Craig Schiffries, PhD

Dr. Craig M. Schiffries is director of the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO).

He previously served as Director of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources at the National Academy of Sciences; Director for Geoscience Policy at the Geological Society of America; Director of Science Policy at the National Council for Science and the Environment; Bateman Lecturer at Yale University; and Congressional Science Fellow.

He has been a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, U.S. National Committee for the International Year of Planet Earth, External Advisory Board of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 project on Science for Clean Energy, and DCO Executive Committee. He served as Co-chair of the USGS Coalition and President of the Geological Society of Washington, among other professional service.

Dr. Schiffries simultaneously earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Yale University, where was he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, graduated summa cum laude, and double-majored in Geology and Geophysics and in Economics and Political Science. He was a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he earned an honors B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He received a Ph.D. in Geology from Harvard University.

In addition to his scientific contributions in igneous and metamorphic petrology, stable isotope geochemistry, and economic geology, Dr. Schiffries has written on science policy and testified before Congress on behalf of leading scientific organizations.