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of Physics & Astronomy Phone: (440) 775-8333 email: john.scofield@oberlin.edu |
Current Office Hours (Spring 2013)
Research
Scofield is an experimental solid state physicist with applied research Interests. (You might say he has the heart of an engineer and the head of a physicist.) His past research looked at materials and electronic properties of metallic nano-wires, MOSFETs, and copper-indium-diselenide (CIS) solar cells.
His current research interests are broadly associated with energy -- energy in buildings, energy efficiency, wind and photovoltaic power, and energy policy. He has conducted detailed studies of energy consumption performance of two green buildings, the Leslie Shao-ming Sun Field Station on the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and Oberlin College's Adam Joseph Lewis Center. In 2007-8 he worked on the American Physical Society's Energy Efficiency Study and is a co-author of the final report. He has recently completed a study of energy consumption by LEED commercial buildings in which he concludes LEED certification is yielding no significant reduction in GHG emissions associated with commercial buildings.
Selected research papers may be found on Scofield's CV. A paper describing his work at Jasper Ridge may be found elsewhere on the Oberlin College website.
Teaching
PHYS-068 - Energy Technology
PHYS-111 - Introductory Electricity and Magnetism (Lab)
PHYS-212 - Modern Physics (Lab)
PHYS-268 - Environmental Physics
PHYS-410 - Statistical Mechanics
Presentations and Occasional Pieces
Testimony before the House House of Representatives on "The Science behind green building rating systems."
Slides for IEPEC presentation, "A re-examination of the NBI LEED Building Energy Consumption Study," Aug. 14, 2009, Portland, OR. (See CV for copy of the paper.)
November 6, 2003, An energy monitoring system for Stanford University's Leslie Shao-ming Sun Field Station.
Summer 2002 -- One scientist's perspective on the Lewis Center, Oberlin College Alumni Magazine
Other Links
Energy monitoring for the Leslie Shao-ming Sun Field Station on the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve at Stanford.
Oberlin Christian Fellowship (affiliated with Intervarsity)