B. B. Cael is an interdisciplinary climate and ocean scientist. Cael’s research combines statistics-driven data analysis with idealized theoretical models to address basic questions about Earth’s carbon cycle and climate on global scales. Cael’s research interests include climate mitigation, climate sensitivity, climatic extremes, ocean biogeochemistry, plankton ecology, remote sensing, ocean circulation, global limnology, and paleoclimate. Before becoming a faculty member at the University of Chicago, Cael completed a PhD in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Joint Program in Oceanography, was a Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, and was a Principal Scientist at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. At the Climate Systems Engineering initiative, and the Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Cael will research both carbon dioxide removal and solar geoengineering, alongside fundamental questions about Earth’s climate and carbon cycle.
