Peter Doran
Peter T. Doran is an American Earth scientist who is Professor of Geology and Geophysics and John Franks Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University. Prior to 2015, he was faculty in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Doran specializes in polar regions, especially Antarctic climate and ecosystems. Doran was the lead author of a research paper about Antarctic temperatures that was published in the journal ''Nature'' in January 2002. Because he and his colleagues found that some parts of Antarctica had cooled between 1964 and 2000, his paper has been frequently cited by opponents of the global warming theory, such as Ann Coulter and Michael Crichton. In an opinion piece in the July 27, 2006 ''New York Times'', Doran characterized this as a "misinterpretation" and stated, "I have never thought such a thing ... I would like to remove my name from the list of scientists who dispute global warming." (The temporary phenomenon is related to the "hole" in the ozone. As the "hole heals" the Antarctic will dramatically warm quickly.)
Doran and his graduate student Maggie Kendall Zimmerman also published [https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2009EO030002 a paper] in the January 27, 2009 issue of ''Eos'' showing that active climate researchers almost unanimously agree (97.4%) that humans have had a significant impact on the Earth's climate. This was the first of three different studies by three different groups to establish this scientific consensus figure of 97 to 98% agreement, the others being Anderegg et al. (2010) and Cook et al. (2013).
Doran also applies his expertise in extreme polar environments to planetary science and has led and been a member of several NASA-funded projects using polar regions as analogs for Mars and icy/ocean worlds. He was nominated by former Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmidt to be a member of the Planetary Protection Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council in 2008 and served until 2017. In 2018 he was appointed to represent the U.S. as a member of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) [https://cosparhq.cnes.fr/scientific-structure/panels/panel-on-planetary-protection-ppp/ Panel on Planetary Protection]. In 2022 he was made Vice Chair of the Panel.
Both an Antarctic stream and glacier were named for Doran by the U.S. Geological Survey to commemorate his many significant research contributions conducted on the continent. Doran was elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 2018. Provided by Wikipedia
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8by Eoin Feeney, Deborah Wallace, Aoife Cotter, Willard Tinago, Cormac McCarthy, David Keane, Rabia Hussain, Elena Alvarez Barco, Peter Doran, Patrick MallonGet full text
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9by David Cosgrave, Marie Galligan, Era Soukhin, Victoria McMullan, Siobhan McGuinness, Anand Puttappa, Niamh Conlon, John Boylan, Rabia Hussain, Peter Doran, Alistair NicholGet full text
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10by Eleanor Coleman, Lydia O’Sullivan, Rachel Crowley, Moira Hanbidge, Seán Driver, Thilo Kroll, Aoife Kelly, Alistair Nichol, Orlaith McCarthy, Prasanth Sukumar, Peter DoranGet full text
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11by Aoife Cotter, Deborah Wallace, Cormac McCarthy, Eoin Feeney, Lorraine O’Neill, John Stack, Geraldine McCarthy, Rabia Hussain, Elena Alvarez Barco, Peter Doran, Patrick MallonGet full text
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12by Peter Doran, Marie Galligan, Ronan Ryan, Austin Duffy, Tim Greten, Hailey Carroll, Umair Aleem, Pooja Varghese, Michèle Bourke, Katherine Hoey, Stephen Stewart, Cliona O’Farrelly, Diarmaid Houlihan, Raymond McDermott
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13by Cathal Seoighe, Adrian P. Bracken, Patrick Buckley, Peter Doran, Robert Green, Sandra Healy, David Kavanagh, Elaine Kenny, Mark Lawler, Maeve Lowery, Derek Morris, Darrin Morrissey, James J. O'Byrne, Denis Shields, Owen Smith, Charles A. Steward, Brian Sweeney, Walter KolchGet full text
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14by John Travers, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Dermot Power, Peter Doran, John Langan, Fergal MacNamara, Darren McCormack, Christopher McDermott, Jude McEntire, Joanne McKiernan, Sebastian Vencken, Andrew W. Murphy, Patrick J. Murphy, Éidin Ní Shé, Diarmuid O'Shea, Marie-Therese CooneyGet full text
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15by Hannah Fleming, Simon M. Clifford, Aoife Haughey, Roisin MacDermott, Niall McVeigh, Gerard M. Healy, Lisa Lavelle, Suhny Abbara, David J. Murphy, Aurelie Fabre, Edward McKone, Cormac McCarthy, Marcus Butler, Peter Doran, David A. Lynch, Michael P. Keane, Jonathan D. DoddGet full text
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16by Brendan O'Kelly, Ronan McLaughlin, Roseann O'Doherty, Hailey Carroll, Roisin Murray, Rachel Dilworth, Laura Corkery, Aoife G. Cotter, Aoife G. Cotter, Aoife G. Cotter, Tara McGinty, Tara McGinty, Tara McGinty, Eavan G. Muldoon, Walter Cullen, Gordana Avramovic, Gerard Sheehan, Denise Sadlier, Michaela Higgins, Peter O'Gorman, Peter Doran, Rosanna Inzitari, Sinead Holden, Yvonne O'Meara, Sean Ennis, John S. Lambert, John S. LambertGet full text
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