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'''John Harte''' (born July 8, 1939) is an ecologist and Professor of the Graduate School in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/harte-john/|title=Energy and Resources Group|accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltobias/2011/08/29/climate-shock-uc-berkeley-scientist-dr-john-harte-puts-the-world-on-notice/#1e94aa5f7aaf|title=CLIMATE SHOCK: UC-Berkeley Scientist, Dr. John Harte, Puts the World on Notice|last=Tobias|first=Michael Charles|work=Forbes|access-date=2018-04-06|language=en}}</ref> His work includes investigation into a maximum entropy theory of ecology and long-term experiments on the effects of climate change on alpine ecology.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Shifting Dominance Within a Montane Vegetation Community: Results of a Climate-Warming Experiment|journal=Science|volume=267|issue=5199|pages=876–880|doi=10.1126/science.267.5199.876|pmid=17813919|year=1995|last1=Harte|first1=J.|last2=Shaw|first2=R.|bibcode=1995Sci...267..876H|s2cid=28004610}}</ref>
'''John Harte''' (born July 8, 1939) is an ecologist and Professor of the Graduate School in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/harte-john/|title=Energy and Resources Group|date=4 November 2013 |accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltobias/2011/08/29/climate-shock-uc-berkeley-scientist-dr-john-harte-puts-the-world-on-notice/#1e94aa5f7aaf|title=CLIMATE SHOCK: UC-Berkeley Scientist, Dr. John Harte, Puts the World on Notice|last=Tobias|first=Michael Charles|work=Forbes|access-date=2018-04-06|language=en}}</ref> His work includes investigation into a maximum entropy theory of ecology and long-term experiments on the effects of climate change on alpine ecology.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Shifting Dominance Within a Montane Vegetation Community: Results of a Climate-Warming Experiment|journal=Science|volume=267|issue=5199|pages=876–880|doi=10.1126/science.267.5199.876|pmid=17813919|year=1995|last1=Harte|first1=J.|last2=Shaw|first2=R.|bibcode=1995Sci...267..876H|s2cid=28004610}}</ref>


