Constantin Cranganu

About

Professor Constantin Cranganu is a geophysicist and hydrogeologist, with strong geologic background. He started teaching the course “”Climate Change, Torn between Myth and Fact”” in Spring 2004. In parallel, he published research on carbon dioxide sequestration and alternative energy resources (geothermal, gas hydrates). The course was paused in 2017 and it was resumed in Spring 2023 with different names: “”Climate Change – Past and Present”” (undergraduate) and “”Earth’s Climate”” (graduate).

In 2007, Professor Constantin Cranganu started vigorous research in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning approaches in hydrogeology, petrophysics, and petroleum geosciences. At Brooklyn College, he introduced the first courses in geophysics, GIS, petroleum geology, geostatistics, petrophysics. He has also published relevant books and scientific papers about the domains mentioned above.

Department and Climate Courses

Earth and Environmental Sciences

2004- 2017: Climate Change, Torn between Myth and Fact

2023 – EESC1080 Climate Change – Past and Present; EESC 7912G and EES 79903 (Graduate Center) Earth’s Climate

Climate Research Citations

Books:

Cranganu, C., 2012, Heat flow in Oklahoma and the south central United States, Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-8484-2458-0, 196 pp.

Aja, S. U., and C. Cranganu, 2013, Exploring the Earth System, Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., 263 pp. (1st Edition)

Aja, S. U., and C. Cranganu, 2017, Exploring the Earth System, Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., ISBN: 978-1-4652-0696-1, 334 pp. (2nd edition)

Cranganu, C., 2019, A machine for weaving inconvenient ideas – Essays (almost) politically incorrect, Integral Publishing Co., 375 p (in Romanian).

Cranganu, C., 2020, Climate Change – A Guide (Sometimes) Politically Incorrect, Integral Publishing Co., 374 p. (in Romanian)

Cranganu, C., 2021, Climate Change, Torn Between Myth and Fact, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022 soft edition, 352 p.

Papers:

Cranganu, C., and H. Soleymani, 2015, Carbon dioxide sealing capacity: Textural or compositional controls? A case study from the Oklahoma Panhandle, Environmental Geosciences, vol.  22, no. 2, pp. 57–74.

Cranganu, C., H. Soleymani, S. Azad, and K. Watson, 2014, Carbon Dioxide Sealing Capacity: Textural or Compositional Controls?, AAPG Datapages/Search and Discovery Article #41474, 35 p. 

Deming, D., Cranganu, C., and Lee, Y., 2002, Self-Sealing in the Sedimentary Basins, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(B12), 2329, doi: 10.1029/2001JB000504

Cranganu, C., Lee, Y., and Deming, D., 1998, Heat Flow in Oklahoma and south central United States, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 103, p. 27,107 – 27,121. 

Climate Change, Torn Between Myth and Fact, 2021, Cambridge Scholars Publishing