40th ANNUAL H.J. OOSTING ECOLOGY LECTURE by Dr. Chris Field

Chris Field is the 40th H.J. Oosting Lecturer. 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 Preserve. He is 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 National Academy of Sciences. Field's research emphasizes impacts of climate change from molecular to global scales. He has led major experiments on responses of California grassland to multi-factor environmental changes. He was coordinating lead author for the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a member of the IPCC delegation that received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Field was recently elected co-chair of the next assessment on climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. For more on Prof. Henry J. Oosting, see: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/uaoosting/inv/ http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/chronob/OOST1903.htm