== Academic career ==
== Academic career ==
Harte received his B.A. from [[Harvard University]] in 1961 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the [[University of Wisconsin]] in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/john-harte|title=ESPM UC Berkeley|accessdate=April 4, 2018}}</ref> He was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Yale University from 1968-1973. He used his analytic abilities in 1971 to assess the impact of a proposed jetport on the Florida Everglades,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2028&context=ealr|title=The Everglades: Wilderness Versus Rampant Land Development in South Florida |accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref> the findings of which were instrumental<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sfregionalcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Jetport_-Planning-and-Politics-in-the-Big-Cypress-Swamp.pdf|title=Jetport: Planning and Politics in the Big Cypress Swamp |accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref> in the rejection of the proposal. Impressed by the impact science could have on policy and conservation, he transitioned into the study of theoretical ecology, and joined the UC Berkeley faculty as an ecologist in the Energy and Resources Group in 1973.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/harte-john/|title=Energy and Resources Group|accessdate=April 4, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/careers/working-life/profiles/page_65426.html|title=Institute of Physics|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>
Harte received his B.A. from [[Harvard University]] in 1961 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the [[University of Wisconsin]] in 1965.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/john-harte|title=ESPM UC Berkeley|accessdate=April 4, 2018}}</ref> He was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Yale University from 1968-1973. He used his analytic abilities in 1971 to assess the impact of a proposed jetport on the Florida Everglades,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2028&context=ealr|title=The Everglades: Wilderness Versus Rampant Land Development in South Florida |accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref> the findings of which were instrumental<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sfregionalcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Jetport_-Planning-and-Politics-in-the-Big-Cypress-Swamp.pdf|title=Jetport: Planning and Politics in the Big Cypress Swamp |accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref> in the rejection of the proposal. Impressed by the impact science could have on policy and conservation, he transitioned into the study of theoretical ecology, and joined the UC Berkeley faculty as an ecologist in the Energy and Resources Group in 1973.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/harte-john/|title=Energy and Resources Group|date=4 November 2013 |accessdate=April 4, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/careers/working-life/profiles/page_65426.html|title=Institute of Physics|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>
== Research and Policy Work ==
== Research and Policy Work ==
In 1990, he started the first global warming field experiment in the world,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/linhanhcat/2019/07/24/longest-running-warming-experiment/|title=The End Of The Longest-Running Warming Experiment|accessdate=September 12, 2022}}</ref> which involved many scientists and continued for nearly 30 years, making it the longest-running global warming field experiment ever undertaken. The wide-ranging, profound and copious research results on heating a subalpine meadow ecosystem were reported in numerous published scientific papers<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hartelab.weebly.com/publications.html|title=Selected Publications – Harte Lab|accessdate= September 12, 2022}}</ref> throughout the decades, and the research was described popularly, such as on ''Now with Bill Moyers'', <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/now/science/climateqanda.html|title=John Harte On Climate Change|accessdate= September 12, 2022}}</ref> and in ''Mother Jones Magazine''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/07/meadows-end/|title=Meadow’s End|accessdate= September 12, 2022}}</ref> Major findings<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/fa14/on-the-ground-colorado|title=Colorado’s Warming Meadow|accessdate= September 12, 2022}}</ref> included showing how heated subalpine meadow plots started transforming towards more arid sagebrush habitat, which involved a loss of 25% of the soil carbon to the atmosphere; by 2015 research showed that unheated meadow plots were showing the same effects but more slowly, tracking the effects of climate change in real time,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25504893/ |title=Convergent ecosystem responses to 23-year ambient and manipulated warming link advancing snowmelt and shrub encroachment to transient and long-term climate-soil carbon feedback|accessdate= September 12, 2022}}</ref> and affirming the realism of the experimental manipulation (ie, the heated plots).
In 1990, he started the first global warming field experiment in the world,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/linhanhcat/2019/07/24/longest-running-warming-experiment/|title=The End Of The Longest-Running Warming Experiment|website=[[Forbes]] |accessdate=September 12, 2022}}</ref> which involved many scientists and continued for nearly 30 years, making it the longest-running global warming field experiment ever undertaken. The wide-ranging, profound and copious research results on heating a subalpine meadow ecosystem were reported in numerous published scientific papers<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hartelab.weebly.com/publications.html|title=Selected Publications – Harte Lab|accessdate= September 12, 2022}}</ref> throughout the decades, and the research was described popularly, such as on ''Now with Bill Moyers'', <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shoppbs.pbs.org/now/science/climateqanda.html|title=John Harte On Climate Change|accessdate= September 12, 2022}}</ref> and in ''Mother Jones Magazine''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/07/meadows-end/|title=Meadow's End|accessdate= September 12, 2022}}</ref> Major findings<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/fa14/on-the-ground-colorado|title=Colorado's Warming Meadow|accessdate= September 12, 2022}}</ref> included showing how heated subalpine meadow plots started transforming towards more arid sagebrush habitat, which involved a loss of 25% of the soil carbon to the atmosphere; by 2015 research showed that unheated meadow plots were showing the same effects but more slowly, tracking the effects of climate change in real time,<ref>{{cite journal|url= https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25504893/ |title=Convergent ecosystem responses to 23-year ambient and manipulated warming link advancing snowmelt and shrub encroachment to transient and long-term climate-soil carbon feedback|year=2015 |pmid=25504893 |accessdate= September 12, 2022|last1=Harte |first1=J. |last2=Saleska |first2=S. R. |last3=Levy |first3=C. |journal=Global Change Biology |volume=21 |issue=6 |pages=2349–2356 |doi=10.1111/gcb.12831 |bibcode=2015GCBio..21.2349H |s2cid=28720264 }}</ref> and affirming the realism of the experimental manipulation (ie, the heated plots).


He has published (e.g., <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full|title=Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future|accessdate=September 12, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2795|title=Biophysical limits, women's rights and the climate encyclical|accessdate=September 12, 2022}}</ref>) on the problem of, and needed solutions to, the unsustainable global growth of human populations. He also co-authored the first free online book on climate change and policy in 2009, ''Cool the Earth, Save the Economy: Solving the Climate Crisis Is EASY'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cooltheearth.us/|title=Cool the Earth, Save the Economy: Solving the Climate Crisis Is EASY|accessdate= September 12, 2022}}</ref> most of which is still relevant to understanding the climate crisis and plausible policy avenues today.
He has published (e.g., <ref>{{cite journal|title=Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future|year=2021 |doi=10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419 |doi-access=free |last1=Bradshaw |first1=Corey J. A. |last2=Ehrlich |first2=Paul R. |last3=Beattie |first3=Andrew |last4=Ceballos |first4=Gerardo |last5=Crist |first5=Eileen |last6=Diamond |first6=Joan |last7=Dirzo |first7=Rodolfo |last8=Ehrlich |first8=Anne H. |last9=Harte |first9=John |last10=Harte |first10=Mary Ellen |last11=Pyke |first11=Graham |last12=Raven |first12=Peter H. |last13=Ripple |first13=William J. |last14=Saltré |first14=Frédérik |last15=Turnbull |first15=Christine |last16=Wackernagel |first16=Mathis |last17=Blumstein |first17=Daniel T. |journal=Frontiers in Conservation Science |volume=1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2795|title=Biophysical limits, women's rights and the climate encyclical|year=2015 |doi=10.1038/nclimate2795 |accessdate=September 12, 2022|last1=Ehrlich |first1=Paul R. |last2=Harte |first2=John |journal=Nature Climate Change |volume=5 |issue=10 |pages=904–905 |bibcode=2015NatCC...5..904E }}</ref>) on the problem of, and needed solutions to, the unsustainable global growth of human populations. He also co-authored the first free online book on climate change and policy in 2009, ''Cool the Earth, Save the Economy: Solving the Climate Crisis Is EASY'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cooltheearth.us/|title=Cool the Earth, Save the Economy: Solving the Climate Crisis Is EASY|accessdate= September 12, 2022}}</ref> most of which is still relevant to understanding the climate crisis and plausible policy avenues today.
He has also spoken out on the policy implications of his global warming research to the public on numerous occasions, notably in a filmed 2022 presentation<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/719687216|title=Global Warming - Why the Problem Is Worse Than You Thought ... And the Solution Could Be Simpler|accessdate=September 12, 2022}}</ref> to the Central Colorado Humanists.
He has also spoken out on the policy implications of his global warming research to the public on numerous occasions, notably in a filmed 2022 presentation<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/719687216|title=Global Warming - Why the Problem Is Worse Than You Thought ... And the Solution Could Be Simpler|date=12 June 2022 |accessdate=September 12, 2022}}</ref> to the Central Colorado Humanists.


