"He is spectacularly brilliant," Anderson added. "He integrates many fields together."
Schrag received a Ph.D. in geochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley seven years ago. After spending three years at Princeton, he joined Harvard's Earth and Planetary Sciences department in 1997.
Schrag's work focuses on the history of climate, from studies of drastic changes millions of years ago to global warming and its effects today.
An El Nio expert, Schrag tracks its ongoing changes and also reconstructs the pattern of El Nios in the last 125,000 years.
Schrag and his colleagues have also studied conditions during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago, hoping to discover the ocean's temperature during the period.
And, in his spare time, Schrag is also working on a theory that the earth was nearly encased in ice for a period 700 million years ago.
Schrag said while the money and the award are wonderful, the recognition that his field of study is receiving is even more important.
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