Robert Howarth

Robert Warren Howarth is an American biogeochemist and environmental scientist. Howarth is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University. In 2023, The New Yorker cited Howarth as “one of the world’s premier methane scientists.” In 2011, Time named him one of that year’s “people who mattered,” for his research criticizing the presentation of natural gas as a “bridge-fuel” in the transition to renewable energy. Howarth studied oceanography at Amherst College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1974, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, earning a Doctoral Degree Biological Oceanography in 1979.