⁣Ken Caldeira has been a Carnegie investigator since 2005 and is world
renowned for his modeling and other work on the global carbon cycle;
marine biogeochemistry and chemical oceanography, including ocean
acidification and the atmosphere/ocean carbon cycle; land-cover and
climate change; the long-term evolution of climate and geochemical
cycles; climate intervention proposals; and energy technology.
Caldeira was a lead author for the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) AR5 report and was coordinating lead author of the
oceans chapter for the 2005 IPCC report on carbon capture and storage.
He was a co-author of the 2010 US National Academy America’s Climate
Choices report, and participated in the UK Royal Society geoengineering
panel in 2009 and ocean acidification panel in 2005. He was a lead
author of the 2007 U.S. “State of the Carbon Cycle Report.
Caldeira was invited by the National Academy of Sciences Ocean
Studies Board to deliver the 2007 Roger Revelle Lecture, “What Coral
Reefs Are Dying to Tell Us About CO2 and Ocean Acidification.” In 2010, Caldeira was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
From the early 1990s to 2005, Caldeira was with the Energy and
Environment Directorate at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
where he was awarded the Edward Teller Fellowship (2004), the highest
award given by that laboratory. Caldeira did post-doctoral research at
Penn State University and in the Energy and Environment Directorate of
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Caldeira received his B.A. from
Rutgers College and both his M.S. and Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from
New York University. In the 1980’s, Caldeira held a number of positions
developing computer software for various clients in New York’s
financial district. Learn more at http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/