March 29th, 2004
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Dr. Daniel Schrag Director, Laboratory for Geochemical Oceanography, and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

Publications

Publications marked with a * are directly accessible only from a Columbia University computer. For outside access, please consult your institution's library or the publisher.

Adkins, Jess F.; Katherine McIntyre, Daniel P. Schrag. "The Salinity, Temperature and δ 18 of the Glacial Deep Ocean." Science 298 (November 29, 2002): 1769–73, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/298/5599/1769.

*Eshel, G., D. P. Schrag, and B. F. Farrell. "Troposphere—Planetary Boundary Layer Interactions and the Evolution of Surface Density: Lessons from Red Sea Corals." Journal of Climate, 13 (2000): 339–51, 2000, http://ams.allenpress.com/amsonline/.

Rodgers, K. B., D. P. Schrag, M. A. Cane, and N. H. Naik. "The Bomb-14C Transient in the Pacific Ocean." Journal of Geophysical Research—Oceans 105 (2000): 8489–8512.

*Schrag, Daniel P. and Braddock K. Linsley. "Corals, Chemistry, and Climate." Science 296, no. 5566 (April 12, 2002): 277–78, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/296/5566/277.

*Schrag, Daniel P., Paul F. Hoffman, and William T. Hyde. "Life, Geology and Snowball Earth." Nature 409, no. 6818 (January 18, 2001): 306,
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v409/n6818/full/409306a0_fs.html.

*Schrag, D. P. "Of Ice and Elephants." Nature, 404 (2000): 23–24, 2000, http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v404/n6773/full/404023a0_fs.html.

Biographical Information

Daniel Schrag is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. 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. Schrag has also developed 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.

Schrag is currently working on creating integrated models of climate change and economic stability for developing countries. Schrag came to Harvard in 1997 after teaching at Princeton, and studying at Berkeley and Yale.