David Keith to lead Climate Systems Engineering at University of Chicago.
David Keith, a renowned scientist, has joined the University of Chicago to lead a new Climate Systems Engineering initiative, which will explore multiple strategies to reflect sunlight away from Earth, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and protect glaciers. The initiative will require novel materials, high-powered computing, and trailblazing chemical and engineering strategies. Keith plans to partner with researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and supercomputing facilities. The aim of the initiative is to support new faculty with diverse expertise as well as current scholars at UChicago and beyond who are working to understand the interwoven technical and social challenges posed by solar geoengineering and carbon removal.