Michael Oppenheimer

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Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. Prior to joining Princeton he was Chief Scientist with Environmental Defense Fund, where he managed the Climate and Air Program. Prior to his position at the Environmental Defense Fund, Dr. Oppenheimer served as Atomic and Molecular Astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Lecturer on Astronomy at Harvard University. He received an S.B. in chemistry from M.I.T., a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago, and pursued post-doctoral research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

His interests include science and policy of the atmosphere, particularly climate change and its impacts. Much of his research aims to understand the potential for "dangerous" outcomes of increasing levels of greehouse gases by exploring the effects of global warming on ecosystems such as coral reefs, on the ice sheets, and on sea level.He also studies the role played by nongovernmental organizations in the policy arena, the role of scientific learning and scientific assessment in decisions on problems of global change, and the potential value of precautionary frameworks.

Oppenheimer is a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, serving most recently as a lead author of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report. He has authored more than 90 articles published in professional journals and is co-author (with Robert H. Boyle) of a 1990 book, Dead Heat: The Race Against The Greenhouse Effect.

Oppenheimer has appeared with actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio on The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as other television programs such as the 2006 Discovery Channel show entitled Global Warming: What You Need to Know, with Tom Brokaw. Oppenheimer appeared on the 12 February 2007 episode of The Colbert Report.

He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

[edit] Selected Publications

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Naik, V., D. L. Mauzerall, L. W. Horowitz, M. D. Schwarzkopf, V. Ramaswamy, and M. Oppenheimer 2007. "On the sensitivity of radiative forcing from biomass burning aerosols and ozone to emission location" Journal of Geophysical Research Vol. 34, L03818, DOI:10.1029/2006GL028149

Vaishali Naik, Denise Mauzerall, Larry Horowitz, M. Daniel Schwarzkopf, V. Ramaswamy, and Michael Oppenheimer 2005. "Net radiative forcing due to changes in regional emissions of tropospheric ozone precursors" Journal of Geophysical Research 110, D24306 DOI:10.1029/2005JD005908

ME Mann, CM Ammann, RS Bradley, KR Briffa, et al. 2003 "On past temperatures and anomalous late-20th century warmth" Eos: Transactions American Geophysical Union Volume 84, Issue 27, p. 256-257. DOI:10.1029/2003EO270003 (Note: this is the much-discussed "hockey stick" paper.)

M Oppenheimer 1998. "Global warming and the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet" Nature Vol. 393, pp. 325 - 332. 28 May 1998. full text PDF

TW Hartquist, A Dalgarno, M Oppenheimer 1980. "Molecular diagnostics of interstellar shocks" Astrophysical Journal v. 236, no. 1.

M Oppenheimer, ER Constantinides et al. 1977. "Ion photochemistry of the thermosphere from Atmosphere Explorer C measurements" Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 82, Dec. 1, 1977, p. 5485-5492.

M Oppenheimer, A Dalgarno 1974. "The Fractional Ionization in Dense Interstellar Clouds" Astrophysical Journal v. 192, no. 1, pp. 29-32.

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