Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Alan Townsend is a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder. His lab group studies how Earth’s major biogeochemical cycles are changing and what it means for the ecosystems on which we all depend.
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