Gerald Haug

Gerald H. Haug

Gerald H. Haug (born 14 April 1968 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German geologic climatologist, prize winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and since 2007 he has a professorship at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland.^[1] In 2015 he became director of the Climate Geochemistry Department and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz ^[2] and since March 2020, he became the new President of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.^[3][4]

Biography[]

Haug graduated in Geology at the University of Karlsruhe in 1992 and received his PhD at the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1995. From 1995 to 1996 he worked as a postdoc at GEOMAR, Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. From 1996 to 1997 he had been a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Oceanography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,^[5] United States, and became later a research assistant professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States (1997–1998). From 2000 to 2002, he worked as a senior assistant at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and habilitated in the Earth Sciences (2002).

Haug is signee of a protest note which points out the dangers arising from ignoring climate change.^[6][7]

He initiated the construction of the research sail yacht S/Y Eugen Seibold and coordinates the research.^[8]

Other activities[]

• German Future Prize, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2020)^[9]
• Academy of Sciences and Literature, Member (since 2018)
• Academia Europaea, Member (since 2008)
• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Member of the Board of Governors^[10]
• Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Member of the Board of Trustees^[11]
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board^[12]
• Werner Siemens Foundation, Member of the Advisory Council^[13]

Awards and honors[]

• 2001: Albert Maucher-Preis für Geowissenschaften der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)^[14]
• 2007: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize der DFG^[15]
• 2010: Rössler Prize^[16]

Selected publications[]

• with Ralf Tiedemann: Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation. In: Nature. Vol. 393, 1998, S. 673–676, doi:10.1038/31447 (PDF)
• with Daniel M. Sigman, Ralf Tiedemann, Thomas F. Pedersen & Michael Sarnthein: Onset of permanent stratification in the subarctic Pacific Ocean. In: Nature. Vol. 401, 1999, S. 779–782, doi:10.1038/44550 (PDF)
• together with Ralf Tiedemann, Rainer Zahn & A. Christina Ravelo: Role of Panama uplift on oceanic freshwater balance. In: Geology. Band 29, Nr. 3, 3. Januar 2001, S. 207–210, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0207:ROPUOO>2.0.CO;2 (PDF).
• with Konrad A. Hughen, Daniel M. Sigman, Larry C. Peterson & Ursula Röhl: Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene. In: Science. Vol. 299, No. 5533, 2001, S. 1304–1308, doi:10.1126/science.1059725 (PDF)
• with Daniel M. Sigman: The biological pump in the past. In: Henry Elderfield (Hrsg.): Treatise on Geochemistry. Volume 6: The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry. Elsevier, 2003, ISBN 0-08-043744-3 (PDF)
• with Detlef Günther, Larry C. Peterson, Daniel M. Sigman, Konrad A. Hughen & Beat Aeschlimann: Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization. In: Science. Vol. 299, No. 5613, 2003, S. 1731–1735, doi:10.1126/science.1080444 (PDF)
• with Andrey Ganopolski, Daniel M. Sigman, Antoni Rosell-Mele, George E. A. Swann, Ralf Tiedemann, Samuel L. Jaccard, Jörg Bollmann, Mark A. Maslin, Melanie J. Leng & Geoffrey Eglinton: North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago. In: Nature. Vol. 433, 2005, S. 821–825, doi:10.1038/nature03332 (PDF)

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