He later played a major role in the development of the Adventist educational structure beginning in 1874 with the formation of Battle Creek College (now Andrews University). In 1855, he relocated the fledgling center of the movement to Battle Creek, Michigan, and in 1863 played a pivotal role in the formal organization of the denomination. In 1849, he started the first Sabbatarian Adventist periodical entitled The Present Truth (now the Adventist Review).

Robert L.James Springer White, also known as Elder White, was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and husband of Ellen G.

Highly Cited Researcher (2016-2019), Web of Science Group, 2019.

Such large changes in the uptake of CO 2 by plants is a key piece in the puzzle we must solve to formulate workable policy on CO 2 levels and climate change.

My research in isotopes in the carbon cycle has also helped to show that land plants are capable of removing large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, amounts that equal our input of CO 2 from fossil fuel burning on short time scales. Shifts of more than 10˚C in mean temperature in less than a human lifetime are common in the paleoclimate record, and serve as a warning that adaptation to future climate changes may not be easy. Starting in the late 1980s, my ice core research has helped to show that large climate changes tend to occur in the natural system as abrupt and rapid shifts in mode probably driven by internal adjustments in the Earth climate system, rather than slow and gradual adjustments to changing external conditions, such as the amount of energy received from the sun. I am also an affiliate of NOAA and work closely with the Carbon Cycle Group there. I have been a member of several deep ice coring projects in Greenland (GISP2, NorthGRIP, and NEEM) and Antarctica (Siple Dome and Inland WAIS).

My specific areas of research include modeling the global carbon cycle using isotope ratios in atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane, development of techniques for measuring isotope ratios in atmospheric gases, reconstructions of paleo-environmental conditions using isotopes in ice cores, reconstructions of past environments from isotopes in organic materials, and tracing of ground water flow and recharge. I operate and maintain a laboratory for the analysis of stable isotope ratios of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur. My research interests are broad, but all revolve around the use of environmental stable isotope ratios. Global scale climate and environmental dynamics carbon dioxide concentrations and climate from stable hydrogen isotopes, peats and other organics climate from deuterium excess and hydrogen isotopes in ice cores isotopes in general circulation models modern carbon cycle dynamics via isotopes of carbon dioxide and methane. Global change, paleoclimate dynamics, biogeochemistry.

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