Gidon Eshel


Professor Gidon Eshel is an oceanography, climatology, and geophysics academic best known for his quantification of the "geophysical consequences of agriculture and diet". As of 2017, he is research professor at Bard College in New York.

Career

He studied physics and earth sciences at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, before getting a master of arts degree, M.Phil, and a Ph.D on mathematical physics at Columbia University. His Ph.D thesis at Columbia was titled Coupling of deep water formation and the general circulation : a case study of the Red Sea. Eshel was then a postdoctoral NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellow at the Harvard , a Staff Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and also a faculty member of department of geophysics at the University of Chicago.. Eshel also advises Bluefield Technologies on livestock methane emissions.

Research

Recent examples of his work compare several livestock and land and water use, fertiliser-based water pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions per factor unit of product. His highest cited paper is "Forecasting Zimbabwean maize yield using eastern equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature" at 393 times, according to Google Scholar.

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