Gabriel Filippelli

Gabriel Filippelli is an American biogeochemist and professor of Earth sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Filippelli was awarded a BS in Geology from the University of California, Davis in 1986. After this, he and his wife Sally Catlin were U.S. Peace Corps volunteers in Kiribati from 1987–1989. Filippelli was awarded a PhD in Earth Sciences in 1994 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and then began working as an assistant professor of geology. As of 2018, he is a professor of Earth sciences and Director of the Center for Urban Health at IUPUI.

Filippelli has been a member and Chair of the United States Advisory Committee for Scientific Ocean Drilling and of the Science Panning Committee for the International Ocean Discovery Program. He has also written for a variety of journals, including GeoHealth, an open source journal from the American Geophysical Union that he is Editor-in-Chief of.

Policy

Filippelli was senior science advisor for the United States State Department from 2013–2014,^[1] working largely in the area of ocean and polar science policy. In this capacity, he wrote some of the first policy related to climate change in the Antarctic, and was involved in the international effort to improve scientific cooperation through the Arctic nations, eventually leading to an international agreement on this issue^[2]

Research

He is best known for his work on various aspects of global nutrient cycling, including ocean response to nutrient inputs,^[3] terrestrial signals of nutrient and landscape development, and future projections of nutrient resources to feed humanity. His recent work has focused on environmental health,^[4] marked by contributions in multiple journals on environmental exposures to contaminants^[5][6] and the role that climate change plays in health.^[7]

Academic roles

Filippelli is a Fellow of the International Association of GeoChemistry,^[8] the winner of the Charles Bantz Fellowship for Community Engagement, the author of about 100 peer-reviewed publications, and a blogger^[9] and community activist in the areas of community-engaged research and environmental justice. In August 2017, Filippelli became the Editor in Chief of GeoHealth,^[10] the newest American Geophysical Union journal.^[11]

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