STEPHEN P. LONG

Professional Experience:

Present appointment: Robert Emerson Professor, Departments of Crop Sciences and of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. 99-present.

Lecturer (75-78), Lecturer with tenure (78-87), Senior Lecturer (87-88), Reader (88-90), Full Professor (91-98; 10% appointment from 99, terminating 10 Jan 02) also Director of Environmental Biology Research (96-98), Department of Biology, University of Essex, UK.

Other Appointments and Fellowships: Smithsonian Institution Fellowship (1989); Gastprofessor, University of Vienna (1989/90); Visiting Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory (1992); Visiting Professor, Center for Primary Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University (1993); Faculty Fellow, NSF National Center for Supercomputer Applications (2001-); Faculty, Institute for Genomic Biology UIUC (2004-).

Education:

Ph.D. Environmental Plant Physiology, University of Leeds (UK) 1976 (adviser: H.W. Woolhouse) (University Scholarship; 1972-1975).

B.Sc. (Honours, 1 st class) Agricultural Botany, University of Reading (UK) 1972 (University Prize, 1972)

Journal Editor: Chief and Founding Editor, Global Change Biology (1994-); Section Editor, Plant Cell & Environment (1989-); Subject Editor, Photosynthesis Research (2000-4); Editorial Board, Journal of Ecology (1985-90), Editorial Advisory Board, Tree Physiology (1997-).

Research Interests: Molecular, physiological and mathematical analysis of limitations to plant production. Environmental physiology of C 4 plants. The effects of global change on photosynthesis in natural and crop ecosystems, and feedback mechanisms. Measurement, analysis and mechanistic modeling of photosynthesis in vivo.

Research Award Panels: NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Program (2004); NSF Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology Panel (2003; 2005); USDA-NRICGP Plant Response to the Environment Panel (1999, 2004 Panel Manager); Natural Environment Research Council – UK (NERC) Terrestrial Life Sciences (1990-3); Agriculture and Food Research Council - UK Plants and Environment (1989-3); NERC Terrestrial Initiative Global Environmental Research-IV.1 Consortium Leader (1993-7).

Research Co-ordination: Co-ordinator, U.N.E.P. Project Primary Productivity of Tropical Grasslands (7 centres in 7 countries; 1986-1992); Working Group Leader, EU-COST, The Effects of Global Climate Change on European Grasslands (24 groups throughout EU;1994-); Project Head: SOYFACE Increasing the Competitiveness of Soybean under Global Atmospheric Change – Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research (15 research laboratories, 2000-2005); Research Consortium IV.1 in the UK-NERC TIGER programme (9 Universities and Research Institutes within the UK; 1993-); Adviser and Assessor of Research Programmes for UNEP Outer Limits Programme, IAEA Amazonia Project, IFS, UK BBSRC Research Institutes Review Programme and EEC Biomass Programme.

Research Advisory Groups: N SF National Phytotron Review Group (2001); DOE Terrestrial Environmental Research Facility Planning Committee (2000-3); Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council - UK Plant & Microbial Sciences Network Group (1997-9); NERC TFS (1992-5); Adviser to European Union (DGXII) Biomass Crops Programme (1993,1998); International Atomic Energy Agency – Food and Agricultural Organization Joint Commission Amazonia-1 Project (1989); United Nations Environment Programme Ad-hoc advisory groups on Primary Production in Tropical Ecosystems (1983,1986, 1988).

Invited plenary lecturer: (last 5 years): 11 th International Botanical Congress (Vienna, 05); Atmospheric Pollution and Global Change 6 th International Meeting (Tsukuba, 04); 65 th Easter School – Increasing Productivity in the 21 st Century (Nottingham, 04); National Biology Conference (Kuala Lumpur, 03); ABC Conference (Tokyo, 03); American Society of Plant Biologists (Denver, 02), International Photosynthesis Congress (Brisbane 01); Brazilian Society of Plant Physiology

(Ilheus, 01); Modeling Crop Responses to Environmental Change (CIMMYT, 01); 3 rd International FACE workshop (Tsukuba, 00).

 

Synergistic Activities

1) Listed by ISI Web of Science as one of the 250 most “HighlyCited” authors in “Plant and Animal” Biology (http://isi17.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi?DestApp=HCR&Func=Frame)

2)Teaching initiatives: Author to American Society of Plant Biology undergraduate text “Plants, Genes & Agriculture”; initiated and directed access program for mature student entry to Biology via the local community college at the University of Essex a model now broadly adapted in the UK; initiated a link and summer Undergraduate Research Experience for students from Central State University OH (an HBCU) at UIUC.

3) Public Awareness of Science: 2004/5 activities include presentation and Q&A for a Congressional Briefing on “Climate Change and Agriculture – Threats and Opportunities” in DC, reports on my groups research in the ScienceNow section of Science and News & Views Section of Nature, in the Washington Post, USA Today, National Geographic and MSNBC; talks to a Rotary Club, an Exchange Club, 3 UIUC Extension Groups, and 1 Alumni group; 3 conducted tours of research in progress and field experiments at UIUC (23- 125 participants; ranging from Junior High to Agribusiness groups) .

4) Listed among the “Top 20 Authors Overall” on the topic of Global Warming by ISI Essential Science Indicators, based on the number of citations to peer reviewed journal articles in Science Citation Index (www.esi-topics.com/index)

Related Publications (from 235 peer reviewed journal articles, book articles and books)

Beale, C. V. & Long, S. P. 1995 Can Perennial C-4 Grasses Attain High Efficiencies Of Radiant Energy-Conversion In Cool Climates. Plant Cell And Environment 18, 641-650.

Beale, C. V. & Long, S. P. 1997 Seasonal dynamics of nutrient accumulation and partitioning in the perennial C-4-grasses Miscanthus x giganteus and Spartina cynosuroides. Biomass & Bioenergy 12, 419-428.

Beale, C. V., Morison, J. I. L. & Long, S. P. 1999 Water use efficiency of C-4 perennial grasses in a temperate climate. Agricultural And Forest Meteorology 96, 103-115.

Clifton-Brown, J.C., Long, S.P., Jørgensen, U., (2001). Miscanthus productivity. In: Jones, M.B. & Walsh, M. (eds). Miscanthus for Energy and Fibre. London, James & James, 46-67. Heaton, E., Voigt, T. & Long, S. P. 2004 A quantitative review comparing the yields of two candidate C-4 perennial biomass crops in relation to nitrogen, temperature and water. Biomass & Bioenergy 27, 21-30.

Heaton EA, Clifton-Brown J, Voigt T, Jones MB, Long SP (2004).Miscanthus for Renewable Energy Generation: European Union Experience and Projections for Illinois. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 9, 433-451.

Long S.P., Ainsworth E.A., Leakey A.D.B. & Morgan P.B. (2005) Global food insecurity. Treatment of major food crops with elevated carbon dioxide or ozone under large-scale fully open-air conditions suggests recent models may have overestimated future yields. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 360, 2011-2020.

Long SP, Ainsworth EA, Rogers A, Ort DR (2004) Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide: Plants FACE the future. Annual Reviews of Plant Biology 55, 591-628.

Long, S.P., Beale, C.L. (2001) Resource capture by Miscanthus. In: Jones, M.B. & Walsh, M. (eds). Miscanthus for Energy and Fibre. London, James & James, 10-20.

Naidu, S. L., Moose, S. P., Al-Shoaibi, A. K., Raines, C. A. & Long, S. P. 2003 Cold tolerance of C-4 photosynthesis in Miscanthus x giganteus: Adaptation in amounts and sequence of C-4 photosynthetic enzymes. Plant Physiology 132, 1688-1697.