Dr Joshua Fisher
Associate Professor
Environmental Science
Schmid College of Science and Technology
Office Location: Keck Center for Science and Engineering 225
Email: jbfisher@chapman.edu
- Scholarly Works:
- Google Scholar
- Education:
- University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Science
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
Biography
Dr. Joshua B. Fisher is a Climate Scientist focusing on terrestrial ecosystems, water,
carbon, and nutrient cycling using a combination of remote sensing, supercomputer
models, and field campaigns from the Amazon to the Arctic. He completed his undergraduate
and graduate degrees from UC Berkeley and his postdoctoral work from the University
of Oxford. Dr. Fisher was a NASA Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
for over a decade and the founding Science Lead for the ECOSTRESS mission on the International
Space Station. Dr. Fisher is now the Science Lead for Hydrosat and Associate Professor
of Environmental Science and Policy at Chapman University. With over 200 publications,
Dr. Fisher has been named one of the world’s “most influential” researchers, in the
top 0.1% of scientists with papers in the top 1% by citations for the past 5 years
in a row.
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- Doughty, C.E., Keany, J., Wiebe, B.C., Rey-Sanchez, C., Carter, K.R., Middleby, K.B., Cheesman, A.W., Goulden, M.L., da Rocha, H.R., Miller, S.D., Malhi, Y., Fauset, S., Gloor, E., Slot, M., Oliveras Menor, I.M., Crous, K.Y., Goldsmith, G.R., Fisher, J.B., 2023. Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds. Nature 621: 105-111. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06391-z