Steven C. Wofsy
Harvard University
Room 110D
Pierce Hall
29 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-4566 (voice)
617-495-4551 (fax)
scw@io.harvard.edu
Further Information: http://www-as.harvard.edu/people/faculty/scw/
EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. B.S. (with honors) in Chemistry, 1966.
Harvard University, M.A., Chemistry, 1967.
Harvard University, Ph.D., Chemistry, 1971.
APPOINTMENTS
| 1973-1977 | Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard, Lecturer and Research Fellow on Atmospheric Chemistry (Harvard DEAS) |
| 1977 - 1982 | Associate Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, (Harvard DEAS) |
| 1982-1995 | Senior Research Fellow, (Harvard DEAS) |
| 1995 | Gordon McKay Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Harvard DEAS and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) |
| 1997 | Abbot Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, Harvard University DEAS and EPS |
Project or Lead Scientist for the following aircraft measurement programs
Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosol, and Dynamics Experiment (SPADE, NASA
ER-2, 1992-3)
Stratospheric Tracers of Atmospheric Transport (STRAT; NASA ER-2 platform, 1995-7)
CO2 Boundary-layer Regional Atmospheric Study (COBRA, UND Citation 2, 1999-2000)
CO2 Boundary-layer Regional Atmospheric Study- North American Carbon Program,
Canada-US. Preliminary Study (May - June 2003).
CO2 Boundary-layer Regional Atmospheric Study-LBA (Brazil, October 2003).
CO2 Boundary-layer Regional Atmospheric Study-Maine (COBRA, U. Wyoming King Air,
2004)
Selected Recent Publications (150 total since 1971)
Andrews, A. E., K. A. Boering, S. C. Wofsy, B. C. Daube, D. B. Jones, S. Alex, M. Loewenstein, J. R. Podolske, and S. E. Strahan. 2001. Empirical age spectra for the midlatitude lower stratosphere from in situ observations of CO2: Quantitative evidence for a subtropical "barrier" to horizontal transport, J. Geophys. Res. 106: 10257-10274.
Barford, C. C., S. C. Wofsy, M. L. Goulden, J. W. Munger, E.Hammond Pyle, S. P. Urbanski, L. Hutyra, S. R. Saleska, D. Fitzjarrald and K. Moore. 2001. Factors controlling long and short term sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in a mid-latitude forest, Science 294 (5547): 1688-1691.
Chou, W. W., S. C. Wofsy, R. C. Harriss, J. C. Lin, C. Gerbig, and G. W. Sachse. 2003. Net fluxes of CO2 in Amazônia derived from aircraft observations. J. Geophys. Res. 107 (D22), 4614, 10.1029/2001JD001295, 2002.
Daube B. C., K. A. Boering, A. E. Andrews, and S. C. Wofsy. 2002. A high-precision fast-response airborne CO2 analyzer for in situ sampling from the surface to the middle stratosphere. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol. 19: 1532-1543.
Goldstein, A. H., S. M. Fan, M. L. Goulden, J. W. Munger and S.C. Wofsy. 1996. Biogenic Olefin Emissions from a Midlatitude Forest, J. Geophys. Res. 101: 9149-9157.
Saleska, S. R.S. D. Miller, D.l M. Matross, M. L. Goulden, S. C. Wofsy, H. R. da Rocha, P.B. de Camargo, P. Crill, B. C. Daube, H. C. de Freitas, L. Hutyra, M.l Keller, V.W. H. Kirchhoff, M. Menton, J. W. Munger, E. H. Pyle, A. H. Rice, H. Silva, Carbon in Amazon forests: unexpected seasonal fluxes and disturbance-induced losses, Science 302, 1554-1557, 2003
Goulden, M. L., J. W. Munger, S.-M. Fan, B. C. Daube, and S. C. Wofsy. 1996. Measurements of carbon storage by long-term eddy covariance, Global Change Biology 2: 169-182.
J. William Munger, S.-M. Fan, P. S. Bakwin, M. L. Goulden, A. H. Goldstein, A. S. Colman, and S. C. Wofsy. 1998. Regional budgets for Nitrogen Oxides from Continental Sources: Variations of rates for oxidation and deposition with season and distance from source regions, J. Geophys. Res. 103: 8355-8368.
Potosnak, M. J., S. C. Wofsy, A. S. Denning, T. J. Conway, J.W. Munger, and D. H. Barnes. 1999. Influence of biotic exchange and combustion sources on atmospheric CO2 concentrations in New England from observations at a forest flux tower. J. Geophys. Res. 104: 9561-9569.
Gu, L., D. D. Baldocchi, S. C. Wofsy, J. W. Munger, J. J. Michalsky, S. P. Urbanski and T. A. Boden. 2003. Response of a deciduous forest to the Mt. Pinatubo eruption: Enhanced photosynthesis, Science 299: 2035-2038.
J. C. Lin, C. Gerbig, S.C. Wofsy, A.E. Andrews, B.C. Daube, K.J. Davis, and A. Grainger. 2003. The Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport Model (STILT): Quantitiative analysis of surface sources from atmospheric concentration data using particle ensembles in a turbulent atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res. 108, No. D16, 4493, 10.1029/2002JD003161, 2003.
Litvak, M., S. Miller, S. Wofsy, amd M. Goulden. 2003. Effect of stand age on whole-ecosystem CO2 exchange in the Canadian boreal forest. J. Geophys.Res. Doi: 10.1029/2001/JD000854.