David Beerling

David Beerling

David Beerling in 2014, portrait via the Royal Society
Born David John Beerling
(1965-06-21) 21 June 1965[1][2]
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater University of Wales, College of Cardiff (BSc, PhD)
Thesis The ecology and control of Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica Houtt.) and Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera Royle.) on river banks in South Wales (1990)
Doctoral advisor Ron Walter Edwards[4][5]
Doctoral students
  • Bobby Caine
  • David Carpenter
  • Christina Paparokidou
  • Rachel Thorley
  • Alex Williams[6]
Known for The Emerald Planet[7][8]
Notable awards
Spouse Juliette Dawn Fraser (m. 2011)[1]

Website

David John Beerling FRS[9] (born 21 June 1965)[2] is the Sorby Professor of Natural Sciences[11] in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences (APS) at the University of Sheffield, UK.[3][12][13][14][15][16]

Education

Beerling was educated at the University of Wales, College of Cardiff where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Botany in 1987 followed by a PhD in 1990[4] for research into the ecology and control of Japanese knotweeed and Himalayan balsam.[17]

Research

Beerling's research group investigate fundamental questions regarding the behaviour of biotic and physical systems on Earth over the past 540 million years, the Phanerozoic.[3][18][19]

Beerling is the author of Vegetation and the terrestrial carbon cycle: the first 400 million years,[20] The Emerald Planet: How plants changed Earth's history [7] and was series consultant for the BBC television series How to Grow a Planet.[21] Beerling's research has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including Science,[22][23][24] Nature,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] the Journal of Experimental Botany,[33] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B[11][34] Geological Society of America Today,[35] PNAS[36] Earth-Science Reviews[37] the Journal of Vegetation Science[38] Global Change Biology,[39] the Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology,[40] Global Biogeochemical Cycles,[41] Trends in Ecology and Evolution,[42] the Journal of Ecology[17] and Annals of Botany.[10][43]

Funding

Beerling's research has been funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC),[44] The Royal Society and The Leverhulme Trust.[16] In 2012 he was awarded a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant.[45] In 2015, he was awarded £10 million for establishing a Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation which hopes to revolutionize approaches to climate change mitigation and transform the evidence base needed to alter land management options for mitigating climate change and promoting food security, whilst safeguarding natural resources. The vision is to develop and assess the role of enhanced rock weathering as a means of safely removing large amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere to cool the planet, while also mitigating ocean acidification.[46]

The plan is to deliver these aims through Earth system modelling, lab-based controlled environment experimental investigations and large-scale field studies, embedded with social science analyses of sustainability and public engagement.

Professor Beerling FRS, Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation at the University of Sheffield, said: "I am delighted that the Leverhulme Trust is providing substantial long-term investment in our pioneering Leverhulme Centre at the University of Sheffield. It couldn’t be more timely and represents a huge vote of confidence for the outstanding team of scientists and social scientists involved from Sheffield and elsewhere.

He added: "The ambition of our new interdisciplinary Leverhulme Centre is to deliver a step-change in the development of feasible, scalable, atmospheric CO2 removal options and avert ocean acidification. We will objectively develop the science, sustainability and ethics necessary for harnessing the photosynthate energy of plants to accelerate the breakdown of silicate rocks applied to agroecosystems and ultimately sequester carbon on the sea floor. In effect, the approach uses natural reactions that have been stabilizing climate for millions of years to safely remove the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the atmosphere."[47][48]

Awards and honours

Beerling was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Earth sciences for outstanding contributions to palaeobotany and palaeoclimatology in 2001. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014, his nomination on election reads:

“ David Beerling is one of the world's leading botanists widely respected internationally for his major contributions to understanding the co-evolution of plants and the environment over the past half billion years. He is distinguished for pioneering cross-disciplinary research programmes that combine palaeobotanical, experimental and theoretical modelling approaches. His research demonstrates how experimental and fossil evidence can be blended to enhance our understanding of plant evolution and its feedbacks on past environments. His integration of ecosystem processes into a broad geosciences framework established the importance of the terrestrial biosphere in Earth's climate history.[9] ”

Personal life

Beerling is married to Juliette Fraser, with their son Joshua. Beerling is the son of Johnny Beerling.[1] and Carol Anne Beerling

