The 2022 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Biological Production, Ecology/Environment
• Achievement:
  For outstanding contributions to estimation of global biospheric productivity and climate change science using advanced formulas based on observation
• Lecture:
  Nature's Role in Climate Change Solutions

Award and Honor

1971	National Merit Scholarship
1975	Phi Beta Kappa
1975	A.B., summa cum laude
1977	NSF predoctoral fellowship
2000	Ecological Society of America, Aldo Leopold Fellow
2001	Elected Member, US National Academy of Sciences
2006	Stanford University Sidney and Skippy Prize for Outstanding Research in the Prevention or Reduction of Global Warming
2006	Townsend Distinguished Lecture, University South Carolina
2009	Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2009	Heinz Award
2010	Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011	W. David Baird Distinguished Lecturer, Pepperdine University
2011	Henry J. Oosting Memorial Lecture in Ecology, Duke University
2012	Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires
2012	Foreign Correspondent, Argentine Academy of Environmental Sciences
2012	Fellow, Ecological Society of America
2013	Max Planck Research Award
2013	BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
2014	American Geophysical Union Roger Revelle Medal
2015	Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication
2015	Fellow, California Academy of Sciences

Education

1975	A.B., Harvard College, Biology
1981	Ph.D., Stanford University, Biological Sciences

Professional History

1981-1984	Assistant Professor, University of Utah
1984-2002	Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution of Washington
1986-1996	Assistant Professor by courtesy, Stanford University
1996-2005	Professor by courtesy, Stanford University
2002-2016	Director, Dept. of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution
2005-2016	Faculty Director, Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
2005-	Professor, Stanford University
2005-2011	Senior Fellow by courtesy, Freeman Spogli Institute
2008-	Senior Fellow, Woods Institute
2009-	Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute
2010-	Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies
2016-	Director, Woods Institute for the Environment

Key Publications

• Canadell, JG, CL Quéré, MR Raupach, CB Field, ET Buitenhuis, P Ciais, TJ Conway, NP Gillett, RA Houghton, G. Marland, 2007: Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO₂ growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 104(47), 18866-18870. Doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702737104
• Field, CB, MJ Behrenfeld, JT Randerson, and P Falkowski, 1998: Primary production of the biosphere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components, Science, 281(5374), 237-240. doi: 10.1007/BF00379710
• Field, CB, HA Mooney 1986: The photosynthesis-nitrogen relationship in wild plants. pp 25-55 In T. Givnish (ed) On the Economy of Plant Form and Function, Cambridge University Press.
• Field, CB, 1983: Allocating Leaf Nitrogen for the Maximization of Carbon Gain: Leaf Age as a Control on the Allocation Program, Oecologia, 56(2-3): 341-347. doi: 10.1007/BF00379710