David Archer Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the College My Publications My Data Server My Model Server Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast Watch A Lecture My Realclimate Blog Posts My Vita Classes

I have been a professor in the Department of The Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago since 1993. I have worked on a wide range of topics pertaining to the global carbon cycle and its relation to global climate, with special focus on ocean sedimentary processes such as CaCO₃ dissolution and methane hydrate formation, and their impact on the evolution of atmospheric CO₂.

I currently teach classes on global warming, environmental chemistry, and global geochemical cycles. I have written a textbook for non-science major undergraduates called Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, published by Blackwell Press, and I am currently working on a book entitled From Here to Eternity: Global Warming in Geologic Time.

I am a contributing editor to the climate science blog site realclimate.org.

Education:

• University of Washington, Ph.D., 1990