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Overview

Gary Shaffer is affiliated with the University of Magallanes in Chile. Their research spans several interconnected areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. The primary focus of their work includes atmospheric science, global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, mechanical engineering, and paleontology.

The main topics covered by Gary Shaffer's research include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, carbon dioxide capture technologies, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, isotope analysis in ecology, and climate change and health impacts.

Frequent coauthors contributing to their publications are Fabrice Lambert, Frank Lamy, Andrew H. MacDougall, Thomas L. Frölicher, and Chris Jones.

Gary Shaffer's publications have appeared in a range of scientific journals including:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • Nature Communications
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Gary Shaffer are:

  • Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO 2, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Regional patterns and temporal evolution of ocean iron fertilization and CO2 drawdown during the last glacial termination, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Impacts of Changes in Atmospheric O2 on Human Physiology. Is There a Basis for Concern?, 2021, Frontiers in Physiology
  • Enhanced deglacial carbon transport by Pacific southern-sourced intermediate and mode water, 2025, Nature Communications
  • Presentation, calibration and testing of the DCESS II Earth system model of intermediate complexity (version 1.0), 2025, Geoscientific Model Development

Best Publications

  • Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics:a multi-model analysis

    Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos;Raphael Roth;Raphael Roth;J. S. Fuglestvedt;G. P. Peters

  • Pattern and Process of Land Loss in the Mississippi Delta: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Wetland Habitat Change

    John W. Day;Louis D. Britsch;Suzanne R. Hawes;Gary P. Shaffer

  • Long-Term climate change commitment and reversibility: An EMIC intercomparison

    Kirsten Zickfeld;Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;Kaitlin Alexander

  • Long-term ocean oxygen depletion in response to carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels

    Gary Shaffer;Gary Shaffer;Steffen Malskær Olsen;Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen

  • Coastal transition zone off Chile

    Samuel Hormazabal;Gary Shaffer;Ole Leth

  • Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an intercomparison of Earth system models of intermediate complexity

    Michael Eby;Andrew J. Weaver;K. Alexander;K. Zickfeld

  • Seasonal and interannual variability of currents and temperature off central Chile

    Gary Shaffer;Samuel Hormazabal;Oscar Pizarro;Sergio Salinas

  • Circulation and Low-Frequency Variability near the Chilean Coast: Remotely Forced Fluctuations during the 1991–92 El Niño

    Gary Shaffer;Oscar Pizarro;Leif Djurfeldt;Sergio Salinas

  • Is there warming in the pipeline? A multi-model analysis of the Zero Emissions Commitment from CO 2

    Andrew H. MacDougall;Thomas L. Frölicher;Thomas L. Frölicher;Chris D. Jones;Joeri Rogelj;Joeri Rogelj

  • Long-term effectiveness and consequences of carbon dioxide sequestration

    Gary Shaffer;Gary Shaffer

  • Phosphate pumps and shuttles in the Black Sea

    Gary Shaffer

  • Vegetation dynamics in the emerging Atchafalaya Delta, Louisiana, USA.

    Gary P. Shaffer;Charles E. Sasser;James G. Gosselink;Marcel Rejmanek

  • Local and remote forcing of sea surface temperature in the coastal upwelling system off Chile

    Samuel Hormazabal;Gary Shaffer;Jaime Letelier;Osvaldo Ulloa

  • Dust fluxes and iron fertilization in Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum climates

    Fabrice Lambert;Fabrice Lambert;Alessandro Tagliabue;Gary Shaffer;Gary Shaffer;Frank Lamy

  • Dynamics of seasonal and interannual variability of the Peru‐Chile Undercurrent

    Oscar Pizarro;Gary Shaffer;Boris Dewitte;Marcel Ramos

  • Landscape Conservation in a Forested Wetland Watershed

    James G. Gosselink;Gary P. Shaffer;Lyndon C. Lee;David M. Burdick

  • Ocean subsurface warming as a mechanism for coupling Dansgaard-Oeschger climate cycles and ice-rafting events

    Gary Shaffer;Gary Shaffer;Steffen Malskær Olsen;Christian J. Bjerrum

  • Role of the Bering Strait in controlling North Atlantic ocean circulation and climate

    Gary Shaffer;Jorgen Bendtsen

  • Degradation of Baldcypress–Water Tupelo Swamp to Marsh and Open Water in Southeastern Louisiana, U.S.A.: An Irreversible Trajectory?

    Gary P. Shaffer;William B. Wood;Susanne S. Hoeppner;Thais E. Perkins

  • Mississippi river sediment diversions and coastal wetland sustainability: Synthesis of responses to freshwater, sediment, and nutrient inputs

    T. Elsey-Quirk;S.A. Graham;I.A. Mendelssohn;G. Snedden

  • Currents in the deep ocean off Chile (30°S)

    Gary Shaffer;Sergio Salinas;Oscar Pizarro;Andres Vega

Frequent Co-Authors

Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
John W. Day
John W. Day Louisiana State University
Chris E. Forest
Chris E. Forest Pennsylvania State University
Andy Ridgwell
Andy Ridgwell University of California, Riverside
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Ayako Abe-Ouchi University of Tokyo
Michael Eby
Michael Eby University of Victoria
Renato Spahni
Renato Spahni University of Bern
Thomas L. Frölicher
Thomas L. Frölicher University of Bern
Kirsten Zickfeld
Kirsten Zickfeld Simon Fraser University

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