Christopher B. FieldChristopher B. Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, Professor of Biology and Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford University and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Prserve. Field received his AB in Biology from Harvard in 1975 and his PhD in Biology from Stanford in 1981. In more than 200 published papers, Field's research has addressed many aspects of global change, from the molecular to the global scale. His contributions probe the global carbon cycle, impacts of climate change on ecosystems and agriculture and options for sustainable renewable energy. He is a recipient of the Heinz Award, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences. He was a coordinating lead author for the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and, as of September 2008, co-chair of Working Group 2 of the IPCC. Read More Read Less