Stephen E. Calvert

Stephen E. Calvert (born December 30, 1935 in London ) is a Canadian geochemist and oceanographer and professor at the University of British Columbia .

Life

Calvert graduated from the University of Reading with a bachelor's degree in 1958 and the University of California, San Diego . In 1964 he was at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego with Tj. H. van Andel and Edward D. Goldberg received their doctorate.

In particular, Calvert studied the geochemistry of marine sediments both in the present and in the past. He investigated what conclusions can be drawn from this about sea temperatures on the surface, food and sediment transport, carbon and nitrogen balance, oxygen concentration on the sea floor and plankton production in paleo-oceans. In particular, investigated inferences about climatic fluctuations in the Holocene and Pleistocene on the Pacific coast in the American northeast, in Arctic waters, in the Arabian Sea , the coast of California and variability of the monsoons in the South China Sea.

In 1992 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2001 of the American Geophysical Union . In 2001 he received the Logan Medal .

Web links

• Homepage, University of British Columbia