References

  1. 1 2 3 BEERLING, Prof. David John. Who's Who 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 "Beerling, David 1965- (D.J. Beerling)". encyclopedia.com.
  3. 1 2 3 David Beerling's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  4. 1 2 Beerling, David John (1990). The ecology and control of two major introduced invasive plants Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica Houtt.) and Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera Royle.) on river banks in South Wales (PhD thesis). University of Wales. OCLC 557284857.
  5. ↑ "Professor Ron Edwards (1930-2007)". Archived from the original on 2014-08-19.
  6. ↑ "Beerling lab group members". Archived from the original on 2015-04-28.
  7. 1 2 Beerling, David John (2008). The Emerald Planet : How Plants Changed Earth's History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-954814-5.
  8. ↑ Falkowski, Paul (2007). "Secret life of plants: Book reviewed, The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History". Nature (Nature Publishing Group) 447 (7146): 778–779. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..778F. doi:10.1038/447778a.
  9. 1 2 3 "Professor David Beerling FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-05-02.
  10. 1 2 Chaffey, N. (2014). "Plant Cuttings: Botanists Liam Dolan and David Beerling elected to Royal Society". Annals of Botany 114 (2): iv. doi:10.1093/aob/mcu158.
  11. 1 2 Beerling, D. J. (2015). "Gas valves, forests and global change: A commentary on Jarvis (1976) 'The interpretation of the variations in leaf water potential and stomatal conductance found in canopies in the field'". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 370 (1666): 20140311. doi:10.1098/rstb.2014.0311. PMC 4360119. PMID 25750234.
  12. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  13. ↑ David Beerling's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  14. ↑ How Plants Changed Earth's History by David Beerling on YouTube
  15. ↑ Professor David Beerling discusses ancient trees on YouTube
  16. 1 2 "Professor David J Beerling F.R.S., University of Sheffield". University of Sheffield. Archived from the original on 2015-03-18.
  17. 1 2 Beerling, D. J.; Bailey, J. P.; Conolly, A. P. (1994). "Fallopia Japonica (Houtt.) Ronse Decraene". The Journal of Ecology 82 (4): 959. doi:10.2307/2261459. JSTOR 2261459.
  18. ↑ Beerling, D. J. (2015). "Newton and the ascent of water in plants". Nature Plants 1 (2): 15005. doi:10.1038/nplants.2015.5.
  19. ↑ Hansen, J.; Sato, M.; Kharecha, P.; Beerling, D.; Berner, R.; Masson-Delmotte, V.; Pagani, M.; Raymo, M.; Royer, D. L.; Zachos, J. C. (2008). "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?" (PDF). The Open Atmospheric Science Journal 2: 217. arXiv:0804.1126. Bibcode:2008OASJ....2..217H. doi:10.2174/1874282300802010217.
  20. ↑ Beerling, David John (2001). Vegetation and the terrestrial carbon cycle modelling the first 400 million years. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80196-6.
  21. ↑ David Beerling at the Internet Movie Database
  22. ↑ McElwain, J. C.; Beerling, D. J.; Woodward, F. I. (1999). "Fossil Plants and Global Warming at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary". Science 285 (5432): 1386–1390. doi:10.1126/science.285.5432.1386. PMID 10464094.
  23. ↑ Royer, D. L.; Wing, S. L.; Beerling, D. J.; Jolley, D. W.; Koch, P. L.; Hickey, L. J.; Berner, R. A. (2001). "Paleobotanical Evidence for Near Present-Day Levels of Atmospheric CO2 During Part of the Tertiary". Science 292 (5525): 2310–3. Bibcode:2001Sci...292.2310R. doi:10.1126/science.292.5525.2310. PMID 11423657.
  24. ↑ Berner, R. A.; Petsch, S. T.; Lake, J. A.; Beerling, D. J.; Popp, B. N.; Lane, R. S.; Laws, E. A.; Westley, M. B.; Cassar, N; Woodward, F. I.; Quick, W. P. (2000). "Isotope Fractionation and Atmospheric Oxygen: Implications for Phanerozoic O2 Evolution". Science 287 (5458): 1630–3. Bibcode:2000Sci...287.1630B. doi:10.1126/science.287.5458.1630. PMID 10698733.
  25. ↑ Deconto, R. M.; Galeotti, S; Pagani, M; Tracy, D; Schaefer, K; Zhang, T; Pollard, D; Beerling, D. J. (2012). "Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost". Nature 484 (7392): 87–91. Bibcode:2012Natur.484...87D. doi:10.1038/nature10929. PMID 22481362.
  26. ↑ Singarayer, J. S.; Valdes, P. J.; Friedlingstein, P; Nelson, S; Beerling, D. J. (2011). "Late Holocene methane rise caused by orbitally controlled increase in tropical sources". Nature 470 (7332): 82–5. Bibcode:2011Natur.470...82S. doi:10.1038/nature09739. PMID 21293375.
  27. ↑ Beerling, D. J.; Franks, P. J. (2010). "Plant science: The hidden cost of transpiration". Nature 464 (7288): 495–6. Bibcode:2010Natur.464..495B. doi:10.1038/464495a. PMID 20336123.
