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Education

• Ph. D. (physical oceanography), 1996, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
• M.Phil. (physical oceanography), 1994, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
• M.A. (physical oceanography), 1993, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
• B.A. 1988, Haifa University/Technion, Israel

Dissertation

• Title: Coupling of deep water formation and the general circulation: A case study of the Red Sea
• Advisor: Mark A. Cane, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Sponser: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/National Oceanic and Atmospheric
  Administration, Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Host: Brian F. Farrell, Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, Harvard

Professional Experience

• Bard Center Fellow, Simon's Rock College of Bard, 2007-
• Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago, 1999-2007
• Senior Fellow,Center for Environmental Science and Argonne National Laboratory, 2002-2007
• Principal Investigator,Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science, The University of Chicago, 2001-2003
• Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., 1998-1999
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1996-1998
• Research Assistant, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 1991-1996
• Teaching Assistant, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Fall 1993

Undergraduate Honors Theses Supervised

• Nicholas Heavens (Geophysical Sciences): The effects of surrounding deserts on the marine boundary layer: A case study of the Red Sea
• Joe Bernstein (Mathematics and Physics): Non-normal perturbation growth in a 1-layer QG Ocean Gyre Sigma Xi Best Undergraduate Student Paper
• Grace Lee (Geophysical Sciences): Predictability of West Coast Winter Rainfall
• Everest Ong (Geophysical Sciences): North Atlantic SST Autocorrelation

Graduate Students Committees

Recent Outreach Activities

• Invited Speaker, Food, Ethics and the Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, , NJ, November 16-17, 2006keynote speaker, 8th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms and Extreme Events in and Era of Climate Change, October 17-20, the Dead Sea, Israel
• invited guest faculty, June 10-16 2006, the Santa Fe Complex System Summer School, The Santa Fe Institute
• invited talk, fall 2005 AGU, The Buoyancy Budget of the Northern Red Sea
• guest commentator on hurricanes and global climate change, NBC5 Chicago, September 2005
• guest commentator on the environmental significance of hurricane Katrina, CBS2 Chicago, September 2005
• briefed Senator Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL) on global climate change, Capitol Hill, September 2005
• nvited speaker, UCAR/NOAA OGP 100th Global and Climate Change Postdoc Celebration, Washington, DC, April 2005
• invited speaker, Global Warming conference, Chicago, 2005
• guest, The Cliff Kelley Show, V-103 (102.7 FM radio), Chicago, 2005
• panelist, Mayor Daley's round table on global warming preparedness, Chicago, 2004
• guest commentator for WVLM Radio, Chicago, 2004
• invited speaker, World Hunger conference, Chicago, 2004
• invited speaker, Pew mathematical sciences undergraduate research conference, Chicago, 2003, 2004
• guest commentator for NBC Television, Chicago, 2003
• guest commentator for Extension 720, WGN Radio, Chicago Tribune, 2002
• guest science mentor for minority high school students in the Museum of Science and Industry's Inspiring Minds in Action Program, Chicago, 2002

Memberships

• American Geophysical Union
• American Meteorological Society

Classes Taught

• Geophysical Data Analysis
• The Atmosphere and Ocean in Motion
• Global Warming
• Environmental Science and Society
• Seminar on Evolution and Climate
• Mathematical Methods in Ecology and Paleontology
• The Planetary Consequences of Human Diet
• The Planetary Footprint of Farming and Food Production (December 2005; mixed field/classroom course; follow this link for more)
• Field Courses (co-teaching):
• Hawaii
• San Salvador Island (Spring 2002 and 2003)

Published Book Reviews

• Climate Development and History of the North Atlantic Realm, by Gerold Wefer et. al, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85(5), pp. 750-751, May 2004
• Strategic Ignorance: Why the Bush Administration Is Recklessly Destroying a Century of Environmental Progress, by Carl Pope and Paul Rauber, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 48, Spring 2005

Publications

Book:

• Eshel, G., Geophysical Data Analysis, to be published by Princeton University Press, early 2008.
• Book Description Including Table of Contents
• Sample Chapters
  • Linear Algebra I
  • Linear Algebra II
  • Analysis of Variance
  • EOF Analysis
  • SVD Analysis
  • Gaussian Elimination, and Non-Normal Growth
  • Some Demonstrations

Papers:

