Benjamin David Santer | |
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit |
Awards | E. O. Lawrence Award (2002) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Climatology |
Institutions | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
Thesis | Regional validation of General Circulation Models (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Tom Wigley[1] |
Benjamin David Santer (born June 3, 1955) was a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.[2] He retired from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2021 and is now a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He also worked at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology from 1987 to 1992.[1] He specializes mainly in statistical analysis of climate data sets, and detection/attribution of climate change forcings.
Since 2012, Santer has been listed on the board of directors of the National Center for Science Education.[3]