March 29th, 2004
Earth's Chronic Disease

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Wallace S. Broecker Newberry Professor of Geology and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia 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.

Broecker, Wallace S. "The Oceanic CaCO₃ Cycle." In The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry, ed. H. Elderfield. Vol. 6, Treatise on Geochemistry. Oxford: Elsevier-Pergamon, 2003.

Broecker, Wallace S. and E. Clark. "CaCO₃ Dissolution in the Deep Sea: Paced by Insolation Cycles." Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3) 4, no. 7 (July 15, 2003).

Broecker, Wallace S. "Does the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change Reside in the Oceans or in the Atmosphere?" Science 300, no. 5625 (June 6, 2003): 1519–22.

Broecker, Wallace S. The Glacial World According to Wally, 3rd rev. ed. New York: Eldigio Press, 2002.

Broecker, Wallace S. How to Build a Habitable Planet. New York: Eldigio Press, 1985.

Biographical Information

Wallace Broecker graduated from Columbia College and received his doctorate from Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 1959 and is currently Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979 and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1996. His research has tied the global transport of heat energy by ocean currents (the ocean conveyor belt) to abrupt shifts of the Earth's climate.