Gerald H. Haug (born 14 April 1968 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German geologic climatologist, prize winner of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and since 2007 he has a professorship at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland.[1] In 2015 he became director of the Climate Geochemistry Department and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz [2] and since March 2020, he became the new President of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[3][4]
From 1995 to 1996 Haug worked as a postdoc at GEOMAR, Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany. From 1996 to 1997 he had been a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Oceanography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,[5] United States, and became later a research assistant professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States (1997–1998). From 2000 to 2002, he worked as a senior assistant at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and habilitated in the Earth Sciences (2002).
Haug is signee of a protest note which points out the dangers arising from ignoring climate change.[6][7]
Haug, Gerald H.; Tiedemann, Ralf (1998). "Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation". Nature. 393 (6686). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 673–676. Bibcode:1998Natur.393..673H. doi:10.1038/31447. ISSN0028-0836. S2CID4421505.
Haug, Gerald H.; Sigman, Daniel M.; Tiedemann, Ralf; Pedersen, Thomas F.; Sarnthein, Michael (1999). "Onset of permanent stratification in the subarctic Pacific Ocean". Nature. 401 (6755). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 779–782. Bibcode:1999Natur.401..779H. doi:10.1038/44550. ISSN0028-0836. S2CID4413377.
Haug, Gerald H.; Hughen, Konrad A.; Sigman, Daniel M.; Peterson, Larry C.; Röhl, Ursula (17 August 2001). "Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene". Science. 293 (5533). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 1304–1308. Bibcode:2001Sci...293.1304H. doi:10.1126/science.1059725. ISSN0036-8075. PMID11509727. S2CID24591761.
with Daniel M. Sigman: The biological pump in the past. In: Henry Elderfield (Hrsg.): Treatise on Geochemistry. Volume 6: The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry. Elsevier, 2003, ISBN0-08-043744-3 (PDF)
Haug, Gerald H.; Günther, Detlef; Peterson, Larry C.; Sigman, Daniel M.; Hughen, Konrad A.; Aeschlimann, Beat (14 March 2003). "Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization". Science. 299 (5613). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 1731–1735. Bibcode:2003Sci...299.1731H. doi:10.1126/science.1080444. ISSN0036-8075. PMID12637744. S2CID128596188.