Christopher B. Field
Department of Global Ecology
Carnegie Institution
Stanford, CA 94305
Education
1975
A.B., Biology Harvard College
1981
Ph.D., Biology Stanford University
Employment History
1981 -- 1984
Assistant Professor, Biology, University of Utah
1984 -- 2002
Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution of Washington
1986 -- 1989
Assistant Professor by courtesy, Stanford University
1989 -- 1996
Associate Professor by courtesy, Stanford University
1996 -- 2005
Professor by courtesy, Stanford University
2002 -- present
Director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution
2005 -- present
Professor of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Professional Service/Activities
Member, US National Academy of Sciences (2001)
Ecological Society of America Aldo Leopold Fellow (2000)
Senior Fellow by courtesy, Stanford Institute of International Studies (2005)
Service on a variety of National Research Council committees – Currently on Board on Environmental Science and Toxicology (1999)
Service on several editorial boards – Currently on board of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2001)
Publications
Field, CB, and MR Raupach, editors. 2004. The Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World. Island Press, Washington.
Field, CB, and J Kaduk. 2004. The carbon balance of an old-growth forest: Building across approaches. Ecosystems 7:525-533.
Field, CB, MR Raupach, and R Victoria. 2004. The global carbon cycle: Integrating humans, climate, and the natural world. Pages 1-13 in CB Field and MR Raupach, editors. The global carbon cycle: Integrating humans, climate, and the natural world. Island Press, Washington, DC.
Gruber, N, P Friedlingstein, CB Field, R Valentini, M Heimann, JE Richey, P Romero-Lankao, E-D Schulze, and C-T A Chen. 2004. The vulnerability of the carbon cycle in the 21st century: An assessment of carbon-climate-human interactions. Pages 45-76 in CB Field and MR Raupach, editors. The Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Humans, Climate, and the Natural World. Island Press, Washington, DC.
Hayhoe, K, D Cayan, CB Field, PC Frumhoff, EP Maurer, NL Miller, SC Moser, SH Schneider, KN Cahill, EE Cleland, L Dale, R Drapek, RM Hanemann, LS Kalkstein, J Lenihan, CK Lunch, RP Neilson, SC Sheridan, and JH Verville. 2004. Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101:12422-12427.
Horz, H-P, A Barbrook, CB Field, and BJM Bohannan. 2004. The response of soil bacteria to simulated global change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101: 15136-15141
Melillo, JM, CB Field, and B Moldan, editors. 2003. Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles: Global Change and Human Impacts. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Cowling, SA, and CB Field. 2003. Environmental control of leaf area production: Implications for vegetation and land-surface modeling - art. No. 1007. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17:1007.
Hungate, B, J Dukes, M Shaw, Y Luo, and CB Field. 2003. Nitrogen and climate change. Science 302:1512-1513.
Melillo, JR, CB Field, and B Moldan. 2003. Element interactions and the cycles of life: An overview. Pages 1-14 in JM Melillo, CB Field, and B Moldan, editors. Interactions of the Major Biogeochemical Cycles: Global Change and Human Impacts. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Zavaleta, E, B Thomas, N Chiariello, G Asner, M Shaw, and C Field. 2003. Plants reverse warming effect on ecosystem water balance. Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100:9892-9893.
Zavaleta, E, M Shaw, N Chiariello, B Thomas, E Cleland, C Field, and H Mooney. 2003. Grassland responses to three years of elevated temperature, CO2, precipitation, and n deposition. Ecological Monographs 73:585-604.
DeFries, RS, RA Houghton, MC Hansen, CB Field, D Skole, and J Townshend. 2002. Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and regrowth based on satellite observations for the 1980s and 1990s. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:14256-14261.
Goodale, CL, MJ Apps, RA Birdsey, CB Field, LS Heath, RA Houghton, JC Jenkins, GH Kohlmaier, W Kurz, SR Liu, GJ Nabuurs, S Nilsson, and AZ Shvidenko. 2002. Forest carbon sinks in the northern hemisphere. Ecological Applications 12:891-899.
Hicke, JA, GP Asner, JT Randerson, CJ Tucker, SO Los, RA Birdsey, JC Jenkins, C Field, and E Holland. 2002. Satellite-derived increases in net primary productivity across north america 1982-1998. Geophysical Research Letters 29.
Shaw, MR, ES Zavaleta, NR Chiariello, EE Cleland, HA Mooney, and CB Field. 2002. Grassland responses to global environmental changes suppressed by elevated CO2. Science 298:1987-1990.
Behrenfeld, MJ, JT Randerson, CR McClain, GC Feldman, SO Los, CJ Tucker, PG Falkowski, CB Field, R Frouin, WE Esaias, DD Kolber, and NH Pollack. 2001. Biospheric primary production during an enso transition. Science 291:2594-2597.
Hu, S, FS Chapin, MK Firestone, CB Field, and NR Chiariello. 2001. Nitrogen limitation of microbial decomposition in a grassland under elevated CO2. Nature (London) 409:188-191.
Pacala, SW, GC Hurtt, D Baker, P Peylin, RA Houghton, RA Birdsey, L Heath, ET Sundquist, RF Stallard, P Ciais, P Moorcroft, JP Caspersen, E Shevliakova, B Moore, G Kohlmaier, E Holland, M Gloor, ME Harmon, SM Fan, JL Sarmiento, CL Goodale, D Schimel, and CB Field. 2001. Consistent land- and atmosphere-based us carbon sink estimates. Science 292:2316-2319.
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