Mark Battle

Department of Physics and Astronomy
Bowdoin College
8800 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011-8488
Telephone: (207) 725-3410
Fax: (207) 725-3638
email: mbattle@bowdoin.edu

Photo from The Daily Post (Mike Kolster). Click on the image for a larger view

Would you take a physics class from this guy?

I'm quite willing to flaunt photos of my son and daughter.

I also find www.realclimate.org a very valuable resource.

Here's a very graphic video of CO2 emissions that caught my fancy (you should turn on your audio when viewing):

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Note: Although I have linked to this video, I take no position on the activities of the organization that produced it.

Faculty Appointment:

Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bowdoin College 2006 - present
Details: curriculum vitae.

Education:

PhD in Physics, University of Rochester, 1994. Major Professor: Edward H. Thordike
Details: curriculum vitae.

Research Interests:

I study atmospheric composition and how it changes. In particular, I work on understanding the carbon cycle in the context of global warming and climate change. I'm an experimentalist, so I do lab and field work. Curious? Learn more.

Publications:

Most recently:

Atmospheric potential oxygen: New observations and their implications for some atmospheric and oceanic models, M. Battle; Fletcher, S. M.; Bender, M. L.; Keeling, R. F.; Manning, A. C.; Gruber, N.; Tans, P. P.; Hendricks, M. B.; Ho, D. T.; Simonds, C.; Mika, R.; Paplawsky, B. Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles Vol 20, GB1010, 10.1029/2005GB002534, 2006

For other publications and presentations (with links), check out my publication list.

Courses Taught and Projects Supervised:

I'm presently teaching Intro Physics I (phys103) and Atmospheric Physics (phys256). See my course/advisee list for other courses I have recently taught.

This site was last updatAugust 29, 2007->->