==Honors and awards==
==Honors and awards==
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He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993 and the [[Leo Szilard Lectureship Award|Leo Szilard prize]] from the American Physical Society in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Harte&first_nm=John&year=2001|title=2001 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award Recipient|accessdate=April 4, 2018}}</ref>
He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993 and the [[Leo Szilard Lectureship Award|Leo Szilard prize]] from the American Physical Society in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Harte&first_nm=John&year=2001|title=2001 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award Recipient|accessdate=April 4, 2018}}</ref>


He was elected Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/john-harte-named-aaas-fellow|title=John Harte Named AAAS Fellow |accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref> further honors include elected Fellow to the California Academy of Sciences, as well as Phi Beta Kappa and University of Colorado Dis­tin­guished Lec­tureships, the UC Berke­ley Grad­u­ate Men­tor­ship Award, a Miller Pro­fes­sor­ship, and a George Polk award in investigative journalism.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/harte-john/|title=Energy and Resources Group |accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref>
He was elected Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/john-harte-named-aaas-fellow|title=John Harte Named AAAS Fellow |accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref> further honors include elected Fellow to the California Academy of Sciences, as well as Phi Beta Kappa and University of Colorado Dis­tin­guished Lec­tureships, the UC Berke­ley Grad­u­ate Men­tor­ship Award, a Miller Pro­fes­sor­ship, and a George Polk award in investigative journalism.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://erg.berkeley.edu/people/harte-john/|title=Energy and Resources Group |date=4 November 2013 |accessdate=October 6, 2022}}</ref>


== Selected publications ==
== Selected publications ==

Revision as of 04:55, 10 October 2022

John Harte (born July 8, 1939) is an ecologist and Professor of the Graduate School in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley.[1][2] His work includes investigation into a maximum entropy theory of ecology and long-term experiments on the effects of climate change on alpine ecology.[3]

Academic career

Harte received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1961 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1965.[4] He was an Assistant Professor of Physics at Yale University from 1968-1973. He used his analytic abilities in 1971 to assess the impact of a proposed jetport on the Florida Everglades,[5] the findings of which were instrumental[6] in the rejection of the proposal. Impressed by the impact science could have on policy and conservation, he transitioned into the study of theoretical ecology, and joined the UC Berkeley faculty as an ecologist in the Energy and Resources Group in 1973.[7][8]

Research and Policy Work

In 1990, he started the first global warming field experiment in the world,[9] which involved many scientists and continued for nearly 30 years, making it the longest-running global warming field experiment ever undertaken. The wide-ranging, profound and copious research results on heating a subalpine meadow ecosystem were reported in numerous published scientific papers[10] throughout the decades, and the research was described popularly, such as on Now with Bill Moyers, [11] and in Mother Jones Magazine.[12] Major findings[13] included showing how heated subalpine meadow plots started transforming towards more arid sagebrush habitat, which involved a loss of 25% of the soil carbon to the atmosphere; by 2015 research showed that unheated meadow plots were showing the same effects but more slowly, tracking the effects of climate change in real time,[14] and affirming the realism of the experimental manipulation (ie, the heated plots).

He has published (e.g., [15][16]) on the problem of, and needed solutions to, the unsustainable global growth of human populations. He also co-authored the first free online book on climate change and policy in 2009, Cool the Earth, Save the Economy: Solving the Climate Crisis Is EASY,[17] most of which is still relevant to understanding the climate crisis and plausible policy avenues today. He has also spoken out on the policy implications of his global warming research to the public on numerous occasions, notably in a filmed 2022 presentation[18] to the Central Colorado Humanists.

