David Archer

Who is David Archer?

David Archer is a computational ocean chemist, and has been a professor at the Geophysical Sciences department at the University of Chicago since 1993. He has published research on the carbon cycle of the ocean and the sea floor. He has worked on the history of atmospheric CO₂ concentration, the fate of fossil fuel CO₂ over geologic time scales in the future, and the impact of CO₂ on future ice age cycles, ocean methane hydrate decomposition, and coral reefs.

He is a contributor to the RealClimate blog.