Professor Daniel Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth history. He has examined changes in ocean circulation over the last several decades, with particular attention to El Niño and the tropical Pacific. He has worked on theories for Pleistocene ice-age cycles including a better determination of ocean temperatures during the Last Glacial Maximum, 20,000 years ago.
Dan also helped develop the Snowball Earth hypothesis, proposing that a series of global glaciations occurred between 750 and 580 million years ago that may have led to the evolution of multicellular animals. Currently he is working with economists and engineers on technological approaches to mitigating future climate change.


C U R R I C U L U M   V I T A E
Date of Birth: January 25, 1966
Education:
           B.S. 1988, Yale University (Geology & Geophysics and Political Science)
           Ph.D. 1993, University of California at Berkeley (Geology)
Ph.D. Dissertation Supervisors:
Donald J. DePaolo (U.C. Berkeley)
Frank M. Richter (Univ. of Chicago)		 Post-Doctoral Supervisor:
John M. Hayes (Indiana Univ.)
Honors:
           James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (2001)
           MacArthur Fellow (2000)
           Technology Review TR100 - 100 young innovators for the next century (1999)
           Ocean Drilling Program Fellowship (Berkeley) (1992)
           Samuel Lewis Penfield Prize in Mineralogy (Yale) (1988)
           Katherine K. Walker Prize in Political Science (Yale) (1988)
           Frank M. Patterson Prize in Political Science (Yale) (1987)
           Westinghouse Science Talent Search Finalist (1984)
Professional Experience:
           Professor, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2000-
             Harvard University
           Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1997-2000
             Harvard University
           Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geosciences, Princeton University 1994 -1997
           Visiting Researcher, Indiana University 1993
           Geologist, Newmont Mining 1988
Memberships:
American Geophysical Union; Geochemical Society; American Meteorological Society; American Academy for the Advancement of Science; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Service:
Professional: Board of Reviewing Editors, Science (2002 - 2005); Associate Editor, Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst. (1999 - ); Advisory Committee for Earth Institute of Columbia University (2002 - ).

University:
University Center for the Environment (Director); Center for Geographic Analysis (Steering Committee); Committee on Oceanography; Board of Tutors for Environmental Science and Public Policy; Committee on Collections for Earth and Planetary Sciences; Faculty Advisory Committee on Affiliated Housing.
Research Interests:
Application of geochemistry to problems concerning the geologic record of climate change, history of the oceans and atmosphere, and interactions between the environment and life.
Publications: See Research page for list of publications.

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