Project Summary:
Elisabeth Holland leads the Biogeoscience Program (BGS) and is a lead scientist in the Bio-hydro-atmosphere interactions of Energy, Aerosols, Carbon, H2O, Organics & Nitrogen (BEACHON) project.
Nobel Peace Prize
She is also one of the lead authors for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chapter 7, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group 1, the Physical Science Basis of Climate Change Report. The Climate Change 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report along with Al Gore Jr. recived the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts. Additional Information
After IPCC, 26 scientists speak on global warming
Earth & Sky (2 Feb 2007)
Elizabeth Holland … “no longer uncertain” - I’m speaking here from my personal scientific view – not as an author of an IPCC chapter, but my personal view. My view is that most of us scientists are now convinced that global warming is happening. We are now convinced that the most likely cause of global warming is human activity. And we are no longer uncertain about whether the climate is warming. We are actually quite certain that the climate is warming, and we are certain that human activity is the cause." Additional Information
100 Biggest Weather Moments
Weather Channel Series (April 2007)
The Weather Channel has produced a new series featuring the top 100 Biggest Weather Moments. Elisabeth Holland (ACD-TIIMES) appears in the following clips.
 #58 - Year without a Summer; Eruption of Mt. Tambora. If TV had existed in 1816, many New Englanders wouldn't have believed their local weatherman forecasting snow in summer. But sure enough, that's exactly what fell out of the sky one day in June.
 #52 - America's wake-up call; Almost 30 years after its publication, the book Silent Spring, written by Rachel Carson, is recognized, evoking ominous images of DDT, bird and fish kills, and pesticide danger. She was the first major voice of the modern environmental movement. This marine biologist and zoologist had an immense respect for the natural world. Her desire to protect the ecosystem and all forms of life was at the heart of her groundbreaking and still controversial best-selling 1962 book about  the connection between pesticides and the food chain.
#35 - Discovery of the Ozone hole; Scientist discovered in the 1970s that dandy hair-dos came at a price. The spray being used to hold up that big hair was giving the Earth a little bit of a bald spot.
 #22 - Air pollution's ground zero; Donora, Pennsylvania 1948: Creation of the EPA. When a weather system interacted with a noxious cloud from a small, industrial city in 1948, it did more than blanket the town in a toxic fog and sicken 7,000 of its residents, killing almost two dozen of them. It also spawned the birth of the Clean Air movement in the U.S.A.
Boulder Scientists Key to Study
Climate change report says global warming likely caused by humans (referring to the announcement 2007 IPCC Report), by Todd Neff (Boulder Daily Camera, 2 Feb 2007)
"I think the scientific community as well as the political community are going to be stunned by the body of evidence and how convincing it is," said Elisabeth Holland, a National Center for Atmospheric Research senior scientist and one of the lead authors. "The evidence is compelling in a way that it never has been before because we just simply didn't have all the pieces." Additional Information
Additional "In The News" spots
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TIIMES External Collaborators:
Kathryn Alexander, Arizona State University
Joseph Alfieri, Purdue University
Ray Anderson, University of California, Irvine
Ryan Anderson, University of Minnesota
David Archer, University of Chicago
Vivek Arora, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling & Analysis
Paolo Artaxo, University of São Paulo
Roni Avissar, Duke University
Yaxidhi Bamutaze, Makerere University
Valerie Bennington-Benesh, University of Wisconsin
Kathryn Berger, University of New Hampshire
Richard Betts, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Fredi Birsan, Indiana University
Joseph Blankinship, Northern Arizona University
Philippe Bougeault, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
Bryan Brandel, University of Colorado
Paul Brooks, University of Arizona
Antonio Busalacchi, University of Maryland - Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)
Martha Butler, The Pennsylvania State University
Josep Canadell, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Mariah Carbone, University of California, Irvine
Erica Cate, University of New Hampshire
Laura Chasmer, Queens University
Amnat Chidthaisong, The Joint Graduate School of Energy and the Environment
James Christian, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling & Analysis
Phillippe Ciais, Institut Pierre Simon LaPlace
Deborah Clark, Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center
Peter Cox, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Pedro Leite Da Silva Dias, Universidade de São Paulo
Martin Dameris, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
Kenneth Denman, University of Victoria
Frank Dentener, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
K Dhanyalekshmi, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Robert Dickinson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Darren Drewry, Duke University
David Easterling, Johns Hopkins University
Veronika Eyring, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
Johann Feichter, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Pierre Friedlingstein, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)-LSCE Unite mixte CEA
Rong Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sandro Fuzzi, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of C.N.R
Jordan Golinkoff, University of Montana-Missoula
Sunling Gong, Meteorological Service of Canada
Sharon Gourdji, University of Michigan
Arun Govind, University of Saskatchewan
Nicolas Gruber, University of California, Los Angeles
Kevin Gurney, Purdue University
Victor Gutierrez Velez, Clark University
