Caldeira, Ken

Ken Caldeira ( Ken Caldeira ; born 1960) is an American scientist, climatologist, researcher of climate evolution and the global carbon cycle . He is also engaged in marine biogeochemistry and chemical oceanography, in particular ocean acidification, energy technologies and geoengineering . It is believed that he coined the term " ocean acidification " ^[2] . Doctor of Philosophy (1991), researcher at the Carnegie Institute (since 2005), professor at Stanford , Fell American Geophysical Union (2010) ^[3] . From 1995 to 2005, he collaborated at the Livermore National Laboratory , in which in 2004 he was awarded its highest distinction - the Edward Teller Fellowship scholarship. Before that, he was a postdoc in the same place (1993-1995) and at the University of Pennsylvania (1991-1993). A graduate of Rutgers College (Bachelor of Philosophy, 1978), at the Department of Applied Science at New York University, received a master's degree (1988) and a Ph.D. (1991) in atmospheric sciences. In the years of doctoral studies he studied in Leningrad with Mikhail Budyko ^[4] . Grew up in a suburb of New York.

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Lead author of the . Published in Nature and Science . Among its co-authors are and .

In 2013, top climatologists Caldeira, Emanuel , Hansen and Wigley appealed through the media to leaders of major powers with an appeal to support the development of safer nuclear energy technologies and to reject the rejection of nuclear energy ^{[5] [6] [7]} .

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize as part of the IPCC ^[8] . Also in 2007, he was awarded the Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture ^[9] . In 2009, he was named among Rolling Stone 's 100 Agents of Change ^[10] . In 2018, he was awarded the lecture named after Carl Sagan of the American Geophysical Union ^[11] . He is greeted by Bill Gates ^[12] .

Married in 1991.