About Andrew J Oliphant

Greetings! My teaching and research field within the School of the Environment is Climatology, the study of our climate system, in scales ranging from microclimates of ecosystems and cities to global climate change. My research focusses on interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, particularly carbon and water cycling and surface microclimates.  The methods for this study primarily involve field-based observations using micrometeorological instruments and has included a diverse range of field sites from the Antarctic Dry Valleys to a central Iranian desert, although has primarily focused on natural and managed ecosystems, including in urban environments. Current projects include mountain meadow carbon cycling in response to hydrologic restoration, monitoring GHG emissions from agricultural healthy soils practices, and ongoing projects on urban and microclimates of the San Francisco Bay Area and Black Rock City, NV. 

Please find links to

Research in the Bioclimate Lab

Courses I teach

the Northern California weather resources page