Sponsored lecture at ESA 2015: Christopher B. Field, Carnegie Institution for Science

Last updated: 9 Apr, 2015


In ESA’s centenary the New Phytologist Trust is delighted to be sponsoring the ESA Centennial Ecology Lecture by Christopher B. Field from the Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science (Stanford, CA, USA). The title of the lecture is Climate change: mapping the problem space and the solution space, and it will take place on Monday, 10th August, 12pm to 1:15pm, Baltimore Convention Center, Room 308. Further information on the Centennial Ecology Lecture Series can be found on the ESA Baltimore website.

 

Chris Field

 

Brief biography

Chris Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University, and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Field’s research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale, integrating field, laboratory, and modeling approaches. Field has been deeply involved with national and international scale efforts to advance science and assessment related to global ecology and climate change. 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). He is a recipient of the Heinz Award, the Max Plank Research Award, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, and the Roger Revelle Medal. Field was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2001), and fellowships in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010), the Ecological Society of America (2012), and the American Geophysical Union (2014). Field received his PhD from Stanford in 1981 and has been at the Carnegie Institution for Science since 1984.

 

Christopher B. Field

 

See also:

New Phytologist on tour

Centennial Ecology Lecture Series

ESA Baltimore website

Chris Field’s website

 


Originally posted 9 April 2015