Rate My Professor Peter Raymond

Peter Raymond is the Oastler Professor of Biogeochemistry at Yale School of the Environment, with an appointment in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, positioning him within Yale's Geoscience faculty. He earned a B.S. from Marist College and a Ph.D. in Marine Science from the College of William and Mary in 1999. After completing postdoctoral research at the Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1999 to 2002, he joined the Yale School of the Environment in 2002 on the tenure track, advancing to full professor in 2010. In addition to his professorship, he holds key administrative roles including Senior Associate Dean of Research, Director of the Yale Analytical and Stable Isotope Center, Director of Doctoral Studies, Chair of the Climate Change Learning Community, and Head of the YSE Climate Initiative. He also serves as Co-Director of the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture and was past Editor-in-Chief of the American Geophysical Union’s journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles. Raymond has advised 13 postdoctoral associates, 19 research master’s students, and nine doctoral students, and leads grants exceeding $10 million as principal investigator, including a $5 million U.S. Department of Energy Energy Earthshot project on carbon dioxide removal.