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37
Citations
6833
World Ranking
8811
National Ranking
3157

Overview

J. Elliott Campbell is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and renewable energy.

The scientist's recent publications span various topics related to environmental dynamics and sustainability. Notable papers include:

  • Energy production and water savings from floating solar photovoltaics on global reservoirs (2023, Nature Sustainability)
  • Energy and water co-benefits from covering canals with solar panels (2021, Nature Sustainability)
  • Global Atmospheric OCS Trend Analysis From 22 NDACC Stations (2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • Response to Comments on "Recent global decline of CO 2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis" (2021, Science)
  • Quantifying the Farmland Application of Compost to Help Meet California's Organic Waste Diversion Law (2020, Environmental Science & Technology)

Campbell's work frequently appears in journals such as Nature Sustainability and Environmental Science & Technology, with other contributions in Science and the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

The researcher collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Brandi McKuin
  • Brendan P. Harrison
  • Yubin Jin
  • Shijie Hu
  • Alan D. Ziegler

Their main fields of study revolve around environmental science, particularly focusing on subfields like global and planetary change, atmospheric science, industrial and manufacturing engineering, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and nature and landscape conservation.

Main topics of Campbell's work include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, fish ecology and management studies, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, climate variability and models, municipal solid waste management, environmental justice and health disparities, and solar thermal and photovoltaic systems.

Best Publications

  • Biomass energy: the scale of the potential resource.

    Christopher B. Field;J. Elliott Campbell;David B. Lobell

  • The global potential of bioenergy on abandoned agriculture lands.

    J Elliott Campbell;David B Lobell;Robert C Genova;Christopher B Field

  • Greater transportation energy and GHG offsets from bioelectricity than ethanol

    J. E. Campbell;D. B. Lobell;C. B. Field

  • A coupled model of the global cycles of carbonyl sulfide and CO2: A possible new window on the carbon cycle

    Joe Berry;Adam Wolf;J. Elliott Campbell;Ian Baker

  • Production of Biodiesel and Biogas from Algae: A Review of Process Train Options

    Patrick E. Wiley;J. Elliott Campbell;Brandi McKuin

  • Reviews and syntheses: Carbonyl sulfide as a multi-scale tracer for carbon and water cycles

    Mary E. Whelan;Mary E. Whelan;Sinikka T. Lennartz;Teresa E. Gimeno;Richard Wehr

  • Carbon isotopes for estimating soil decomposition and physical mixing in well-drained forest soils

    Peter M. Acton;James F. Fox;J. Elliott Campbell;Harry D. Rowe

  • Energy and water co-benefits from covering canals with solar panels

    Brandi L McKuin;Brandi L McKuin;Andrew Zumkehr;Jenny Ta;Roger Bales

  • Historical U.S. cropland areas and the potential for bioenergy production on abandoned croplands.

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  • Increased estimates of air-pollution emissions from Brazilian sugar-cane ethanol

    C. C. Tsao;J. E. Campbell;M. Mena-Carrasco

  • Global bioenergy potential from high-lignin agricultural residue

    Venugopal Mendu;Tom Shearin;J. Elliott Campbell;Jozsef Stork

  • When renewable portfolio standards meet cap-and-trade regulations in the electricity sector: Market interactions, profits implications, and policy redundancy

    C.-C. Tsao;J.E. Campbell;Yihsu Chen

  • Carbonyl sulfide exchange in soils for better estimates of ecosystem carbon uptake

    Mary E. Whelan;Mary E. Whelan;Timothy W. Hilton;Joseph A. Berry;Max Berkelhammer

  • Cosmic ray induced neutron background sources and fluxes for geometries of air over water, ground, iron, and aluminum

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  • Global gridded anthropogenic emissions inventory of carbonyl sulfide

    Andrew Zumkehr;Tim W. Hilton;Mary Whelan;Steve Smith

  • Estimating the health benefits from natural gas use in transport and heating in Santiago, Chile.

    Marcelo Mena-Carrasco;Estefania Oliva;Pablo Saide;N Scott

  • Tropical sources and sinks of carbonyl sulfide observed from space

    N. Glatthor;M. Höpfner;I. T. Baker;J. Berry

  • Estimate of carbonyl sulfide tropical oceanic surface fluxes using Aura Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer observations

    Le Kuai;John R. Worden;J. Elliott Campbell;Susan S. Kulawik

  • Growing season eddy covariance measurements of carbonyl sulfide and CO2 fluxes: COS and CO2 relationships in Southern Great Plains winter wheat

    D.P. Billesbach;J.A. Berry;U. Seibt;K. Maseyk

  • Vertical profiles of biospheric and fossil fuel-derived CO2 and fossil fuel CO2: CO ratios from airborne measurements of Δ14C, CO2 and CO above Colorado, USA

    Heather D. Graven;Britton B. Stephens;Thomas P. Guilderson;Thomas P. Guilderson;Teresa L. Campos

  • The potential for local croplands to meet US food demand

    Andrew Zumkehr;J Elliott Campbell

  • Peak growing season gross uptake of carbon in North America is largest in the Midwest USA

    Timothy W. Hilton;Mary E. Whelan;Mary E. Whelan;Andrew Zumkehr;Sarika Kulkarni

  • Assessing the regional impacts of Mexico City emissions on air quality and chemistry

    M. Mena-Carrasco;M. Mena-Carrasco;G. R. Carmichael;J. E. Campbell;D. Zimmerman

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Stephen A. Montzka
Stephen A. Montzka National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Lara M. Kueppers
Lara M. Kueppers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Philippe Peylin
Philippe Peylin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ian Baker
Ian Baker Colorado State University
David B. Lobell
David B. Lobell Stanford University
Christopher B. Field
Christopher B. Field Stanford University
Fabienne Maignan
Fabienne Maignan French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Donald R. Blake
Donald R. Blake University of California, Irvine

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