J. Taylor Perron
Taylor Perron is a geomorphologist and Professor at MIT. He was a 2021 MacArthur fellow.
Education and work
Perron obtained an AB in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Archaeology at Harvard University and a PhD in Earth and Planetary Science from University of [California, Berkeley]. Perron was a postdoc at Harvard University.Perron is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Perron researched Amazonian Dark earth.
Perron was named a 2021 MacArthur fellow for studying landscapes evolution and developing tools for predictions involving climate change.