize-committee/ Prize Committee] Virchow Prize for Global Health.
- German Future Prize, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2020)[https://www.deutscher-zukunftspreis.de/de/der-preis/kuratorium Board of Trustees] Deutscher Zukunftspreis.
- Academy of Sciences and Literature, Member (since 2018)
- Academia Europaea, Member (since 2008)
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Member of the Board of Governors[https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/organisation/management/board-of-governors.html Board of Governors] Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research.
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Member of the Supervisory Board[https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/supervisory_board.php Supervisory Board] Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
- Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Member of the Board of Trustees[https://www.mpi-halle.mpg.de/board-of-trustees Board of Trustees] Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics.
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Member of the Board of Trustees[https://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/Fachbeirat_Kuratorium Board of Trustees] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220185519/http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/Fachbeirat_Kuratorium |date=2020-02-20 }} Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board[https://www.pik-potsdam.de/institute/organization/sab/index_html?set_language=en Scientific Advisory Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212073745/https://www.pik-potsdam.de/institute/organization/sab/index_html%3Fset_language%3Den |date=2019-12-12 }} Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
- Werner Siemens Foundation, Member of the Advisory Council[https://www.wernersiemens-stiftung.ch/en/foundation/ Advisory Council] Werner Siemens Foundation.
Awards and honors
- 2001: {{ill|Albert Maucher-Preis|de}} of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG){{Cite web|url=https://www.dfg.de/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/2001/pressemitteilung_nr_47/index.html|title=DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – Albert Maucher-Preis 2001 an Gerald Haug|website=www.dfg.de}}
- 2007: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG{{Cite web|url=https://www.dfg.de/gefoerderte_projekte/wissenschaftliche_preise/leibniz-preis/2007/haug/index.jsp|title=DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – Prof. Dr. Gerald Haug – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preisträger 2007|website=www.dfg.de}}
- 2010: Rössler Prize{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethlife.ethz.ch/archive_articles/100618_roessler_preis_su/|title=Grundlagenforschung unabdingbar|website=www.ethlife.ethz.ch}}
Selected publications
- {{cite journal | last1=Haug | first1=Gerald H. | last2=Tiedemann | first2=Ralf | title=Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation | journal=Nature | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=393 | issue=6686 | year=1998 | issn=0028-0836 | doi=10.1038/31447 | pages=673–676| bibcode=1998Natur.393..673H | s2cid=4421505 }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Haug | first1=Gerald H. | last2=Sigman | first2=Daniel M. | last3=Tiedemann | first3=Ralf | last4=Pedersen | first4=Thomas F. | last5=Sarnthein | first5=Michael | title=Onset of permanent stratification in the subarctic Pacific Ocean | journal=Nature | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=401 | issue=6755 | year=1999 | issn=0028-0836 | doi=10.1038/44550 | pages=779–782| bibcode=1999Natur.401..779H | s2cid=4413377 }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Haug | first1=Gerald H. | last2=Tiedemann | first2=Ralf | last3=Zahn | first3=Rainer | last4=Ravelo | first4=A. Christina | title=Role of Panama uplift on oceanic freshwater balance | journal=Geology | publisher=Geological Society of America | volume=29 | issue=3 | year=2001 | issn=0091-7613 | doi=10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0207:ropuoo>2.0.co;2 | page=207| bibcode=2001Geo....29..207H }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Haug | first1=Gerald H. | last2=Hughen | first2=Konrad A. | last3=Sigman | first3=Daniel M. | last4=Peterson | first4=Larry C. | last5=Röhl | first5=Ursula | title=Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=293 | issue=5533 | date=17 August 2001 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.1059725 | pages=1304–1308| pmid=11509727 | bibcode=2001Sci...293.1304H | s2cid=24591761 }}
- with Daniel M. Sigman: [https://www.princeton.edu/sigman/publications/pdf/Sigman03ToG.pdf The biological pump in the past]. In: Henry Elderfield (Hrsg.): Treatise on Geochemistry. Volume 6: The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry. Elsevier, 2003, {{ISBN|0-08-043744-3}} (PDF)
- {{cite journal | last1=Haug | first1=Gerald H. | last2=Günther | first2=Detlef | last3=Peterson | first3=Larry C. | last4=Sigman | first4=Daniel M. | last5=Hughen | first5=Konrad A. | last6=Aeschlimann | first6=Beat | title=Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization | journal=Science | publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | volume=299 | issue=5613 | date=14 March 2003 | issn=0036-8075 | doi=10.1126/science.1080444 | pages=1731–1735| pmid=12637744 | bibcode=2003Sci...299.1731H | s2cid=128596188 }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Haug | first1=Gerald H. | last2=Ganopolski | first2=Andrey | last3=Sigman | first3=Daniel M. | last4=Rosell-Mele | first4=Antoni | last5=Swann | first5=George E. A. | last6=Tiedemann | first6=Ralf | last7=Jaccard | first7=Samuel L. | last8=Bollmann | first8=Jörg | last9=Maslin | first9=Mark A. | last10=Leng | first10=Melanie J. | last11=Eglinton | first11=Geoffrey | title=North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago | journal=Nature | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=433 | issue=7028 | year=2005 | issn=0028-0836 | doi=10.1038/nature03332 | pages=821–825| pmid=15729332 | bibcode=2005Natur.433..821H | s2cid=24116155 | url=https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_231798 }}
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