Paul Wennberg is an atmospheric scientist at Caltech. His research focuses on measurements of atmospheric trace gases towards accurately describing the exchange of carbon dioxide and other gases between the atmosphere and the land and ocean. He is a founding member of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory

Orbiting Carbon Observatory

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory is a NASA satellite mission intended to provide global space-based observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide . The original spacecraft was lost in a launch failure on February 24, 2009, when the payload fairing of the Taurus rocket which was carrying it failed to...

 and leads the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON)

He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation

MacArthur Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978...

grant in 2002.