Diana H. Wall

Biographical Details
"Dr. Diana H. Wall is Professor of Biology and Director, School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University. A soil ecologist and environmental scientist she is actively engaged in research on sustaining soils and has spent 19 seasons in the Antarctic McMurdo Dry Valleys examining how global changes impact soil biodiversity, ecosystem processes and ecosystem services. Dr. Wall chaired the DIVERSITAS-International Biodiversity Observation Year-2001- 2002, the Global Litter Invertebrate Decomposition Experiment; and co-chaired the Millennium Development Goals Committee of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. A Board Member of the World Resources Institute and Island Press, she has served as President of the Ecological Society of America, the American Institute of Biological Sciences and other scientific societies. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from Utrecht University, The Netherlands, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and University Distinguished Professor at CSU. She received a B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky, Lexington."


 * Advisory Board, Leopold Leadership Program