Elisabeth Holland

General Information

ACD - CGD - TIIMES
Senior Scientist
BGS - BEACHON

Contact Information:
PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Office: FL2 - 3087
Telephone: 303-497-1433
Email: eholland@ucar.edu
Home Page - Vita

Research Focus FY08:

Elisabeth Holland leads the Biogeoscience Program (BGS) and is a lead scientist in the Bio-hydro-atmosphere interactions of Energy, Aerosols, Carbon, H2O, Organics & Nitrogen (BEACHON) project.

The Role of the Nitrogen Cycle in the Climate System: Scientists are stepping up research on the role of nitrogen in the climate system, and they are beginning to incorporate the nitrogen cycle in computer models. This talk will preview new directions in nitrogen research. Nitrogen has a direct impact on climate change, because it both affects the ability of plants to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and influences atmospheric methane concentrations. Nitrogen also has implications for air quality because nitric oxide is a necessary precursor for ozone formation.

Nitrogen in the Earth System (UCAR) Includes: Nitrogen Cycle; Human activities and the nitrogen cycle; Harmful effects of nitrogen deposition.

In The News:

Nobel Peace Prize 2007: IPCC Shares Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore (11 October 2007) - Guy Brasseur, William Collins, Elisabeth Holland, Reto Knutti, Linda Mearns, Gerald Meehl, Kevin Trenberth, additional NCAR authors: "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." IPCC Shares Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore Congratulations to the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore on their Nobel Peace Prize award. Since 1990, the IPCC has issued four reports highlighting the growing understanding of the climate change issue. Scientists both at NCAR and within our wider research community contributed significantly to these reports. Published this year, the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report leverages computer modeling that depicts global climate with unprecedented detail. Through support of the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation's supercomputing centers, and partnership with Japan's Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, the NCAR-based Parallel Climate Model and Community Climate System Model provided a wealth of scientific data to the IPCC report. Related: Article by the Associated Press, Thousands of Scientists Share Nobel....more

Nobel Peace Prize Press Release

Working Group I: Summary | NCAR Scientiests & biographies who made major contributions

Working Group II: Summary | NCAR Scientiests & biographies who made major contributions

General Information: Understanding Climate Change (UCAR)

A few of the many other press coverage links:
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Women's Magazine Online by Erin Love 8 March 2008)
- Holland lead author in IPCC fourth assessment (Aldo Leopold Leadership Program 2 February 2008)
- Gore says prize must spur action (BBC News, 13 October 2007)
- Gore Shares Peace Prize for Climate Change Work (New York Times, 13 October 2007)
- Gore and U.N. Panel Share Peace Prize (Washingtonpoast.com, 13 October 2007)
- Gore shares Nobel Peace Prize with U.N. panel (CNN.com, 12 October 2007)
- Gore and UN panel win Nobel prize (BBC News, 12 October 2007)
- Boulder's IPCC lead authors (Daily Camera, 13 October 2007)
- Local scientists part of Nobel-winning effort (Daily Camera by Laura Snider, 12 October 2007)
- NCAR Scientists & Technical Staff Share in Nobel Peace Prize with IPCC Colleagues Around the World (NCAR News Release, 11 October 2007)
- Colorado Scientists share in Nobel Prize (Rocky Mountain News, 13 October 2007)
- Boulder's IPCC lead authors (Daily Camera 13 October 2007)
- Local scientists part of Nobel-winning effort (Daily Camera by Laura Snider 12 October 2007)

 

Study looks at transportation's effects on global warming (USA Today by Doyle Rice - 9 January 2008 - article) Elisabeth Holland, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, who was not part of the study, was impressed with the research: "This is a comprehensive study," she says, "that takes a careful look at how all the emissions from the transport sector are handled." ...more

 

Diversity Work:

Standing Committee on Women in Science (SCWS): In support of the NSF strategic plan, NCAR is committed to expanding efforts to broaden participation from underrepresented groups and diverse institutions in all NCAR activities and to increase the diversity of our workforce. Elisabeth Holland was appointed the first Chair of the SCWS.

Planning for Seven Generations: Indigenous & Scientific Approaches to Climate Change (March 2008, conference website). News Articles & Press Releases:
- UCAR Press Release
- Indigenous insight (by Bob Henson)
- Native Americans, Scientists To Discuss Climate Change at Landmark Symposium (Newswise - 6 March 2008)
- Native Americans, scientists to discuss climate change at landmark symposium (Eurekalert.org by David Hosansky - 6 March 2008)
- Climate Change Threatens Native Livelihoods (NPR by Kirk Siegler - 25 March 2008)
- Bridging divides at climate change symposium (Indian Country Today by Carol Berry - 31 March 2008)

Community Service FY08:

• Session Co-chair, American American Geophysical Union, Special Session, San Francisco, California, December, 2007
• Advisory Board (2002-2007) - Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution
• Advisory Board (2005-2009) - International Advisory Board, Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System (QUEST), Natural Environment Research Council, UK
• Affiliate Professor - Forest, Rangeland & Watershed Stewardship Dept, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
• Affiliate Research Professor - Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
• Chair steering committee - American Meteorological Society's Committee on Atmospheric Biogeoscience, American Meteorological Society (AMS)
• Graduate Faculty, Environmental Population Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
• National Research Council Committee for the Board on Atmospheric Sciences, “Strategic Guidance for NSF’s Support of the Atmospheric Sciences”, 2004-2007

Scientific Talks FY08:

• Our Changing Climate from IPCC Working Group 1: The Physical Science Basis - Keynote Speaker: Planning for Seven Generations: Indigenous & Scientific Approaches to Climate Change (March 2008) webcast

Publications FY08:

Lara, L.L.S, E.A. Holland, P. Artaxo, P.B. Camargo, and L.A. Martinelli, 2008:  Land use and expanding industrialization are changing nitrogen deposition in Brazil. Biogeochemistry, in press.