James F. Kasting

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James Fraser Kasting (born January 2, 1953 in Schenectady ) is a geoscientist at Pennsylvania State University .

Kasting graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1975 and the University of Michigan with a master's degree in physics and atmospheric science in 1978 and a doctorate in 1979 in atmospheric science. As a post-doctoral student , he was at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and from 1981 at the Ames Research Center of NASA , where he worked as a permanent employee from 1983. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Earth Sciences at Pennsylvania State University.

Kasting has dealt in particular with the evolutionary history of the earth and its atmosphere and also used this to consider the probability of life in other solar systems. In particular, his study on the habitat zone , published in 1993, is considered a milestone in the research area.

Kasting is also a member of various scientific societies, such as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the National Academy of Sciences and the Geochemical Society. For 2016 he was awarded the NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences .

He is married and has three children.

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  1. Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. Kasting, James F., Whitmore, Daniel P .; Reynolds, Ray T., 1993, Habitable Zones Around Main Sequence Stars, Icarus, Issue 101, pp. 108–128 Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.3 MB) doi: 10.1006 / icar.1993.1010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geosc.psu.edu