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] In 2025, Houlton was considered for the presidency of Iowa State University.[3][4]

His research interests include global ecosystem processes,[5][6] climate change solutions,[7] and agricultural sustainability.[8] 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.[9] A 2018 paper found that 25% of the nitrogen available to plants comes from rock weathering.[10]

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. ^ Brocker, Celia (November 4, 2025). "A Cornell University dean is Iowa State's 1st presidential finalist. What to know:". Ames Tribune. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
  4. ^ Miller, Vanessa (November 4, 2025). "Cornell University Dean Benjamin Houlton named as first ISU president finalist". The Gazette. Retrieved November 5, 2025.
  5. ^ "New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth's bedrock". Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  6. ^ "Could putting pebbles on beaches help solve climate change?". Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  7. ^ "An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our feet". Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  8. ^ "Fact check: The coronavirus pandemic isn't slowing climate change". USA Today. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
  9. ^ "Representation of nitrogen in climate change forecasts". Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  10. ^ Houlton, B. Z.; Morford, S. L.; Dahlgren, R. A. (2018). "Convergent evidence for widespread rock nitrogen sources in Earth's surface environment" (PDF). Science. 360 (6384): 58–62. doi:10.1126/science.aan4399. PMID 29622648. S2CID 4778980. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
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