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John Harte holds a joint professorship in the Energy and Resources Group and the Ecosystem Sciences Division of the College of Natural Resources. He received a BA in physics from Harvard University in 1961 and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1965. He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at CERN, Geneva, during 1965-66 and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, during 1966-68. During the next 5 years, he was Assistant Professor of Physics at Yale University and has been at Berkeley since 1973. Harte is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and in 1990 was awarded a Pew Scholars Prize in Conservation and the Environment. In 1993 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the California Academy of Sciences. In 1998 he was appointed a Phi Beta Kappa Distinguished Lecturer and a Distinguished Ecologist Lecturer at Colorado State University. He is the 2001 recipient of the Leo Szilard prize from the American Physical Society, the 2004 recipient of the UC Berkeley Graduate Mentorship Award, and in 2006 received a Miller Professorship. He has served on six National Academy of Sciences Committees and has authored overed 170 scientific publications, including six books, on topics including biodiversity, climate change, biogeochemisty, and energy and water resources. Harte’s research focuses on the effects of human actions on, and the linkages among, biodiversity, ecosystem structure and function, and climate. His work spans a range of scales, from plot to landscape to global, and utilizes field manipulation experiments, the study of patterns in nature, and mathematical modeling. Two specific goals are to understand the nature and causes of patterns in the distribution and abundance of species and to understand the extent to which ecosystem responses to climate change may result in feedbacks to climate that can either ameliorate or exacerbate global warming. An overarching goal of his research is to understand the interdependence of human well-being and the health of ecosystems. |
John Harte