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Wallace Smith Broecker

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Broecker Device Startup Gaining Traction

 

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Wallace Smith Broecker, Who Made ‘Global Warming’ A Household Term, Passes Away At 87

 

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A Conversation With My Grandfather, Wallace Broecker

 

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Godfather of Global Warming-Wallace Smith Broecker

 

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Wallace Broecker Part 1 - NJN News Science & Technology Report

Wallace Smith Broecker is the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and a sustainability fellow at Arizona State University. He developed the idea of a global "conveyor belt" linking the circulation of the global ocean and made major contributions to the science of the carbon cycle and the use of chemical tracers and isotope dating in oceanography. Broecker has received the Crafoord Prize and the Vetlesen Prize.
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