Benjamin Z. Houlton is an environmental scientist and the Ronald. P. Lynch Dean of the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.[1] Previously he served as the director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment at University of California, Davis[2]
His research interests include global ecosystem processes,[3][4] climate change solutions,[5] and agricultural sustainability.[6] He was appointed dean in October 2020. His lab created a new benchmarking tool to calculate nitrogen's substantial impact on the global climate system used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[7] A 2018 paper found that 25% of the nitrogen available to plants comes from rock weathering.[8]
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