Christopher Field
Christopher Bower Field (* 1953 ) is an American scientist. He has authored over 200 scientific studies. His main focus is the study of the effects of global warming , looking at it from the molecular to the global level. Christopher Field's studies relate, for example, to the global carbon cycle and the effects of climate change on agriculture.
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He is founding director of Carnegie Institution 's Department of Global Ecology and Joan Lane Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. He was second chairman of Working Group II for the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change from 2012. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2010), the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Ecological Society of America .
Christopher Field has received the following honors so far: the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award , the Heinz Award , the Max Planck Research Award , the Roger Revelle Medal of the American Geophysical Union and the Stephen H. Schneider Award .
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- Christopher Field's homepage at Stanford University: https://woods.stanford.edu/about/woods-faculty/christopher-field
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter F. (PDF; 815 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed September 24, 2017 .
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| SURNAME | Field, Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Field, Christopher B .; Field, Christopher Bower |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |