Craig D. Idso

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Craig D. Idso is the founder and chairman of the board of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. He is the brother of Keith E. Idso and son of Sherwood B. Idso.

Dr. Idso received his B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, his M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and his Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University, where he studied as one of a small group of University Graduate Scholars.

Dr. Idso's current research focus is on carbon sequestration, but he remains actively involved in several other aspects of global and environmental change, including climatology and meteorology, along with their impacts on agriculture. Dr. Idso has published scientific articles on issues related to data quality, the growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University. In addition, he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University, and in Physical Geography at Mesa and Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges.

Dr. Idso is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences, Association of American Geographers, Ecological Society of America, and The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

[edit] Selected Publications

CD Idso, SB Idso, RC Balling. The urban CO 2 dome of Phoenix, Arizona, Physical Geography, 1998

DE Stooksbury, CD Idso, KG Hubbard. Effects of data gaps on the calculated monthly mean maximum and minimum temperatures in the continental United States: a spatial and temporal study, Journal of Climate, Vol. 12, no. 5 II, pp. 1524-1533. 1999 [Abstract]

CD Idso, SB Idso, BA Kimball, HS Park, JK Hoober, et al. Ultra-enhanced spring branch growth in CO2-enriched trees: can it alter the phase of the atmosphere's seasonal CO2 cycle?, Environmental and Experimental Botany, 2000

CD Idso, SB Idso, RC Balling Jr. An intensive two-week study of an urban CO 2 dome in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Atmospheric Environment, 2001

SB Idso, CD Idso, RC Balling Jr. Seasonal and diurnal variations of near-surface atmospheric CO2 concentration within a residential sector of the urban CO2 dome of Phoenix, AZ, USA, Atmospheric Environment, 2002