Mr Daniel Schrag

KANDO id: 37429

Bio

Daniel Schrag is the Director of Harvard’s Center for the Environment and is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering at Harvard University. Dan studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth’s history. He has examined changes in ocean circulation over the last several decades, with particular attention to El Niño and the tropical Pacific; he investigates Pleistocene ice-age cycles over the last million years; he studies the warm climates of the Eocene, 50 million years ago; and, with colleagues from Harvard, helped to develop the Snowball Earth hypothesis that explains extreme glacial events that occurred over 600 million years ago. Currently he is working on the early history of Mars and Earth, trying to understand the environmental conditions around the time of the origin of life. He is also working on new technological approaches to mitigating future climate change, including advanced energy technologies for low-carbon transportation fuel, and carbon sequestration. Dan received a BS from Yale and a PhD in Geology from the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at Princeton before moving to Harvard in 1997. Among various honors, he was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2000.

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Advanced Technology Ventures

Venture capital firm with a focus on Information Technology, Healthcare and Cleantech

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