Benjamin Z. Houlton

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]

References

1. "Benjamin Houlton Named next Ronald P Lynch Dean of CALS". Retrieved 2020-11-10.
2. "Climate report makes agri-business a target". Retrieved 2021-07-20.
3. "New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth's bedrock". Retrieved 2021-04-30.
4. "CCould putting pebbles on beaches help solve climate change?". Retrieved 2021-04-30.
5. "An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our feet". Retrieved 2021-07-20.
6. "Fact check: The coronavirus pandemic isn't slowing climate change". USA Today. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
7. "Representation of nitrogen in climate change forecasts". Retrieved 2020-11-10.
8. Houlton, B. Z.; Morford, S. L.; Dahlgren, R. A. (2018). "Convergent evidence for widespread rock nitrogen sources in Earth's surface environment". Science. 360 (6384): 58–62. doi:10.1126/science.aan4399. PMID 29622648. S2CID 4778980. Retrieved 2020-11-10.

External links

• "Benjamin Z Houlton" at New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University