Gerald Haug

Gerald H. Haug (born April 14, 1968 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German geologic climatologist, prize winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Since 2007 he has a professorship at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland.^[1] In 2015 he became director of the Climate Geochemistry Department and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.^[2]

Career

Gerald Haug graduated in Geology at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1992 and received his PhD at the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1995. From 1995 to 1996 he worked as a postdoc at GEOMAR, Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. From 1996-1997 he had been a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Oceanography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,^[3] USA, and became later a research assistant professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA (1997-1998). In 2000-2002, he worked as a senior assistant at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and habilitated in the Earth Sciences (2002).

Haug is signee of a protest note which points out the dangers arising from a belittlement of the climate change^[4][5]

Awards and honors

• 2001: Albert Maucher-Preis für Geowissenschaften der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft^[6]
• 2007: Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preis der DFG^[7]
• 2010: Max-Rössler-Preis der ETH Zürich^[8]

Selected publications

• together with Ralf Tiedemann: Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation. In: Nature. Vol. 393, 1998, S. 673–676, doi:10.1038/31447 (PDF)
• together with Daniel M. Sigman, Ralf Tiedemann, Thomas F. Pedersen & Michael Sarnthein: Onset of permanent stratification in the subarctic Pacific Ocean. In: Nature. Vol. 401, 1999, S. 779–782, doi:10.1038/44550 (PDF)
• together with Ralf Tiedemann, Rainer Zahn & A. Christina Ravelo: Role of Panama uplift on oceanic freshwater balance. In: Geology. Band 29, Nr. 3, 3. Januar 2001, S. 207–210, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0207:ROPUOO>2.0.CO;2 (PDF).
• togethter Konrad A. Hughen, Daniel M. Sigman, Larry C. Peterson & Ursula Röhl: Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene. In: S cience. Vol. 299, No. 5533, 2001, S. 1304–1308, doi:10.1126/science.1059725 (PDF)
• together with Daniel M. Sigman: The biological pump in the past. In: Henry Elderfield (Hrsg.): Treatise on Geochemistry. Volume 6: The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry. Elsevier, 2003, ISBN 0-08-043744-3 (PDF)
• together with Detlef Günther, Larry C. Peterson, Daniel M. Sigman, Konrad A. Hughen & Beat Aeschlimann: Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization. In: Science. Vol. 299, No. 5613, 2003, S. 1731–1735, doi:10.1126/science.1080444 (PDF)
• together with Andrey Ganopolski, Daniel M. Sigman, Antoni Rosell-Mele, George E. A. Swann, Ralf Tiedemann, Samuel L. Jaccard, Jörg Bollmann, Mark A. Maslin, Melanie J. Leng & Geoffrey Eglinton: North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago. In: Nature. Vol. 433, 2005, S. 821–825, doi:10.1038/nature03332 (PDF)

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