Honors and awards

He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1988 "for contributions to the interface between physics and ecology, including development of understanding of climate codification due to nuclear winter and to the impact of acid rain on aquatic ecosystems".[19]

He was unanimously selected in July 1990 to be one of the first recipients of the Pew Scholar Prize in Conservation and the Environment.[20]

He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993 and the Leo Szilard prize from the American Physical Society in 2001.[21]

He was elected Fellow to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014;[22] further honors include elected Fellow to the California Academy of Sciences, as well as Phi Beta Kappa and University of Colorado Dis­tin­guished Lec­tureships, the UC Berke­ley Grad­u­ate Men­tor­ship Award, a Miller Pro­fes­sor­ship, and a George Polk award in investigative journalism.[23]

Selected publications

  • Harte, J. and M. E. Harte. 2008. Cool the Earth, Save the Economy: Solving Global Warming is EASY, an online book available for free download.[24]
  • Harte, J. and R. Socolow. 1971. Patient Earth. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York. ISBN 978-0030865718
  • Harte, John. 1988. Consider a Spherical Cow: A Course in Environmental Problem Solving. University Science Books, Sausalito, California. ISBN 978-0-935702-58-3
  • Harte, John. 2011. Maximum Entropy and Ecology: A Theory of Abundance, Distribution, and Energetics. Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution. ISBN 978-0199593422
  • Harte, John. 1996. The Green Fuse: An Ecological Odyssey. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520205512
  • Harte, John. 1991. Toxics A to Z: A Guide to Everyday Pollution Hazards. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520072244
  • D. Jensen, M. Torn, and J. Harte. 1993. In Our Own Hands: A Strategy for Conserving Biodiversity in California. University of California. Press. ISBN 9780520080157

See also

References

  1. ^ "Energy and Resources Group". 4 November 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  2. ^ Tobias, Michael Charles. "CLIMATE SHOCK: UC-Berkeley Scientist, Dr. John Harte, Puts the World on Notice". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
  3. ^ Harte, J.; Shaw, R. (1995). "Shifting Dominance Within a Montane Vegetation Community: Results of a Climate-Warming Experiment". Science. 267 (5199): 876–880. Bibcode:1995Sci...267..876H. doi:10.1126/science.267.5199.876. PMID 17813919. S2CID 28004610.
  4. ^ "ESPM UC Berkeley". Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  5. ^ "The Everglades: Wilderness Versus Rampant Land Development in South Florida". Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  6. ^ "Jetport: Planning and Politics in the Big Cypress Swamp" (PDF). Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  7. ^ "Energy and Resources Group". 4 November 2013. Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  8. ^ "Institute of Physics". Retrieved April 6, 2018.
  9. ^ "The End Of The Longest-Running Warming Experiment". Forbes. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  10. ^ "Selected Publications – Harte Lab". Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  11. ^ "John Harte On Climate Change". Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  12. ^ "Meadow's End". Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  13. ^ "Colorado's Warming Meadow". Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  14. ^ Harte, J.; Saleska, S. R.; Levy, C. (2015). "Convergent ecosystem responses to 23-year ambient and manipulated warming link advancing snowmelt and shrub encroachment to transient and long-term climate-soil carbon feedback". Global Change Biology. 21 (6): 2349–2356. Bibcode:2015GCBio..21.2349H. doi:10.1111/gcb.12831. PMID 25504893. S2CID 28720264. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  15. ^ Bradshaw, Corey J. A.; Ehrlich, Paul R.; Beattie, Andrew; Ceballos, Gerardo; Crist, Eileen; Diamond, Joan; Dirzo, Rodolfo; Ehrlich, Anne H.; Harte, John; Harte, Mary Ellen; Pyke, Graham; Raven, Peter H.; Ripple, William J.; Saltré, Frédérik; Turnbull, Christine; Wackernagel, Mathis; Blumstein, Daniel T. (2021). "Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future". Frontiers in Conservation Science. 1. doi:10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419.
  16. ^ Ehrlich, Paul R.; Harte, John (2015). "Biophysical limits, women's rights and the climate encyclical". Nature Climate Change. 5 (10): 904–905. Bibcode:2015NatCC...5..904E. doi:10.1038/nclimate2795. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  17. ^ "Cool the Earth, Save the Economy: Solving the Climate Crisis Is EASY". Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  18. ^ "Global Warming - Why the Problem Is Worse Than You Thought ... And the Solution Could Be Simpler". 12 June 2022. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  19. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  20. ^ "John Harte, Curriculum Vitae, 2014" (PDF). Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  21. ^ "2001 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award Recipient". Retrieved April 4, 2018.
  22. ^ "John Harte Named AAAS Fellow". Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  23. ^ "Energy and Resources Group". 4 November 2013. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  24. ^ "Cool the Earth, Save the Economy: Solving Global Warming is EASY". Retrieved October 6, 2022.