Elliott Campbell Assistant Professor School of Engineering & Sierra Nevada Research Institute University of California, Merced Contact: ecampbell3@ucmerced.edu, 209.631.9312

Education BS, Stanford, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1998 MS, Stanford, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000 PhD, University of Iowa, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2007 Postdoc, Carnegie Institution, 2008

Welcome to my faculty website.  I work in the area of energy science and engineering with a focus on sustainability.  My current research falls in the emerging interdisciplinary domain of biofuels sustainability, exploring the interaction of biogeochemical cycles and human energy consumption.  Research activities in my lab include parallel computing, field, and laboratory experiments with an emphasis on atmospheric modeling, land use analysis, and life-cycle optimization. 

Fox, J. F., Campbell, J. E. (2010). Terrestrial carbon disturbance from mountaintop mining increases lifecycle emissions for clean coal. Environmental Science & Technology, doi:10.1021/es903301j. Media.

Campbell JE, Lobell DB, Field CB (2009) Greater transportation energy and GHG offsets from bioelectricity than ethanol, Science, 324(5930), 1055-1057. Paper, Graphic, Podcast

Campbell JE, Carmichael GR, Chai T, Mena-Carrasco M, Tang Y, Blake DR, Blake NJ, Vay SA, Collatz GJ, Baker I, Berry JA, Montzka SA, Sweeney C, Schnoor JL, Stanier CO (2008), Photosynthetic control of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide during the growing season, Science, 322: 1085-1088.  Paper, Media.

Campbell JE, Carmichael GR, Tang Y, Chai T, Vay SA, Choi Y, Sachse GW, Singh HB, Woo JH, Vukovich JM, Streets DG, Schnoor JL, Stanier CO (2007), Analysis of anthropogenic CO2 signal in ICARTT observations using a regional chemical transport model and its adjoint, Tellus-B, 59(2), 199-210.

Grants and Awards

NSF/CAREER (PI), 2010-2014.

DOE/NICCR (PI), 2010-2011.

Sandra H. Barkan Research Mentor Award, 2007

NASA/GSRF (Fellow), 2007

Group

Xianyu Yang, PhD student, 2010- present, Carbonyl sulfide analysis of global and regional primary production. 

Chi-Chung Tsao, PhD student, 2009-present, Atmospheric pollution from biofuels production.

Patrick Wiley, PhD student, 2009-present, Appropriate technology approaches to algae biofuels.

Elliott Block, Undergraduate research assistant, 2009, Land-use impacts of tropical biofuels.