Gidon Eshel

Professor Gidon Eshel is an oceanography, climatology, and geophysics academic best known for his quantification of the "geophysical consequences of agriculture and diet". As of 2017, he is research professor at Bard College in New York.

Career

He studied physics and earth sciences at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, before getting a master of arts (MA) degree, M.Phil, and a Ph.D on mathematical physics at Columbia University. His Ph.D thesis at Columbia was titled Coupling of deep water formation and the general circulation : a case study of the Red Sea.[1] Eshel was then a postdoctoral NOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Fellow at the Harvard Department for Earth & Planetary Physics, a Staff Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and also a faculty member of department of geophysics at the University of Chicago.[2]. Eshel also advises Bluefield Technologies on livestock methane emissions.[3]

Research

Recent examples of his work compare several livestock and land and water use, fertiliser-based water pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions per factor unit of product. His highest cited paper is "Forecasting Zimbabwean maize yield using eastern equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature" at 393 times, according to Google Scholar.[4]

Publications

Books

Films

Articles (sample)
  • Land, irrigation water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States. PNAS Vol. 111, No. 33 (August 19, 2014), pp. 11996-12001 (with Alon Shepon, Tamar Makov and Ron Milo)
  • Diet, Energy, and Global Warming. Earth Interactions. 2005. 10: 1- 17. (with Pamela A. Martin)
  • Geophysics and nutritional science: toward a novel, unified paradigm. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 89, no. 5, (2009): 1710S. (with Pamela A. Martin)
  • Forecasting Zimbabwean maize yield using eastern equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature. Nature 370, 204–205, 21 July 1994 (with Mark Cane and R.W. Buckland)

References
  1. "Thesis: Gidon Eshel". WorldCat. Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  2. "Gidon Eshel, Research Professor". Bard Faculty. Bard College. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  3. "Bluefield Technologies". bluefield.co. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  4. "Gidon Eshel". scholar.google.com. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
  5. "Author: Gidon Eshel". WorldCat. Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  6. Carrington, Damian (16 May 2011). "Meat is murder? More like suicide, argues Planeat film". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  7. "Gidon Eshel Ph.D". Before the Flood. National Geographic. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
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