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:

Post-coring entrapment of modern air in some shallow ice cores collected near the firn-ice transition: evidence from CFC-12 measurements in Antarctic firn air and ice cores, M. Aydin; Montzka, S.A.; Battle, M.O.; Williams, M.B.; DeBruyn, W.J.; Butler, J.H.; Verhulst, K.R.; Tatum, C.; Gun, B.K.; Plotkin, D.A.; Hall, B.D.; Saltzman, E.S. Atmos. Chem. Phys., Vol. 10, Issue 11, 5135-5144, DOI 10.5194/acp-10-5135-2010, 2010

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

Courses Taught and Projects Supervised:

I'm presently on sabbatical, in residence at the University of Bern's Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, working primarily with Markus Leuenberger. See my course/advisee list for other courses I have recently taught.

This site was last updatSeptember 6, 2010->