Profile of Dr. Kevin Gurney
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Agronomy
550 Stadium Mall Drive
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051
Phone: (765) 494-5982
kgurney@purdue.edu
Current Position: Associate Professor, Agronomy, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Education: Ph.D., Ecology, Colorado State University, 2004
Dr. Gurney is an atmospheric scientist and ecologist working in the broad arena of global change. In particular, he is interested in quantifying and characterizing the global carbon cycle, with emphasis on the exchange of 1) CO2 with the terrestrial biosphere and 2) CO2 from fossil fuels with the atmosphere, as well as the relationship between interannual variations in these exchanges and variations in climate. The future evolution and mechanistic underpinnings of the global carbon cycle are fundamental to climate change research. Dr. Gurney has published in a variety of leading journals, and he co-authored the book, Mending the Ozone Hole, which was featured on CNN and in the New York Times and Washington Post, and on CNN. He is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Dr. Gurney also holds an Masters in Public Policy from the University of California Berkeley, and has continued work in climate change policy through research on those aspects of the Kyoto Protocol that relate to the carbon cycle with particular recent emphasis on deforestation policy.
