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Education

• Ph. D. (geophysics), 1996, Columbia University
• M.Phil. (geophysics), 1994, Columbia University
• M.A. (geophysics), 1993, 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

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

Other Fellowships

• PopTech Science Fellowship, August 2010--July 2012

Professional Experience

• Bard Research Prof., Bard College, 2007-
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geophysics, 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, Dept. of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., 1998-1999
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1996-1998
• Research Assistant, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, 1991-1996
• Teaching Assistant, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Fall 1993

Selected Undergraduate Honors Theses Supervised

• Kylie Collins, Organic vs. Conventional Land, Water and Agrochemical Efficiency, Env. Std., Spring '10, Bard
• Christopher (Jun) Harada} A Greenhouse Gas Inventory of a Concentrated \\\hspace*{8mm}Solar Power Trough System, Env. Std., Spring '10, Bard
• Nicholas Heavens (Geophysical Sciences, Chicago): The effects of surrounding deserts on the marine boundary layer: A case study of the Red Sea
• Joe Bernstein (Mathematics and Physics, Chicago): Non-normal perturbation growth in a 1-layer QG Ocean Gyre Sigma Xi Best Undergraduate Student Paper
• Grace Lee (Geophysical Sciences, Chicago): Predictability of West Coast Winter Rainfall
• Everest Ong (Geophysical Sciences, Chicago): North Atlantic SST Autocorrelation

Graduate Students Committees

Served on 8 Chicago Ph.D. thesis committees for students in Ecology and Evolution, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Glaciology and Paleontology

Outreach

• Invited Talk: Short Term (Non-Asymptotic) Linear Stability of Ecosystems: The Role of Non-Self-Adjointness in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Agricultural Systems, The Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society Joint Mathematics Meeting, Boston, January 7th, MAA Invited Paper Session on Climate Change and Sustainability
• Invited Talk: Agricultural and Food Sustainability mini-course at UC Berkley curated by Michael Pollan and Alice Waters, Nov. 8th 2011, on the occasion of Chez Panisse's 40th Anniversary, sponsored by Alice Waters (see here)
• Featured extensively in the documentary Planeat (see also here)
• Invited panelist, Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, Washington, DC, March 24th, 2011
• Invited speaker/panelist, NYU's Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship, The Food Network: How Economics, Sustainability and Safety Intersect to Influence the Way We Eat, New York City, March 23rd, 2011
• Invited talk, Environmental Optimization of Human Diets: Application of Linear Programming to Food Choices and the US Farm Bill, CompSust10: 2nd International Conference on Computational Sustainability, June 28-30, 2010 MIT
• Guest columnist, Reuters, April 2010
• Guest commentator on COP15 conference, Reuters, December 2009 (see also here)
• Invited talk, Feeding a Hot and Hungry Planet, April 29-May 1st 2009, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton
• Invited talk, CompSust09: 1st International Conference on Computational Sustainability, June 8-11, 2009, Cornell
• Invited talk, Food, Fuel and the Future of Farming, July 24-25 2008, Vermont Law School
• Interview, The Current, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, May 22nd 2007
• Invited Speaker, Food, Ethics and the Environment, Princeton, November 16-17,2006
• Plenary 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
• Invited 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

• Intro. Environmental Science
• Applied Numerical Methods
• Partial Differential Equations
• 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
• Geophysics of Food Production
• Field Courses (co-teaching):
• Hawaii
• San Salvador Island
• Hawthorne Valley Farm

Publications

In Preparation

• Eshel, G., A novel greenhouse design: A numerical and observational study of thermodynamic performance.
• Eshel, G., A. Shepon, T. Israeli and R. Milo: Partitioning Overall Environmental Costs of United States' Livestock Among Individual Animal Categories, Environmental Science and Technology, to be submitted in early July '12.
• Eshel, G., A. Scott, O. Romeo, P. Rao and A. Ma: Contributions of multicropping to agroecosystems resilience under stochastic excitation by grazers, J. Math. Bio., to be submitted late July '12.
• Eshel, G., A. Shepon, T. Israeli and R. Milo, 2012: Environmental costs of the animal-based portion of the United States' diet: A Multidimensional, item-specific estimate, Science, to be submitted early August '12.
• Eshel, G., 2012: On the non-radiative origins of recent New England climate change, J. Clim., to be submitted late August '12.

Published or in Review

• Shepon A., G. Eshel and R. Milo, 2012: EcoTime - An intuitive quantitative sustainability indicator utilizing a time metric, Ecological Indicators, in press.
• Collins, K. and Eshel, G., 2012: Greenhouse gas inventory of Hudson Valley organic tomato production, Environmental Science and Technology, submitted.
• Book: Eshel, G., 2011: Geophysical Data Analysis, Princeton University Press, December 2011, ISBN: 9780691128917.
• Eshel, G., 2010: A Geophysical Foundation for Alternative Farm Policy, Environmental Science and Technology, 44(10), 3651-3655 (the issue's Cover Feature Article, highlighted in a perspective piece by Chief Editor Gentleman's commentary entitled Verdant Models).
• Eshel, G., P. A. Martin and E. E. Bowen, 2010: Land Use and Reactive Nitrogen Discharge: Effects of Dietary Choices, Earth Interactions, 14, paper 21, 1-15.
• Eshel, G. and P. A. Martin, 2009: Geophysics and nutritional science: Toward a novel, unified, paradigm. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 89, 1710S-1716S.
• Hancock, M. A., D. Witonsky, A. Gordon, G. Eshel, J. K. Pritchard, G. Coop and A. Di Rienzo, 2007: Adaptations to Climate in Candidate Genes for Common Metabolic Disorders, PLoS Genetics, 4, doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0040032.
• Eshel, G. and N. Heavens, 2007: Climatological evaporation seasonality in the northern Red Sea, Paleoceanography, 22, PA4201.
• Mogultay, I., T. F. DuPont and G. Eshel, 2007: Dimension reduction applied to a model of sea breezes, Univ. of Chicago Dept. of Applied Math. Technical Papper TR-2007-06, available here.
• Punyasena, S. W., G. Eshel and J. C. McElwain, 2007: The influence of climate on the spatial patterning of Neotropical plant families, J. Biogeography, 35(1), 117-130.
• Adkins, J., P. deMenocal, and G. Eshel, 2006: The ``African humid period'' and the record of marine upwelling from excess ²³⁰Th in Ocean Drilling Program Hole 658C. Paleoceanography, 21, PA4203, doi: 10.1029/2005PA001200.
• Fehrenbacher, J. S., P. A. Martin and G. Eshel, 2006: Glacial deep water carbonate chemistry inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca: A case study from the Western Tropical Atlantic. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 7, Q09P16, doi:10.1029/2005GC001156.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.