- Planetary Sciences
- NASA Ames Research Center
- MS 245-3
- Moffett Field
- CA 94035
- US
- ++1 650-604-5514
Colin's homepage
News, Feb 2010 Final version of The eons of Chaos and Hades published as the inaugural article in the new open access journal Solid Earth
News, Jan 2010: The eons of Chaos and Hades featured in The Economist
News, Dec, 2009: Nitrogen-enhanced greenhouse warming on early published in Nature Geoscience.
My main research focus is on the coupled evolution of climate, geochemistry and life on the Early Earth. The motivation of this research is understanding how the Earth evolved to it present state as the habitat for intelligent life, how life itself has influenced this evolution and the implications of this for planetary habitability elsewhere in universe. I have also conducted research evaluating the effectiveness of radiative transfer codes used for climate change prediction and been involved in observational physical oceanography and in work evaluating the effectiveness of proposed planetary geoengineering.
I am presently a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA Ames Research Center with Kevin Zahnle. I am also associated with the NASA Ames Team of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
I completed my PhD following a studentship in the Earth System Modelling Group in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. This was supervised by Prof. Tim Lenton and Prof. Andy Watson FRS.
Contact me:
colin dot goldblatt at nasa dot gov
tel. ++1 650–604-5514