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Pablo Busch

Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science

BioDr. Pablo Busch is an interdisciplinary researcher with training in industrial and environmental engineering, public policy, energy systems, industrial ecology, and statistics. His research broadly focuses on scientific analyses to support a clean energy transition, and to help identify risks to equity and sustainability in the emerging energy transition mineral supply chain. Pablo's main research goal is to conduct scientific analysis to diverse environmental and climate change problems, and to translate key insights from research into a digestible and actionable format for decision-making. His research is fueled by tools from engineering, statistics, geographic information systems, economics and public policy.

Contact Info
pmbusch@stanford.edu

Ken Caldeira

Visiting Scholar, Earth System Science
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BioKen Caldeira is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. He is the Coordinator of the Conceptual Investigations Unit of Steve Davis’s Sustainable Solutions Lab. Caldeira is also a Senior Scientist at Gates Ventures.

Prior to working at Gates Ventures, Ken was Senior Scientist at Carnegie Institution for Science’s Department of Global Ecology. Preceding that he was in the Energy and Environment Directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He did a postdoc in the Department of Geosciences at Penn State University. He has a PhD and MS from New York University in Atmospheric Sciences, and a BA from Rutgers University where he majored in Philosophy.

Karen Casciotti

Associate Dean for Facilities and Shared Labs, Professor of Oceans, of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Current Research and Scholarly InterestsProfessor in Oceans and ESS, focus on marine chemistry and biogeochemistry.

Page Chamberlain

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and of Earth System Science

Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch
I use stable and radiogenic isotopes to understand Earth system history. These studies examine the link between climate, tectonics, biological, and surface processes. Projects include: 1) examining the terrestrial climate history of the Earth focusing on periods of time in the past that had CO 2-levels similar to the present and to future projections; and 2) addressing how the chemical weathering of the Earth's crust affects both the long- and short-term carbon cycle. Field areas for these studies are in the Cascades, Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, the European Alps, Tibet and the Himalaya and the Southern Alps of New Zealand.

International Collaborations
Much of the research that I do has an international component. Specifically, I have collaborations with: 1) the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center in Frankfurt Germany as a Humboldt Fellow and 2) the Chinese University of Geosciences in Bejiing China where I collaborate with Professor Yuan Gao.

Teaching
I teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in isotope biogeochemistry, Earth system history, and the relationship between climate, surface processes and tectonics.

Professional Activities
Editor American Journal of Science; Co-Director Stanford Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Laboratory (present);Chair, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences (2004-07); Co-Director Stanford/USGS SHRIMP Ion microprobe facility (2001-04)