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Louis A. Derry



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Senior Scientist Louis A. Derry, Ph.D., is an associate professor of geological sciences in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University, and the director of the Cornell IGERT Program in Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity (BEB), an interdisciplinary NSF funded graduate training program. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in geochemistry and a B.A. in geology from Colorado College. He is active in the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the Nepal Geological Society, the American Chemical Society, and many other organizations.

Dr. Derry’s concentration is in the “processes and consequences of biogeochemical interactions between the oceans, atmosphere, and land surface; modern and ancient carbon cycle, Earth’s current processes linked to global change as well as the history of the Earth’s surface environment and its link to the evolution of life through time.” http://www.eas.cornell.edu/cals/eas/people/profile.cfm?netId=lad9

He established The Cornell Earth and Environmental Science Program (Cornell EES Program), an undergraduate Earth System Science field study program based on Hawai‘i Island that is offered in collaboration with The Kohala Center.

Dr. Derry is widely published. His work has appeared in Nature and many other scientific journals and publications. While Dr. Derry’s contributions to the scientific community is broad, his work has had an even farther reach—into the general public—as he has been interviewed by National Public Radio, as well as served as a consultant to the scientific series NOVA which appears on PBS.