I’m heading off to the UW Graduate Student Climate Conference bright and early tomorrow morning–provided that we make it from Cincinnati to Seattle.
I’ll be presenting a poster on the climate of the Archean Earth, 2.8 billion years ago. (This was also my master’s paper and was recently accepted with minor revisions for publication.) Despite the faint young Sun, the warm ice-free Archean could have maintained by the interaction of the biota and climate system and perhaps stabilized with a thin Titan-like organic haze.
Greenhouse Warming of the Archean Earth [PDF, 754 kB]
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October 18, 2007 at 7:18 am
Darrell Grizzle
Thanks for your recent comment at my blog! I’ve posted a link to you on my blogroll, “Cyberfriends in the Blogosphere.” I wish you the best at the Climate Conference!
October 20, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Ryan Hurd
good luck! i’m hoping you can provide a report when you get back - and perhaps keep it in laymans terms for those like me who don’t even know the names of all the clouds.
October 20, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Paul M Martin
Wow, sounds fascinating. Prehistory and astronomy are two subjects that I’ve found awe-inspiring since I was a kid.