Peter Huybers
Department Chair, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
We study how and why climate changes and the implications for human wellbeing.
Peter’s group focuses on the causes and effects of climate change. A primary focus is on how climate change influences water and agriculture, and other topics include analyzing changes in Earth’s climate over geological timescales, calibrating the instrumental record of climate change, and exploring how extreme events are changing and their implications for human wellbeing.
Peter is the chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and a Professor Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received a B.S. in physics from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a Ph.D. in climate physics from MIT, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In 2012, Peter was a senior climate advisor in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. He is the recipient of the Alpha Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching, AGU’s James B. Macelwane Medal, and a MacArthur Grant.
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