ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Brad Rosenheim is a Principal Investigator for SALSA, and is an Associate Professor in the College of Marine Sciences at the University of South Florida. However, he is no stranger to cold places: he’s been to Antarctica before, grew up in New Jersey, and went to the University of Vermont as an undergraduate.
Choosing Science as a Career
Brad chose his course of study due to skepticism of the State of the World 1996, which was required reading his freshman year of college. Instead, he wanted to be behind testing hypotheses about global change, overconsumption, and the carrying capacity of the Earth, rather than reading the numbers and forecasts that he’d seen in State of the World. After earning his B.S. in Environmental Science in 1999, he went on to a Ph.D. program at the University of Miami in Marine Geology and Geophysics. He studied isotopic and chemical records of marine climate change recorded in the skeletons of long-lived sclerosponges in the Caribbean Sea.