Robert Howarth
Howarth is chair of the International SCOPE Biofuels Project. In April 2009, the Project released their first report, a rapid assessment overview of how biofuels affect global change and environmental quality. Howarth is the lead editor of this 17-chapter report, which was prepared by 75 scientists from 21 nations. The full report is available at http://cip.cornell.edu/biofuels/
David R Atkinson Professor in Ecology & Environmental Biology
Cornell University
Dr. Robert Howarth chairs the International SCOPE Biofuels Project, is President of the Coastsal & Estuarine Research Federation, directs the Agrictural Ecosystems Program at Cornell University, and represents the State of New York on the science and technical advisory committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program. Howarth is also the Founding Editor of the journal "Biogeochemistry" and served as Editor-in-Chief from 1983 to 2004.
Howarth's research program is focused broadly on the following topics: the interaction of climate and land-use as regulators of nutrient flows from large watersheds; the effects of biofuels on the environment; deposition of nitrogen gases, particularly near vehicle and agricultural emission sources; human alteraton of global and regional nitrogen and phosphorus cycles; complex biogeochemical feedbacks that occur in estuaries during eutrophication; and the interaction of biotic, physical and biogeochemical factors as controls on nitrogen fixation.
Details are available at the web site for the Howarth/Marino lab: http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/howarth/