North American carbon budget and implications for the global carbon cycle [also known as the Prototype State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR) focused on North America]

Gregg Marland

Environmental Sciences Division

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

P.O. Box 2008

Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6335

Tel: (865) 241-4850; Fax: (865) 574-2232

 

Education

 

1964                B.S.     Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA

1964-1966                   Washington University, St. Louis, MO

1972                Ph.D.   University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

 

Employment History

 

2000-present    Distinguished Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

1987-2000       Senior Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

1975-1987       Staff Scientist, Institute for Energy Analysis, Oak Ridge Associated Universities

1970-1975       Assistant Professor of Geology, Indiana State University

 

Professional Service/Activities

 

Committee on Global Change Research - National Research Council

Lead author - IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change): Special Report on Carbon Capture and Storage

Lead author - IPCC: Third Assessment Report, Land-use Change and Forestry

Lead author - IPCC: Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry

Lead author - IPCC: Second Assessment Report, Energy Primer

 

Publications

 

Marland, G., A Brenkert and J. Olivier. 1999. CO₂ from fossil fuel burning: a comparison of ORNL and EDGAR estimates of national emissions. Environmental Science and Policy 2:265-273.

Marland, G. and B. Schlamadinger. 1999. The Kyoto Protocol could make a difference for optimal forest-based CO₂ mitigation strategy: some results from GORCAM. Environmental Science and Policy 2:111-124.

Schlamadinger B. and G. Marland. 1999. Net effect of forest harvest on CO₂ emissions to the atmosphere: a sensitivity analysis on the influence of time. Tellus 51B:314-325.

Andres, R.J., D.J. Fielding, G. Marland, T.A. Boden and N. Kumar. 1999. Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel use, 1751-1950. Tellus 51B:759-765.

Sampson, R.N., R.J. Scholes, et al. 2000. Additional human-induced activities – Article 3.4, In Land use, land-use change, and forestry, A special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, R.T. Watson, I.R. Noble, B. Bolin, N.H. Ravindranath, D.J. Verardo and D.J. Dokken (eds.), Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 181-281.

Marland, G., B. Schlamadinger and R. Matthews. 2000. “Kyoto Forests” and a broader perspective on management. Science 290:1895-1896.

Kheshgi, H., R. Prince and G. Marland. 2000. The potential of biomass fuels in the context of global climate change: focus on transportation fuels. Annual reviews of Energy and Environment 25:1999-2444.

Marland, G., K. Fruit and R. Sedjo. 2001. Accounting for sequestered carbon: the question of permanence. Environmental Science and Policy 4:259-268.

Marland, G., T.O. West and J. Fenderson. 2001. Carbon emitted, carbon saved; CDIAC Communications Newsletter, Issue no. 28, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.

Marland, G., B.A. McCarl and U. Schneider. 2001. Soil carbon: policy and economics. Climatic Change 51:101-117.

West, T.O. and G. Marland. 2002. A synthesis of carbon sequestration, carbon emissions, and net carbon flux in agriculture: comparing tillage practices in the United States. Agricultural Ecosystems and Environment 91:217-232.

West, T.O. and G. Marland. 2002. Net carbon flux from agricultural ecosystems: methodology for full carbon cycle analyses. Environmental Pollution 116:439-444.

Marland, G. and T. Boden. 2002. The increasing concentration of atmospheric CO₂: how much, when, and why? In Proceedings of the International seminar on nuclear war and planetary emergencies 26th session, R. Ragaini (ed.), 19-24 August, 2001, Erice, Italy, World Scientific Publishing Co., River Edge, New Jersey, USA, pp. 283-295.

Pielke, R.A. Sr., G. Marland, R.A. Betts, T.N. Chase, J.L. Eastman, J.O. Niles, D.S. Niyogi and S.W. Running. 2002. The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system - relevance to climate change policy beyond the radioactive effect of greenhouse gases. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A. 360:1705-1719.

Schlamadinger, B., L. Aukland, S. Berg, D. Bradley, L. Ciccarese, V. Dameron, A. Faaij, M. Jackson, G. Marland and R. Sikkema. 2002. Forest-based carbon mitigation projects; options for carbon accounting and for dealing with non-permanence, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, FCCC/WEB/2002/12,4 Sept.2002, http://unfccc.int/resources/webdocs/2002/12.pdf.

Marland, E. and G. Marland. 2003. The treatment of long-lived, carbon-containing products in inventories of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere. Environmental Science and Policy 6:139-152.

Huston, M.A. and G. Marland. 2003. Carbon management and biodiversity. J. of Environmental Management 67:77-86.

Marland, G., R.A. Pielke Sr., M. Apps, R. Avissar, R.A. Betts, K.J. Davis, P.C. Frumhoff, S.T. Jackson, L. Joyce, P. Kauppi, J. Katzenberger, K.G. MacDicken, R. Neilson, J.O. Niles, D.D.S. Niyogi, R.J. Norby, N. Pena, N. Sampson and Y. Xue. 2003. The climatic impacts of land surface change and carbon management, and the implications for climate-change mitigation policy. Climate Policy 3:149-157.

Marland, G., T.O. West, B. Schlamadinger and L. Canella. 2003. Managing soil organic carbon in agriculture: the net effect on greenhouse gas emissions. Tellus 55B:613-621.

West, T.O. and G. Marland. 2003. Net carbon flux from agriculture: carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, crop yield, and land-use change. Biogeochemistry 63:73-82.

Marland, G., C.T. Garten Jr., W.M. Post and T.O. West. 2003. CSiTE studies on carbon sequestration in soils. Energy – The International Journal (in press).

Sedjo, R.A. and G. Marland. 2003. Inter-trading permanent emissions credits and rented temporary carbon emissions offsets: some issues and alternatives. Climate Policy (in press).

West, T.O., G. Marland, W.M. Post, A.W. King, A.K. Jain and K. Andrasko. 2003. Carbon management response curves: estimates of temporal carbon dynamics. Environmental Management (in press).

Marland, G., D. Archer, G. Benford, M. Ishikawa, F.B. Metting, F.M. Orr Jr. and T. Volk. 2003. Biological Options toward stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the Earth’s atmosphere. Aspen Global Change Institute (in press).