Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology
Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Director, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Research Interests:
Geochemical oceanography; stable isotope geochemistry; paleoclimatology; climate change; carbon sequestration; energy technology.
Environmental Courses:
EPS 207r: Geochemical Oceanography
EPS 239: The Consequences of Energy Systems
[EPS 344: Topics in Stable Isotope Geochemistry and Geochemical Oceanography]
[ESPP 90m: Technological Approaches to Mitigation of Climate Change]
[Science of the Physical Universe 29. The Climate-Energy Challenge]
Related Publications:
Tziperman, E, Abbot, DS, Ashkenazy, Y, Gildor, H, Pollard, D, Schoof, CG, and Schrag, DP. Continental constriction and oceanic ice-cover thickness in a Snowball-Earth scenario. JGR-Oceans, 117, C05016, 2012.
Schrag, DP. Is shale gas good for climate change? Dӕdalus, 141(2), 72-80, 2012.
Johnston, DT, Macdonald, FA, Gill, BC, Hoffman, PF, and Schrag, DP. Uncovering the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle. Nature, 483, 320-U110, 2012.
Schrag, DP. Hope and the Climate Scientist: Response to McKibben’s Human Flourishing Depends on What We Do Now, in Ecologies of Human Flourishing, edited by D Swearer and S McGarry. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 169-174, 2011.
Anderson, J, Archer, D, Battisti, D, Bender, M, Cane, M, deMenocal, P, Emanuel, K, Fung, I, Huybers, P, Keeling, R, Molina, M, Pierrehumbert, R, Schrag, D, and Wofsy, S. On writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit: Brief of amicus curiae in support of the respondents. American Electric Power Company, Inc., et al., v. State of Connecticut, et al. Supreme Court of the United States, No. 10-174, 2011.
Dennis, KJ, Affek, HP, Passey, BH, Schrag, DP, and Eiler, JM. Defining an absolute reference frame for ‘clumped’ isotope studies of CO2. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 75(22), 7117-7131, 2011.
Tziperman, E, Halevy, I, Johnston, DT, Knoll, AH, and Schrag, DP. Biologically induced initiation of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth events. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 108, 15091-15096, 2011.
Jones, DS, Fike, DA, Finnegan, S, Fischer, WW, Schrag, DP, and McCay, D. Terminal Ordovician carbon isotope stratigraphy and glacioeustatic sea-level change across Anticosti Island (Quebec, Canada). GSA Bulletin, 123(7-8), 1645-1664, 2011.
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