Didier Hauglustaine, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL)
Sherri Heck, University of Colorado & NCAR
Christoph Heinze, University of Bergen-Geophysical Institute
Ann Henderson-Sellers, Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organization (ANSTO) Institute for Environmental Research
Peter Hildebrand, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) - NASA
Joanna House, University of Bristol - QUEST
Paul Houser, George Mason University - CREW
Daniel Jacob, Harvard University
Jennifer Jensen, University of Idaho
Ranjeet John, University of Toledo
Chris Jones, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction & Research
Andrew Jones, Sustainability Institute
Fuu-Ming Kai, University of California, Irvine
Jenny Kao-Kniffin, University of Wisconsin
Bernd Kärcher, Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
Michio Kawamiya, Frontier Research Center for Global Change
Myroslava Khomik, McMaster University
Angela Kross, McGill University
Lynette Laffea, University of Colorado
Brian Lamb, Washington State University
Luciene Lara, University of São Paulo
Keith Lassey, National Centre for Climate-Energy Solutions
Corinne Le Quéré, University of East Anglia
Carolyn Leck, Stockholm University
Ulrike Lohmann, Institut f. Atmosphäre und Klima CHN
Yadvinder Malhi, University of Oxford
Kenneth Masarie, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Gordon McFiggans, University of Manchester
Surabi Menon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jana Milford, University of Colorado
John Miller, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - GMD
Kendra Morliengo-Bredlau, University of Colorado
Dev Niyogi, Purdue University
Tomohira Oda, Osaka University of Japan
Zaitao Pan, St. Louis University
Nicholas Parazoo, Colorado State University
Alicia Peduzzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Josep Penuelas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) - Center for Ecological Research and Forestry (CREAF)
Christa Peters-Lidard, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) - NASA
Philippe Peylin, Laboratoire de Biogeochimie Isotopique
Andy Pitman, Macquarie University
Johannes Quaas, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Srikanthan Ramachandran, Physical Research Laboratory
David Randall, Colorado State University
Michael Raupach, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Peter Rayner, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Gregor Rehder, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences
Wei Ren, Auburn University
Ulf Riebesell, Leibniz-Institute of Marine Sciences
Diego Riveros, Montana State University-Bozeman
Christian Rödenbeck, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Miguel Roman, Boston University
Leon Rotstayn, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Nigel Roulet, McGill University
Steve Running, University of Montana-Missoula
Chris Sabine, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), PMEL
Koichi Sagaguchi, University of Arizona
Martin Schultz, Yale University
Michael Schulz, University Bremen
Steve Schwartz, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Cheney Shreve, University of Virginia
Oliver Sonnentag, University of Toronto
Shannon Spencer, Colorado State University
Will Steffen, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
David Stevenson, California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
James Sulzman, Independent
Mark Sutton, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Ann Thijs, University of Texas at Austin
Yuhong Tian, Georgia Institute of Technology
Erico Tomelleri, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Twan Van Noije, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
Rodrigo Vargas, University of California, Riverside
Lixin Wang, University of Virginia
Sonia Wharton, University of California, Davis
Kyle Whittinghill, University of Minnesota
Oliver Wild, University of Cambridge
Steven Wofsy, Harvard University
Stephen Wood, Monash University
Daqing Yang, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Xiaojuan Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona
Jose Zerpa, North Carolina State University
Tingjun Zhang, University of Colorado
Xiayoe Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences-Institute of Earth Environment
Liming Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Publications:
Lara, L. LS., E. A. Holland, P. Artaxo, P. B. Camargo, L. A. Martinelli, 2007: Land use and expanding industrialization are changing nitrogen deposition in Brazil. Biogeochemistry. (In Press)
Armstrong, J. A., S. K. Avery, H. B. Bluestein, E. W. Friday, M. A. Geller, E. A. Holland, C. F. Kolb, M. A. LeMone, R. E. Lopez, S. Solomon, J. M. Wallace, R. A. Weller, S. E. Zebiak, 2007: Strategic guidance for the National Science Foundation's support of the atmospheric sciences. National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, Board of Atmos. Sci. and Climate, A.M Staudt and C. Mengelt, Ed., National Research Council.
IPCC, (including E. A. Holland)., 2007: Frequently Asked Questions-A publication to accompany, In, Climate Change 2007, The Physical Science Basis. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, IPCC AR4 WG1 Final Report, X. Dahe, M. Manning, S. Solomon et al., Eds.
Denman, K. L., G. P. Brasseur, A. Chidthaisong, P. Ciais, P. M. Cox, R. E. Dickinson, D. Hauglustaine, C. Heinze, E. Holland, D. Jacob, U. Lohmann, S. Ramachandran, P. L. Da Silva Dias, S. C. Wofsy, X. Zhang, 2007: Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry. Chapter 7. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, IPCC AR4 WG1 Final Report, Solomon, S., D. Qin, M/ Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K. B. Averyt, M. Tignor, and H. L. Miller, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 499-588. |
The overarching BGS goal is to model the biogeochemical cycles within the Earth system consistent with analyses of observations. This synergy between observations and models to understand and integrate biogeochemical cycles across scales is a core value of the BGS program and the broader NCAR effort.