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Overview

Steven P. Hamburg is affiliated with the Environmental Defense Fund in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in areas such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, renewable energy, sustainability, economics, and mechanical engineering.

The main topics of their work include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, climate change policy and economics, carbon dioxide capture technologies, oil, gas, and environmental issues, global energy and sustainability research, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Steven P. Hamburg has authored multiple papers published in a range of scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space, 2020, Science Advances
  • Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Climate consequences of hydrogen emissions, 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Unravelling a large methane emission discrepancy in Mexico using satellite observations, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • A National Estimate of Methane Leakage from Pipeline Mains in Natural Gas Local Distribution Systems, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Their frequent co-authors include Ilissa Ocko, Mark Omara, Ritesh Gautam, David Lyon, and Daniel Zavala-Araiza. Steven P. Hamburg's research is often published in highly regarded venues such as Environmental Research Letters, Environmental Science & Technology, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Scientific Reports, and Science Advances.

Their work encompasses significant contributions within the environmental science discipline through interdisciplinary approaches incorporating elements of economics and engineering alongside atmospheric and sustainability studies.

Best Publications

  • Assessment of methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas supply chain

    Ramón A. Alvarez;Daniel Zavala-Araiza;David R. Lyon;David T. Allen

  • EFFECTS OF SOIL RESOURCES ON PLANT INVASION AND COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN CALIFORNIAN SERPENTINE GRASSLAND

    Laura Foster Huenneke;Steven P. Hamburg;Roger Koide;Harold A. Mooney

  • Greater focus needed on methane leakage from natural gas infrastructure

    Ramón A. Alvarez;Stephen Wilson Pacala;James J. Winebrake;William L. Chameides

  • High-Resolution Air Pollution Mapping with Google Street View Cars: Exploiting Big Data

    Joshua S. Apte;Kyle P. Messier;Kyle P. Messier;Shahzad Gani;Michael Brauer

  • Fixing a critical climate accounting error

    Timothy D. Searchinger;Steven P. Hamburg;Jerry Melillo;William Chameides

  • Diverse and contrasting effects of habitat fragmentation.

    George R. Robinson;Robert D. Holt;Michael S. Gaines;Steven P. Hamburg

  • Sustainable Biofuels Redux

    G. Philip Robertson;Virginia H. Dale;Otto C. Doering;Steven P. Hamburg

  • Automatic, real-time monitoring of soil moisture in a remote field area with time domain reflectometry

    W. N. Herkelrath;S. P. Hamburg;Fred Murphy

  • Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space

    Yuzhong Zhang;Ritesh Gautam;Sudhanshu Pandey;Mark Omara

  • Forest carbon storage: ecology, management, and policy

    Timothy J Fahey;Peter B Woodbury;John J Battles;Christine L Goodale

  • Reconciling divergent estimates of oil and gas methane emissions

    Daniel Zavala-Araiza;David R. Lyon;Ramón A. Alvarez;Kenneth J. Davis

  • Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming

    Ilissa Bonnie Ocko;Tianyi Sun;Drew Shindell;Michael Oppenheimer

  • The biogeochemistry of carbon at Hubbard Brook

    T. J. Fahey;T. G. Siccama;C. T. Driscoll;G. E. Likens

  • Satellite observations reveal extreme methane leakage from a natural gas well blowout

    Sudhanshu Pandey;Sudhanshu Pandey;Ritesh Gautam;Sander Houweling;Sander Houweling;Hugo Denier Van Der Gon

  • Freezing effects on carbon and nitrogen cycling in northern hardwood forest soils

    Caroline B. Nielsen;Peter M. Groffman;Steven P. Hamburg;Charles T. Driscoll

  • Super-emitters in natural gas infrastructure are caused by abnormal process conditions

    Daniel Zavala-Araiza;Ramón A Alvarez;David R. Lyon;David T. Allen

  • Invasive grass reduces aboveground carbon stocks in shrublands of the Western US

    Bethany A. Bradley;R. A. Houghton;John F. Mustard;Steven P. Hamburg

  • Estimating Soil Nitrogen and Carbon Pools in a Northern Hardwood Forest Ecosystem

    T.G. Huntington;D.F. Ryan;S.P. Hamburg

  • Effects of an intense ice storm on the structure of a northern hardwood forest

    Anne G. Rhoads;Steven P. Hamburg;Timothy J. Fahey;Thomas G. Siccama

  • Mapping Air Pollution with Google Street View Cars: Efficient Approaches with Mobile Monitoring and Land Use Regression

    Kyle P. Messier;Kyle P. Messier;Sarah E. Chambliss;Shahzad Gani;Ramon Alvarez

  • Landscape Patterns in Soil‐Plant Water Relations and Primary Production in Tallgrass Prairie

    A. K. Knapp;J. T. Fahnestock;S. P. Hamburg;L. B. Statland

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur
Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur University of New Hampshire
Daniel Zavala-Araiza
Daniel Zavala-Araiza Environmental Defense Fund
Ruth D. Yanai
Ruth D. Yanai SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Thomas G. Siccama
Thomas G. Siccama Yale University
Timothy J. Fahey
Timothy J. Fahey Cornell University
Joel D. Blum
Joel D. Blum University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Daniel J. Jacob
Daniel J. Jacob Harvard University
Mary A. Arthur
Mary A. Arthur University of Kentucky
Stephen W. Pacala
Stephen W. Pacala Princeton University
Michael Oppenheimer
Michael Oppenheimer Princeton University

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