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  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

David Archer is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. The research work spans several interconnected fields including Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Energy, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Agronomy and Crop Science, Economics and Econometrics, and Environmental Chemistry.

Key research topics associated with Archer's work include:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology

David Archer has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, such as Edwin S. Kite, Greg Lusk, Jinan Guan, Xiaorong Cong, and Lihua Wan.

The publication record includes articles in notable venues, reflecting a range of research interests:

  • Climatic Change
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Agronomy

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Archer are:

  • "The ultimate cost of carbon," published in 2020 in Climatic Change
  • "Spatio-temporal evolution of stratigraphic-diffusive methane hydrate reservoirs since the Pliocene along Shenhu continental slope, northern South China sea," published in 2020 in Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • "Winter Triticale: A Long-Term Cropping Systems Experiment in a Dry Mediterranean Climate," published in 2020 in Agronomy

David Archer was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Geochemical Consequences of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Coral Reefs

    Joan A. Kleypas;Robert W. Buddemeier;David Archer;Jean Pierre Gattuso

  • The middle Pleistocene transition: characteristics, mechanisms, and implications for long-term changes in atmospheric pCO2

    Peter U. Clark;David E. Archer;David Pollard;Joel D Blum

  • Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide

    David Archer;Michael Eby;Victor Brovkin;Andy Ridgwell

  • Biochar: a synthesis of its agronomic impact beyond carbon sequestration.

    Kurt A. Spokas;Keri B. Cantrell;Jeffrey M. Novak;David W. Archer

  • Association of sinking organic matter with various types of mineral ballast in the deep sea: Implications for the rain ratio

    Christine Klaas;Christine Klaas;David E. Archer

  • Fate of fossil fuel CO2 in geologic time

    David Archer

  • Effect of deep-sea sedimentary calcite preservation on atmospheric CO 2 concentration

    D. Archer;D. Archer;Ernst Maier-Reimer

  • Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

    Bärbel Hönisch;N. Gary Hemming;N. Gary Hemming;David Archer;Mark Siddall

  • What caused the glacial/interglacial atmospheric pCO2 cycles?

    David Archer;Arne Winguth;David Lea;Natalie Mahowald

  • Consequences of twenty-first-century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea-level change

    Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Shaun A. Marcott;Alan C. Mix

  • Global inventory of methane clathrate: sensitivity to changes in the deep ocean

    Bruce Buffett;David Archer

  • Methane hydrate stability and anthropogenic climate change

    D. Archer

  • Ocean methane hydrates as a slow tipping point in the global carbon cycle

    David Archer;Bruce Buffett;Victor Brovkin

  • Lifetime of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Millennial Time Scales of Potential CO2 and Surface Temperature Perturbations

    M. Eby;K. Zickfeld;A. Montenegro;D. Archer

  • The millennial atmospheric lifetime of anthropogenic CO2

    David Archer;Victor Brovkin

  • Multiple timescales for neutralization of fossil fuel CO2

    David Archer;Haroon Kheshgi;Ernst Maier-Reimer

  • Dynamics of fossil fuel CO2 neutralization by marine CaCO3

    David Archer;Haroon Kheshgi;Ernst Maier-Reimer

  • Dissolution of calcite in deep-sea sediments: pH and O2 microelectrode results

    David Archer;Steven Emerson;Clare Reimers

  • Benthic oxygen fluxes on the Washington shelf and slope: A comparison of in situ microelectrode and chamber flux measurements

    David Archer;Allan Devol

  • The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate

    David Archer

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Rahmstorf
Stefan Rahmstorf Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Victor Brovkin
Victor Brovkin Max Planck Society
Andrew J. Weaver
Andrew J. Weaver University of Victoria
Ernst Maier-Reimer
Ernst Maier-Reimer Max Planck Society
Steven Emerson
Steven Emerson University of Washington
Michael Eby
Michael Eby University of Victoria
Peter B deMenocal
Peter B deMenocal Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Andy Ridgwell
Andy Ridgwell University of California, Riverside
Patrizia Ziveri
Patrizia Ziveri Autonomous University of Barcelona

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