Petra Dekens

Title: Associate Professor

Institution:
 San Francisco State University

Degree: 
PhD, Ocean Sciences

S
pecialty: The mechanisms which sustained a warm climate in the early Pliocene, the most recent period of time when Earth’s temperatures were warmer than they are today for a sustained period of time.

Website:
http://tornado.sfsu.edu/Faculty/regfaculty.html#Anchor-Petra-47857

Petra is a signatory of the Tyndall Petition, a statement backed by climate experts acknowledging the significant risks of climate change and the urgent need for emission reductions.

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