Speakers Rachel Pike: Atmospheric chemist
Rachel Pike studies climate change at the molecular level -- tracking how emissions from biofuel crops react with the air to shape weather trends globally.
Why you should listen to her:
Rachel Pike knows the intricacies of climate research -- the laborious, exacting and subtle techniques behind findings that end up in IPCC reports and, later, news headlines.
As a Ph.D candidate at Cambridge, Pike's research on isoprene, a major biofuel crop emission, and other molecules has taken her soaring over rainforest canopies in multi-ton labs-on-wings, into the cooled-down sub-levels of supercomputer grids, and into massive experimental atmospheric chambers. Her exhaustive work represents a major step toward a complete picture of how human activity affects the global ecosystem.
"We study incredibly narrow topics -- things as narrow as a few processes or a few molecules."Rachel Pike
Quotes by Rachel Pike
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“Despite its very small weight, enough [isoprene] is emitted into the atmosphere every year to equal the weight of all the people on the planet.”
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Rachel Pike: The science behind a climate headline
- 04:13 Posted: Nov 2009
Rachel Pike on the Web
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- TEDGlobal 2009