Christopher Field
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Christopher Field
Senior Fellow - Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment; Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies
Type:
Senior Fellow
School:
Humanities and Sciences
Additional Information:
Water, Health and Development; Center on Food Security and the Environment; Global Freshwater Initiative; Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Research Area(s):
Climate, Ecosystem Services and Conservation
Biography
Chris Field is the founding Director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. He is co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which led the effort on the IPCC Special Report on “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” (2012) and Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2014).
Field’s research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale. He has, for two decades, led major experiments on responses of California grassland to multi-factor global change. He has been deeply involved with national and international scale efforts to advance science and assessment related to global ecology and climate change.
He is a recipient of a Heinz Award and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Ecological Society of America.
Field received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1981 and has been at the Carnegie Institution since 1984.
Selected Publications by this Author
Environmental Venture Projects
News & Press Releases
Solar Solution to California Energy Demand »
Study finds solar equipment constructed on and around existing infrastructure in California could generate enough electricity to exceed the state’s demand by up to five times
By Carnegie Institution for Science
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Media Coverage
Understanding the World Through Science »
Interview with Senior Woods Fellow Chris Field (Biology, Earth System Science) about scientific literacy in the age of climate change.
By Dave Boyce,
U.S. Candidate to Run IPCC Says Rich Nations Must Help Steer the World Away From Coal »
Features interview with Woods Senior Fellow Chris Field (Biology, Earth System Science) who is in the running to head the world's premier scientific body on climate change.
By Gayathri Vaidyanathan,
What Killed Off the Woolly Mammoth? Climate Change »
Woods Senior Fellow Chris Field (Humanities and Sciences) discusses concerns with rapid climate change.
By Henry Gass,