Daniel Sigman is an American geoscientist, and the Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at

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. Sigman received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 2009.

Life

He graduated from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is conside ...

with a B.S. in 1991, and from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of th ...

/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Joint Program in Oceanography, with a Ph.D. in 1997. He studies the global cycles of biologically active elements, in particular, nitrogen and carbon, and he is active in the development of analytical techniques for studying nitrogen in the environment. He also investigates the history of these cycles in order to understand the causes of past changes in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the role of this greenhouse gas in the waxing and waning of ice ages, and the ocean’s response to climate change. He is now married and is a father of two.

Awards

*2012

Science Innovation Award The Science Innovation Award is an award bestowed annually by the European Association of Geochemistry on a scientist who has made "a particularly important and innovative breakthrough in geochemistry", and consists of a medal and certificate. The s ...

Heinz A. Lowenstam medal co-recipient with Katherine Freeman for work in biogeochemistry *2009

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

*2009 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists *2004 Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation *2004 James B. Macelwane Medal

References

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