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Michael Oppenheimer

Research

My current research interests are organized around eight topic areas:

  1.  What constitutes dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system? The behavior of Earth's ice sheets in the present and in earlier climates
    Current Collaborators: Bob Kopp (link), Chris Little
    Recent Articles: Oppenheimer/Alley: 04; 05.
  2. Decision making under Uncertainty: science, science assessment, model error, and global change
    Current Collaborators: Mort Webster, Brian O'Neill, Shardul Agrawala
    Recent Articles: Oppenheimer et al: Negative Learning
  3. Learning from science history: the limitations of physical models
    Current collaborators: Naomi Oreskes, Keynyn Brysse, Jennifer O'Reilly
    Recent Articles: Crutzen/Oppenheimer; Negative Learning.
  4. Modeling the nitrogen cycle
    Current Collaborators: Stefan Gerber, Lars Hedin, Stephen Pacala, Elena Shevliakova
    Recent Articles: Donner/Kucharik/Oppenheimer
  5. Climate Change and Ecosystems: Invasive Species, Coral Reefs
    Collaborators: Bethany Bradley, David Wilcove
    Recent articles: Donner (1) (2)
  6. Climate Change and South Africa: moving people, imperiled species
    Current Collaborators: David Wilcove, Will, Turner, Lyndon Despard Estes
  7. Climate Change and Human Migration: modeling futures patterns
    Current Collaborators: Alan Krueger, Shuaizhang Feng
  8. Emissions trading: designing the system
    Collaborators: Michael Gillenwater, Jeff Domanski
    Recent Articles: Yang/Oppenheimer; Charmides/Oppenheimer

Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University

Office: 448 Robertson Hall
Woodrow Wilson School,
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013 

Phone: 609-258-2338
Fax: 609-258-6082

E-mail: omichael@princeton.edu



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