Methane in the Climate System: Mapping Emissions from Satellites

Date
Apr 24, 2023, 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
300 Wallace Hall
live stream on media central

Speaker

Daniel Jacob
Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering Faculty Associate, Harvard University Center for the Environment Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
Sponsors
  • Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment
  • High Meadows Environmental Institute
  • Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Audience
In-person attendance for Princeton University ID holders and invited guests; Livestream open to the public on MediaCentral.
Daniel Jacob

Daniel Jacob is the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Harvard University.  He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Caltech. His research covers a wide range of topics in atmospheric chemistry, from air quality to climate change. He has led the development of the GEOS-Chem global 3-D model of atmospheric composition, has served as Mission Scientist on eight NASA aircraft missions around the world and is a member of several satellite Science Teams. He is the #1 environmental scientist in the world according to research.com (H-index of 176 for 2014-2021 publications). Jacob has trained over 100 Ph.D. students and postdocs over the course of his career.