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PIPER, STEPHEN

Specialist

Degrees:

• B.S., Stanford University, Palo Alto
• Ph.D., UCSD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interests:

• Contemporary and recent past global carbon cycle
• Analysis and modeling of observed variations of atmospheric CO2 and 13C/12C
• Regional and global drivers of carbon fluxes between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere

Honors and Awards:

• Contributor to the body of work of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) for which IPCC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 2007
• University of California, San Diego Dissertation Fellowship, 1980-1981
• ARCS Foundation Fellowship, San Diego Chapter, 1976-1978
• National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1975-1978
• Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society, Stanford, California Chapter, 1974
• National Merit Scholarship, 1970-1974

Mentoring:

• Welp, Lisa (Post Doc; 2008-2009)
• Rafelski, Lauren (Graduate; 2006-2008)
• Fessenden, Julianna (Graduate; 1995-1999)

Piper, S. C., "Contributing Author" to P. Forster and V. Ramaswamy ("Coordinating Lead Authors"), Chapter 2. Changes in atmospheric constituents and in radiative forcing, p. 129-234, in Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007.

Keeling, C. D., S. C. Piper, R. B. Bacastow, M. Wahlen, T. P. Whorf, M. Heimann, and H. A. Meijer, Atmospheric CO2 and 13 CO2 exchange with the terrestrial biosphere and oceans from 1978 to 2000: observations and carbon cycle implications", Chapter 5, pages 83-113 in"A History of Atmospheric CO2 and its Effects on Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems", editors, J. R. Ehleringer, T. E. Cerling, M. D. Dearing, Springer Verlag, New York, 2005.

Hashimoto, H., R. R. Nemani, M. A. White, W. M. Jolly, S. C. Piper, C. D. Keeling, R. B. Myneni, and S. W. Running, El Nino-Southern Oscillation-induced variability in terrestrial car- bon cycling, 8 pages, Journal of Geophysical Research 109, D23110, doi:10.1029/2004JD004959, 2004.

Nemani, R. R., C. D. Keeling, H. Hashimoto, W. M. Jolly, S. C. Piper, C. J. Tucker, R. B. Myneni, S. W. Running, Climate- driven increase in global terrestrial net primary production from 1982 to 1999, Science, 300, 1560-1563, 2003.

Winslow, J. C., E. R. Hunt, Jr., and S. C. Piper, The influence of seasonal water availability on global C3 vs C4 grassland biomass and its implications for climate change research, Ecological Modelling 163, 153-173, 2003.

Clark, D. A., S. C. Piper, C. D. Keeling, and D. B. Clark, Tropi- cal rain forest tree growth and atmospheric carbon dynamics linked to interannual temperature variation during 1984-2000, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 5852- 5857, 2003.

LeQuere, C., O. Aumont, L. Bopp, P. Bousquet, P. Ciais, R. Francey, M. Heimann, C. D. Keeling, R. F. Keeling, H. Kheshgi, P. Peylin, S. C. Piper, I. C. Prentice, and P. J. Rayner, Two decades of ocean CO2 sink and variability, Tellus, 55B, 649-656, 2003.

Piper, S. C., "Contributing Author" to I. C. Prentice ("Co- ordinating Lead Author") et al., Chapter 3. The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, pages 183-237 in Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Winslow, J.C., E.R. Hunt, Jr., and S.C. Piper, A globally appli- cable model of daily solar irradiance estimated from air tempera- ture and precipitation data, Ecological Modelling 143, 227-243, 2001.

Law, R.M., P.J. Rayner, A.S. Denning, D. Erickson, I.Y. Fung, M. Heimann, S.C. Piper, M. Ramonet, S. Taguchi, J.A. Taylor, C.M. Trudinger, and I.G. Watterson, Variations in modeled atmospheric transport of carbon dioxide and the consequences for CO2 inversions, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10(4), 783- 796, 1996.

Piper, S.C. and E.F Stewart, A gridded global data set of daily temperature and precipitation for terrestrial biospheric modeling, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10(4), 757-782, 1996.

Hunt, E.R., Jr., S.C. Piper, R. Nemani, C.D. Keeling, R.D. Otto, and S.W. Running, Global net carbon exchange and intra-annual atmospheric CO2 concentrations predicted by an ecosystem pro- cess model and three-dimensional atmospheric transport model, Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10, 431-456, 1996.

Keeling, R.F., S.C. Piper, and M. Heimann, Global and hem- ispheric CO2 sinks deduced from changes in atmospheric O2 concentration, Nature 381, 218-221, 1996.