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Ralph Keeling
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<p>Ralph Franklin Keeling (born 1957) is a professor at <a href="/facts/Scripps_Institution_of_Oceanography/WJX2h16Y">Scripps Institution of Oceanography</a>. He is the Principal Investigator for the <i>Atmospheric Oxygen Research Group</i> at Scripps and is the director of the <i>Scripps CO2 Program</i>, the measurement program behind the <a href="/facts/Keeling_curve/6MueKVbs">Keeling curve</a>, which was started by his father <a href="/facts/Charles_David_Keeling/o2YFEXwb">Charles David Keeling</a> in 1958. Ralph Keeling has developed precise instruments and techniques for the measurement of atmospheric oxygen and <a href="/facts/Anthropogenic_greenhouse_gases/Cu9nXPHE">anthropogenic</a> CO2 in the ocean, and for the analysis of land and ocean <a href="/facts/Carbon_sinks/Gv7uXVmT">carbon sinks</a>. </p>