Kate Marvel

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Kate Marvel (2016)

Kate Marvel is a climate scientist and columnist . She is a researcher at Columbia University and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies . She is known to a broad audience through her "Hot Planet" column in Scientific American magazine .

Life

Marvel's interest in astronomy was sparked by a compulsory college course. She then studied physics and astronomy at UC Berkeley . She received her PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge in 2008 . Her scientific stations included the Carnegie Institution , the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Stanford University . She taught statistics and algebra at San Quentin State Prison for a while .

Act

Marvel's research focuses on climate models and clouds . In her research, Marvel uses satellite observations of the climate system, reconstructions of past climate change, and computer models of the climate to understand climate change .

At the turn of the year 2019/2020 she summed up the previous decade as follows: “This is the decade in which we knew we were right. It started with the warmest year on record; This record was broken at least five times afterwards. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached unprecedented levels since humans were hominins. There were droughts and floods and brutal heat waves. Coral reefs turned white and gave up. Australia is subject to the drought. The Amazon is on fire. "

Marvel counts Kim Cobb , Katharine Hayhoe , Rhiana Gunn-Wright , Katharine Wilkinson and Ayana Johnson among her role models.

The US American Time magazine listed her in the article “Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change” in 2019 as one of 15 women who lead the fight against climate change.

Publications (selection)

  • with C. Bonfils: Identifying external influences on global precipitation . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110 (48), 19301-19306, 2013, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.1314382110
  • with B. Kravitz, K. Caldeira: Geophysical limits to global wind power . Nature Climate Change, 3 (2), 118, 2013, doi: 10.1038 / nclimate1683
  • with GA Schmidt, RL Miller, LS Nazarenko: Implications for climate sensitivity from the response to individual forcings . Nature Climate Change, 6 (4), 386, 2016, doi: 10.1038 / nclimate2888

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  1. ↑ a b c d e https://www.carbonbrief.org/carbon-brief-interview-dr-kate-marvel (accessed on January 1, 2020)
  2. ↑ a b c d e https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/328/kate-marvel/ (accessed January 1, 2020)
  3. ↑ Kate Marvel: This Was the Decade We Knew We Were Right. Scientific America, December 30, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 (cd).
  4. ↑ Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change. Time, September 12, 2019, accessed January 1, 2020 .
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SURNAME Marvel, Kate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American climate scientist and columnist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century