David Archer (scientist)

David Archer is a computational ocean chemist,^[1] and has been a professor at the Geophysical Sciences department at the University of Chicago since 1993.^[2] He has published research on the carbon cycle of the ocean and the sea floor. He has worked on the history of atmospheric CO₂ 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.^[1]

He is a contributor to the RealClimate blog.^[1]

Teaching responsibilities

He teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry, and global geochemical cycles.^[2]

Education

He obtained his Ph.D from the University of Washington in 1990.^[2]

Selected papers

• Archer, D.; Eby, M.; Brovkin, V.; Ridgwell, A.; Cao, L.; Mikolajewicz, U.; Caldeira, K.; Matsumoto, K.; Munhoven, G.; Montenegro, A.; Tokos, K. (2009). "Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 37: 117. Bibcode:2009AREPS..37..117A. doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100206. 
• Brovkin, V.; Ganopolski, A.; Archer, D.; Rahmstorf, S. (2007). "Lowering of glacial atmospheric CO₂ in response to changes in oceanic circulation and marine biogeochemistry". Paleoceanography. 22 (4): PA4202. Bibcode:2007PalOc..22.4202B. doi:10.1029/2006PA001380. 
• Montenegro, A.; Brovkin, V.; Eby, M.; Archer, D.; Weaver, A. J. (2007). "Long term fate of anthropogenic carbon". Geophysical Research Letters. 34 (19): L19707. Bibcode:2007GeoRL..3419707M. doi:10.1029/2007GL030905. 
• Gehrie, E.; Archer, D.; Emerson, S.; Stump, C.; Henning, C. (2006). "Subsurface ocean argon disequilibrium reveals the equatorial Pacific shadow zone". Geophysical Research Letters. 33 (18): L18608. Bibcode:2006GeoRL..3318608G. doi:10.1029/2006GL026935. 
• Zeebe, R. E.; Archer, D. (2005). "Feasibility of ocean fertilization and its impact on future atmospheric CO₂ levels". Geophysical Research Letters. 32 (9): L09703. Bibcode:2005GeoRL..3209703Z. doi:10.1029/2005GL022449. 
• Archer, D.; Buffett, B. (2005). "Time-dependent response of the global ocean clathrate reservoir to climatic and anthropogenic forcing" (PDF). Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 6 (3): Q03002. Bibcode:2005GGG.....603002A. doi:10.1029/2004GC000854. 
• Archer, D. (2005). "Fate of fossil fuel CO₂ in geologic time" (Full free text). Journal of Geophysical Research. 110: C09S05. Bibcode:2005JGRC..11009S05A. doi:10.1029/2004JC002625. 
• Archer, D. E.; Martin, P. A.; Milovich, J.; Brovkin, V.; Plattner, G. -K.; Ashendel, C. (2003). "Model sensitivity in the effect of Antarctic sea ice and stratification on atmospheric pCO2". Paleoceanography. 18: 1012. Bibcode:2003PalOc..18a..12A. doi:10.1029/2002PA000760. 

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

References