Christopher Field

Christopher B. Field is an American scientist and researcher, who has contributed to the field of climate change. The author of more than 200 scientific publications, Field's research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale. His work includes major field experiments on responses of California grassland to multi-factor global change, integrative studies on the global carbon cycle,[1] and assessments of impacts of climate change on agriculture.[2] Field's work with models includes studies on the global distribution of carbon sources and sinks, and studies on environmental consequences of expanding biomass energy.[3]

Positions and accolades

Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology.[4] Field received his PhD from Stanford University in 1981 and has been at the Carnegie Institution for Science since 1984. Field is also a Professor of Biology and Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford University,[3] the Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He was a coordinating lead author for the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Field has testified before House and Senate committees and has appeared on media from NPR's “Science Friday” to BBC's “Your World Today.” In September 2008, Field was elected co-chair of Working Group 2 of the IPCC, along with Vicente Barros.[5] In 2009, Field was one of ten recipients of the 15th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on the environment.[6][7]

Also Field received the 2013 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change for discovering the importance of ecosystems and their effective management in the battle against climate change. Field's work has allowed to quantify the global climate impact of deforestation, agriculture and other changes in vegetation cover. And vice versa. It has helped predict how climate change will impact on land ecosystems. For 2022 he was awarded the Japan Prize in the category "Biological Production, Ecology/Environment".[8]

Field currently serves as a co-chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's "Working Group II, impacts, adaptation, vulnerability."[9] In February 2015, the US State Department announced his candidacy to be IPCC Chair.[10]

Field Lab

Chris Field's lab at Carnegie Science focuses on ecological research from the ecosystem- to the global scale.[11] Much of the work emphasizes understanding drivers and impacts of global environmental change on various ecosystems, including grasslands and oceans. The Field Lab is also currently working on biomass energy production.[12]

People

Former notable Ph.D. students that Chris Field advised are:[13]

  • William R. L. Anderegg
  • Christa Anderson
  • Rebecca R. Hernandez
  • Jennifer Johnson
  • Kelly McManus Chauvin
  • James T. Randerson

Former notable postdoctoral scholars that Chris Field advised are:

  • David Lobell
  • Katharine J. Mach
  • Josep Penuelas
  • Charlotte Stanton
  • Peter Turner

References

  1. ^ Ostrom, Elinor; Joanna Burger; Christopher B. Field; Richard B. Norgaard; David Policansky (1999-04-09). "Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges". Science. 284 (5412): 278–282. Bibcode:1999Sci...284..278.. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.510.4369. doi:10.1126/science.284.5412.278. PMID 10195886.
  2. ^ Field, Christopher; Michael J. Behrenfeld; James T. Randerson; Paul Falkowski (1998-07-10). "Primary Production of the Biosphere: Integrating Terrestrial and Oceanic Components". Science Magazine. 281 (5374): 237–240. Bibcode:1998Sci...281..237F. doi:10.1126/science.281.5374.237. PMID 9657713. Archived from the original on 2018-09-25. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
  3. ^ a b "Christopher Field, PhD". The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2014-07-05. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  4. ^ "Christopher "Chris" Field". Woods Institute for the Environment. Archived from the original on 2010-07-09. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  5. ^ "Carnegie's Chris Field Elected Co-chair of IPCC Working Group 2". Carnegie Institution for Science. 2008-09-04. Archived from the original on 2010-08-08. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  6. ^ "Carnegie's Christopher Field To Receive Heinz Award". Carnegie Institution for Science. 2009-09-15. Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
  7. ^ "Heinz Awards - Christopher Field". Archived from the original on 2009-12-15.
  8. ^ Japan Prize 2022
  9. ^ "IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change". IPCC. Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  10. ^ "Statement by the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, John P. Holdren, on Christopher Field's Candidacy for Chairmanship of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)". whitehouse.gov. 2015-02-27. Archived from the original on 2019-12-06. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
  11. ^ "Carnegie Department of Global Ecology". dge.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
  12. ^ "Carnegie Department of Global Ecology". dge.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-11-10.
  13. ^ "Carnegie Department of Global Ecology". dge.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-11-10.