Christopher B. Field is an American scientist and

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er, who has contributed to the field of

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. The author of more than 200

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s, Field's research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the

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to the global scale. His work includes major field experiments on responses of California grassland to multi-factor global change, integrative studies on the

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, and assessments of impacts of climate change on agriculture. Field's work with models includes studies on the global distribution of carbon sources and sinks, and studies on environmental consequences of expanding

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Positions and accolades

Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology. Field received his PhD from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1981 and has been at the Carnegie Institution for Science since 1984. Field is also a Professor of

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and Environmental Earth System Science at

, the Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, and a member of the

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. He was a coordinating lead author for the fourth assessment report of the

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. Field has testified before House and Senate committees and has appeared on media from

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's “Science Friday” to

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