Current:Home > MyWallace Broecker -AssetPath
Wallace Broecker
View
Date:2025-04-18 04:42:47
As a Columbia University scientist, Broecker collaborated with Exxon on its climate research starting in the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. Working with Exxon’s Henry Shaw, Broecker and his colleague Taro Takahashi helped analyze the carbon dioxide data collected from the company’s tanker project. Nicknamed the “Grandfather of Climate Science,” Broecker has received numerous awards for his research focused on the ocean’s role in climate change, including the National Medal of Science in 1996. Broecker is a scientist with Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, where he’s been since 1959. He is also the Newberry Professor of Geology at Columbia.
veryGood! (14443)
Related
- SFO's new sensory room helps neurodivergent travelers fight flying jitters
- Global Citizen NOW urges investment in Sub-Saharan Africa and youth outreach
- Arkansas lawmakers approve $6.3 billion budget bill as session wraps up
- IRS says its number of audits is about to surge. Here's who the agency is targeting.
- Opinion: Gianni Infantino, FIFA sell souls and 2034 World Cup for Saudi Arabia's billions
- Black trainer Larry Demeritte brings his $11,000 horse to the Kentucky Derby
- Cops in nation's capital draw ire, support for staying away from campus protest
- Ohio launches effort to clean up voter rolls ahead of November’s presidential election
- Man can't find second winning lottery ticket, sues over $394 million jackpot, lawsuit says
- Rosie O'Donnell reveals she is joining Sex and the City spinoff And Just Like That...
Ranking
- Civic engagement nonprofits say democracy needs support in between big elections. Do funders agree?
- Mississippi high court declines to rule on questions of public funds going to private schools
- Georgia approves contract for Kirby Smart making him the highest-paid coach at public school
- Proof Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky's Cutest Family Moments Are Always in Fashion
- San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo
- Georgia governor signs law adding regulations for production and sale of herbal supplement kratom
- Alabama lawmakers vote to create new high school focused on healthcare, science
- AP Week in Pictures: Global
Recommendation
Highlights from Trump’s interview with Time magazine
Biden says order must prevail on college campuses, but National Guard should not intervene in protests
Answering readers’ questions about the protest movement on US college campuses
Man who bragged that he ‘fed’ an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison
From family road trips to travel woes: Americans are navigating skyrocketing holiday costs
Exxon Mobil deal with Pioneer gets FTC nod, but former Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield barred from board
Michael Cohen hasn’t taken the stand in Trump’s hush money trial. But jurors are hearing his words
Berkshire Hathaway board feels sure Greg Abel is the man to eventually replace Warren Buffett