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Member Since 1991
Gordon B. Bonan
Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Professional Experience
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Senior Scientist
1989 - Present
Education
University of Virginia
Doctorate
1988
Honors & Awards
John Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture
Received December 2020
Lecture Title: Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Forests, Climate Change, and Our Future
Lecture Title: Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Forests, Climate Change, and Our Future
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Union Fellow
Received December 2013
Citation
For highly influential work on the coupling of terrestrial ecosystems with the atmosphere and feedbacks with climate change.
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Publications
Flexible Foliar Stoichiometry Reduces the Magnitude of the Global Land Carbon Sink

Increased plant growth under elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) slows the pace of climate warming and underlies projections of terrestrial carbon (C) an...

November 06, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Identifying challenges to increase collaboration between field ecologists and modelers
ECOLOGICAL FORECASTING IN THE EARTH SYSTEM I POSTER
biogeosciences | 16 december 2022
Adrian V. Rocha, Gordon B. Bonan, Michael SanCleme...
The availability of ecological data has increased exponentially over the past several decades, and led to tremendous advances in our understanding of ...
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Interactive Visualizations and Analysis for CTSM Simulations at NEON Sites: A Successful Example of Utilizing Open-source Software for Democratizing Access to Climate Science and Enabling Scientific Discovery
NEXT-GENERATION DATA SYSTEMS FOR EARTH SCIENCE: COMBINING INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION, EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE DATA PROCESSING IN THE COMMERCIAL CLOUD IV ORAL
earth and space science informatics | 15 december 2022
Negin Sobhani, Dawn Lenz, Danica Lombardozzi, Will...
Modern Earth system science uses a variety of complex observational data with ever more sophisticated computational models to understand the planet. C...
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Atmospheric Feedbacks Modulate Land Parameters’ Influence on Land Surface Fluxes
NEW MECHANISMS, FEEDBACKS, AND APPROACHES FOR PREDICTING GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE AND INTERVENTION III ORAL
biogeosciences | 15 december 2022
Claire Zarakas, Abigail L. Swann, Amy Liu, Daniel ...
Terrestrial processes influence the atmosphere by controlling land surface fluxes of energy, water, and carbon. A growing body of research has demonst...
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