David S. Goldberg, Ph.D.

David Goldberg holds the inaugural chair as the Jerome M. Paros Lamont Research Professor in Climate Science Research and Carbon Management at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He also currently serves as Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy and as Deputy Director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, two research-oriented institutes within the Columbia Climate School. He has acted as Principal Investigator on many collaborative research projects, including current multi-national carbon management studies, and been directly involved with numerous scientific drilling programs. His research interests focus on the integration of different technologies and cross-disciplinary approaches, including carbon mineralization, direct air capture, and carbon monitoring for achievable climate solutions. Most recently, he launched the Decarbonization Monitoring and Instrumentation (DMI) Initiative at Lamont-Doherty, which aims to design, build, and deploy sensor systems to quantify carbon stocks and fluxes for various engineered and natural climate solutions.

Goldberg received his undergraduate and MS degrees in earth and planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his doctorate in geophysics and an MBA from Columbia University. He conducted post-doctoral studies at the Institute Français du Petrole in France and has been at Lamont-Doherty since 1985. Goldberg continues to advise graduate and post-graduate research in carbon management, scientific drilling, and related topics