Benjamin D. Santer
American climate researcher
Benjamin David Santer (born June 3, 1955) is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Previously, he was a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit. He retired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2021. He also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology from 1987 to 1992. He specializes mainly in statistical analysis of climate data sets, and detection/attribution of climate change forcings.
Since 2012, Santer has been listed on the board of directors of the National Center for Science Education.
Honors
Santer received a B.Sc. in environmental sciences and a 1987 Ph.D. in climatology from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia.
In 1998 Santer was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for research supporting the finding that human activity contributes to global warming. He has also received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and a Distinguished Scientist Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Energy and the Norbert Gerbier/MUMM award from the World Meteorological Organization.
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