  28. ↑ Pagani, M; Caldeira, K; Berner, R; Beerling, D. J. (2009). "The role of terrestrial plants in limiting atmospheric CO2 decline over the past 24 million years". Nature 460 (7251): 85–8. Bibcode:2009Natur.460...85P. doi:10.1038/nature08133. PMID 19571882.
  29. ↑ Bowen, G. J.; Beerling, D. J.; Koch, P. L.; Zachos, J. C.; Quattlebaum, T (2004). "A humid climate state during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum". Nature 432 (7016): 495–9. Bibcode:2004Natur.432..495B. doi:10.1038/nature03115. PMID 15565152.
  30. ↑ Royer, D. L.; Osborne, C. P.; Beerling, D. J. (2003). "Carbon loss by deciduous trees in a CO2-rich ancient polar environment". Nature 424 (6944): 60–2. Bibcode:2003Natur.424...60R. doi:10.1038/nature01737. PMID 12840757.
  31. ↑ Lake, J. A.; Quick, W. P.; Beerling, D. J.; Woodward, F. I. (2001). "Plant development. Signals from mature to new leaves". Nature 411 (6834): 154. doi:10.1038/35075660. PMID 11346781.
  32. ↑ Beerling, D. J.; Osborne, C. P.; Chaloner, W. G. (2001). "Evolution of leaf-form in land plants linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the Late Palaeozoic era". Nature 410 (6826): 352–4. doi:10.1038/35066546. PMID 11268207.
  33. ↑ Beerling, D. J.; McElwain, J. C.; Osborne, C. P. (1998). "Stomatal responses of the 'living fossil' Ginkgo biloba L. To changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations". Journal of Experimental Botany 49 (326): 1603. doi:10.1093/jxb/49.326.1603.
  34. ↑ Mayle, F. E.; Beerling, D. J.; Gosling, W. D.; Bush, M. B. (2004). "Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric carbon dioxide changes since the last glacial maximum". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 359 (1443): 499–514. doi:10.1098/rstb.2003.1434. PMC 1693334. PMID 15212099.
  35. ↑ Royer, D. L.; Berner, R. A.; Montañez, I. P.; Tabor, N. J.; Beerling, D. J. (2004). "CO2 as a primary driver of Phanerozoic climate" (PDF). GSA Today 14 (3): 4. doi:10.1130/1052-5173(2004)014<4:CAAPDO>2.0.CO;2.
  36. ↑ Franks, P. J.; Beerling, D. J. (2009). "Maximum leaf conductance driven by CO2 effects on stomatal size and density over geologic time". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (25): 10343–7. Bibcode:2009PNAS..10610343F. doi:10.1073/pnas.0904209106. PMC 2693183. PMID 19506250.
  37. ↑ Royer, D. L.; Berner, R. A.; Beerling, D. J. (2001). "Phanerozoic atmospheric CO2 change: Evaluating geochemical and paleobiological approaches". Earth-Science Reviews 54 (4): 349. Bibcode:2001ESRv...54..349R. doi:10.1016/S0012-8252(00)00042-8.
  38. ↑ Beerling, D. J.; Huntley, B.; Bailey, J. P. (1995). "Climate and the distribution of Fallopia japonica: Use of an introduced species to test the predictive capacity of response surfaces". Journal of Vegetation Science 6 (2): 269. doi:10.2307/3236222. JSTOR 3236222.
  39. ↑ Brentnall, S. J.; Beerling, D. J.; Osborne, C. P.; Harland, M.; Francis, J. E.; Valdes, P. J.; Wittig, V. E. (2005). "Climatic and ecological determinants of leaf lifespan in polar forests of the high CO2 Cretaceous 'greenhouse' world". Global Change Biology 11 (12): 2177. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.001068.x.
  40. ↑ Harland, M.; Francis, J. E.; Brentnall, S. J.; Beerling, D. J. (2007). "Cretaceous (Albian–Aptian) conifer wood from Northern Hemisphere high latitudes: Forest composition and palaeoclimate". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 143 (3–4): 167. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.07.005.
  41. ↑ Beerling, D. J.; Berner, R. A. (2002). "Biogeochemical constraints on the Triassic-Jurassic boundary carbon cycle event". Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16 (3): 10–11. Bibcode:2002GBioC..16.1036B. doi:10.1029/2001GB001637.
  42. ↑ Beerling, D.; Francis, J. (2000). "Back to the future for plant and ecosystem evolution". Trends in Ecology & Evolution 15 (11): 442. doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(00)01996-0.
  43. ↑ Llorens, L.; Osborne, C. P.; Beerling, D. J. (2009). "Water-use responses of 'living fossil' conifers to CO2 enrichment in a simulated Cretaceous polar environment". Annals of Botany 104: 179. doi:10.1093/aob/mcp108. PMC 2706734. PMID 19447810.
  44. ↑ "UK Government Grants awarded to David Beerling by NERC". Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 2015-04-15.
  45. ↑ "ERC Advanced Grants". European Research Council. Archived from the original on 2015-04-28.
  46. ↑ http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate2882.html
  47. ↑ https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/climate-change-mitigation-leverhulme-1.531199
  48. ↑ https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/leverhulme-trust-invests-%C2%A340-million-new-uk-centres-innovative-research
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