Professor Dan Binkley
Professor, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University
Dan was a speaker at the Soil Carbon Sequestration Summit co-hosted by the US Studies Centre and the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Sydney in February 2011.
Dan has worked on ecosystem productivity and nutrient cycling for 30 years, blending applied and basic perspectives in his research and teaching. Some of the applied perspectives have focused on sustaining the productivity of forests by sustaining soil fertility – and providing useful information in textbooks and courses for people who manage forests, and working with collaborative citizen groups on forest restoration at landscape scales. His basic research perspectives include long-term changes in vegetation and soils (along rivers, with tree invasion of tundra as climate warms, and in common-garden experiments), and fundamental controls on ecosystem productivity over time (using plantations of Eucalyptus species in Hawaii and Brazil as model systems).
Dan has been at Colorado State University for 25 years, teaching courses on a wide range of topics in ecology and sustainable forestry. He is the past Director of CSU's cross-campus Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, and the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. Previously, Dan was an assistant professor at Duke University.
