David Ho (oceanographer)

David T. Ho is an American scientist who works at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.[1] He is known for his work on air-sea gas transfer, mangrove carbon cycling, and tracer oceanography.[2] He also created the Bamboo Bike Project, with John Mutter in 2006,[3] which has spurred growth in the number of groups and companies creating bamboo bicycles around the world.

David Ho
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University
Known for
  • Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment
  • Bamboo Bike Project
Scientific career
FieldsOceanography
Institutions
Websitewww.ldeo.columbia.edu/~david

Background

David Ho was awarded a Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences[4] from Columbia University in New York in 2001. After a short postdoc at Princeton University,[5] he returned to the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia University and continued his research there until 2008, when he moved to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Ho was also Chief Scientist on the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment,[6] a multi-agency funded effort to study air-sea gas exchange in the Southern Ocean. He has published over 50 research papers. Ho is an invited professor in the Department of Geosciences at the École normale supérieure.[7]

Bamboo Bike Project

Ho started the Bamboo Bike Project together with earth science professor John Mutter, and bicycle maker Craig Calfee. They brought simple, low-cost bicycle designs primarily made of bamboo to Ghana, teaching local craftsmen to build them.[8] The aim was to contribute to poverty reduction by facilitating locally-made affordable transportation. They planned to implement the project in African Millennium Villages, as part of the UN Millennium Development Goals.[9] In 2007 he received seed funding for the project from Columbia's Earth Institute.[10]

References
  1. "David t ho @ university of hawaii".
  2. "David | Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory".
  3. "Pedal Pushers Online | Grow Your Own Bike: Can a bike made from Bamboo end poverty in the world? Ask David Ho!". www.pedalpushersonline.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-31.
  4. http://eesc.columbia.edu/
  5. http://cmi.princeton.edu/about/directory/alumni_students
  6. http://so-gasex.org/
  7. Bopp, David Ho,Laurent. "It is not too late to look up". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  8. "Pedals, Chutes & Leaves". Columbia Magazine. 2007. Archived from the original on 2021-04-04. Retrieved 2021-04-04.
  9. "Bamboo bikes". New Internationalist. 2008-11-02. Archived from the original on 2021-04-04. Retrieved 2021-04-04.
  10. "Seed Funding Competition Year 2006 - 2007 - the Earth Institute - Columbia University".
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