Ben Santer Technical Talk on Climate

On November 12, 2024, pioneering climate scientist Dr. Benjamin Santer came to Rutgers for a more technical presentation ahead of his Plenary Address the next day at the Annual Climate Symposium. 

Ben is an atmospheric scientist recently retired from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He is now a Fowler Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and a Visiting Researcher at UCLA’s Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering. He studies natural and human “fingerprints” in observed climate records. His early research contributed to the historic 1995 conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: “the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate”. He served as lead author of a key chapter of that report. Since 1995, Ben has identified human fingerprints in atmospheric temperature and water vapor, ocean heat content, sea surface temperature in hurricane formation regions, and many other climate variables.

This talk was co-sponsored by the Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute and the Rutgers University Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science.