B.A., Haifa University, Israel; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Specializes in oceanography, climatology, geophysics. Senior Fellow, Center for Environmental Science and Argonne National Laboratory (2002–07); principal investigator, Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science, University of Chicago (2001–03); assistant scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1998–99). Assistant professor, University of Chicago (1999–07). Author, Geophysical Data Analysis (Princeton University Press, 2008). Faculty, Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College. At Bard since 2008.

Interests:

Research Interests: climate dynamics; climate variability; climate change; agricultural environmental science; simple population models

Teaching Interests: data analysis; global/regional/local climate change; agricultural environmental efficiency and metrics thereof

Highlights:

2009-08-26 — Lecture
Invited talk: Alignment of Personal and Planetary Health: Beyond Greenhouse Gases Alone, University College Dublin, Ireland, International Society for Environmental Epidemiology
Website: http://journals.lww.com/epidem/toc/2009/11001

2009-06-10 — Lecture
Invited Lecture: Environmental Optimization of Dietary Choices, Computational Sustainability, Cornell University, Ithaca NY

2009-04-30 — Lecture
Invited Lecture: Food and the Global Environment, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ
Website: http://www.princeton.edu/morefoodlesscarbon/

2009 — Publication
Dietary choices’ eﬀects on land use and reactive
Nitrogen discharge, Environmental Research Letters

2009 — Publication
Geophysics and nutritional science: toward a novel, uniﬁed paradigm, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 89

Contact:

Phone: 845-758-7232
Website: http://inside.bard.edu/~geshel
E-mail: geshel@bard.edu