Dr. Michael Kaplan

Biography

Michael Kaplan is a Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of the Columbia Climate School. He earned his B.A. summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1992, an M.Sc. from the University of Maine-Orono, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He has held various positions, including Research Associate in Boulder, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Royal Society London Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, before joining the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in 2006. His research focuses on paleo-glaciology, paleoclimate, geochronology, geomorphology, and geochemistry, with particular emphasis on mountain glaciers, ice sheets, and the landscapes they have shaped in the past. He also studies cosmic ray exposure dating and past climates with a keen interest in Antarctica and South America.

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