• Eshel, G. and N. Heavens, 2006: The bouyancy budget of the Red Sea boundary layer. Paleoceanography, in press.
• Punyasena, S. W., G. Eshel and J. C. McElwain, 2006: The greater influence of temperature over precipitation on the within-family abundance and richness of Neotropical plant families. Global Ecology and Biogeography, in press.
• Adkins, J. F., G. Eshel and P. B. deMenocal, 2006: The "African Humid Period" and the record of marine upwelling from excess 230Th in ODP hold 658c. Paleoceanography, submitted.
• Fehrenbacher, J., P.A. Martin and G. Eshel, Glacial Atlantic deep water carbonate ion concentration inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios: A case study from the Western Tropical Atlantic. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, in press.
• Eshel, G. and P. A. Martin, 2006: Diet, energy and global warming, Earth Interactions, 10, 1-17.
• Eshel, G. and J. J. Bernstein, 2006: relationship between large-scale atmospheric states, subsidence, static stability and ground-level ozone in Illinois, USA, Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 171, 11-133.
• Eshel, G., 2006: Empirically evaluating divergence rates of atmospheric trajectories. J. Atmos. Sci., 63(2), 741-753.
• Hacker, J., J. Hansen, J. Berner, Y.-Q. Chen, G. Eshel, G. Hakim, S. Lazarus, S. Majumdar, R. Morss, A. Poje, V. Sheremet, Y. Tang and C. Webb, 2005: Predictability. Bul. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86(12), 1733-1737.
• Ziegler, A. M. , G. Eshel, P. M. Rees, T. A. Rothfus, D. B. Rowley and D. Sunderlin, 2003: Tracing the tropics across land and sea: Permian to present. Lethaia, 36, 227-254.
• Eshel, G., 2003: North Atlantic thermal persistence and coherent evolution. J. Geophys. Res. (Oceans), 108(C2), 3029, doi:10.1029/2001JC001180.
• Eshel, G., 2003: Forecasting the North Atlantic Oscillation using Pacific surface pressure. Mon. Weath. Rev., 131, 854-861.
• Eshel, G. and J. J. Bernstein, 2003: Relationship between large-scale atmospheric states, static stability and ground-level ozone in Illinois. The University of Chicago Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science, Technical Report No. 9, September 2003, available from http://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~cises/research/tr.html.
• Eshel, G., 2002: Mediterranean climates. Israel J. Earth Sci., 51, 157-168
• Eshel, G. and B. F. Farrell, 2001: Thermodynamics of eastern Mediterranean rainfall variability. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 87-12.
• Eshel, G. and B. F. Farrell, 2000: Forecasting eastern Mediterranean Droughts. Mon. Weath. Rev., 128, 3618-3630.
• Eshel, G. and B. F. Farrell, 2000: Mechanisms of eastern Mediterranean rainfall variability. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 3219-3232.
• Eshel, G., D. P. Schrag and B. F. Farrell, 2000: Troposphere-planetary boundary Layer interactions and the evolution of surface density: Lessons from Red Sea corals. J. Climate, 13, 339-351.
• Archer, D. E., G. Eshel, A. Winguth, W. S. Broecker, R. T. Pierrehumbert, M. Tobis and R. Jacob, 2000: Atmospheric CO₂ sensitivity to the biological pump in the ocean. Glob. Biogeochem. Cyc., 14, 1219-1230.
• Eshel, G. and N. Naik, 1997: Climatological coastal jet collision, intermediate water formation and the general circulation of the Red Sea. J. Phys. Oce., 27(7), 1233-1257.
• Eshel, G., Coupling of Deep Water Formation and the General Circulation: A Case Study of the Red Sea, Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia Univ., New York, 1996.
• Cane, M.A., G. Eshel, and R.W. Buckland, 1994: Forecasting Zimbabwean maize yield using eastern equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature. Nature, 370, 204-205.
• Eshel, G., M.A. Cane, and M.B. Blumenthal, 1994: Modes of subsurface, intermediate, and deep water renewal in the Red Sea. J. Geophys. Res., 99(C8), 15941-15952.

Some Professional References

• Mark A. Cane, the G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University.
    Address:
    Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
    61 Rte. 9W - PO Box 1000
    Palisades, NY 10964-8000
    Email: mcane@ldeo.columbia.edu
    Phone: (845) 365-8344
    Fax: (845) 365-8736
    Secretaty: Virginia Diblasi-Morris, Tel: (845) 365-8667 Email: virginia@ldeo.columbia.edu
  


• Brian F. Farrell, the Robert P. Burden Professor of Meteorology, the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.
    Address:
    Division of Applied Science
    Harvard University
    107D Pierce Hall
    29 Oxford Street
    Cambridge, MA 02138
    Email: farrell@deas.harvard.edu
    Phone: (617) 495-2998
    Fax: (617) 495-9837
  


• Eli Tziperman, the Pamela and Vasco McCoy, Jr. Professor of Oceanography and Applied Physics, the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.
    Address:
    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
    Harvard University
    20 Oxford Street
    Cambridge, MA 02138-2902
    Email: eli@eps.harvard.edu
    Phone: (617) 384-8381
    Fax: (617) 496-7411
  


• Ed Sarachik, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington.
    Address:
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences
    King Building, Room 114
    Box 351640
    University of Washington
    Seattle, WA 98195-1640
    Email: sarachik@atmos.washington.edu
    Phone: (206) 543-6720
    Fax: (206) 685-3397
  


• John E. Frederick, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago.
    Address:
    Department of the Geophysical Sciences
    HGS 505
    5734 S. Ellis Ave.
    University of Chicago
    Chicago, IL 60637
    Email: frederic@uchicago.edu
    Phone: (773) 702-3237
  

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