Climate Change and Life

Dr. Gabriel Filippelli is a Chancellor’s Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute. Filippelli is a Biogeochemist with broad training in climate change in marine and terrestrial systems. Filippelli has published broadly, including publications in Science, Nature, and Geology as well as in specialty journals and in popular press. He has personally directed over $9M of research funding over his career. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the journal GeoHealth, published by the American Geophysical Union. Filippelli is a Fellow of the International Association of Geochemistry, has been a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Newcastle (Australia), and a National Academy of Sciences Jefferson Fellow, where he served as a Senior Science Advisor for the State Department, with a policy portfolio including Antarctic climate change.

• I. Earth over the past 4.5 billion years—a brief historyII. Climate drivers on EarthIII. Early Earth as a cradle for lifeIV. Oxygen accumulation and the first major life-climate interactionsV. The not-so-boring billionVI. Snowball Earth and the most extreme climate states that the Earth has experiencedVII. Emergence of land plants and the formation of the Earth’s Critical ZoneVIII. Massive extinction drivers and climate impactsIX. From Greenhouse to Ice-House: the co-evolution of life and climate through the CenozoicX. Climate and Humans